What do you Collect?

I thought it might be good to have a thread like this. Might help some members find homes for stuff they find while scrapping and the likes. I'll start with mine

Skill toys, mainly yoyos, but I have a few kendamas, and I'm starting to branch into other ones. I'm planning to purchase astrojax or a rubiks cube to learn next.
Books, I don't collect collectors editions, basically just books I enjoy reading. I am trying to get a full set of all the James Patterson books, and John Grisham.
Pokemon Cards, I don't hunt after these hard, but if I find them cheap someplace I always pick them up, been collecting these since I was a wee lad
Coins, basically I only collect what I get in my change, I haven't done any coin roll hunting yet, although I'd like to try it sometime soon.

Most Importantly....

SCRAP METAL!



I'd like to hear from all you folks what you collect

Video games mostly but I have started collecting some smaller items like unique shot glasses for display or bar use . Micro machines and battle beasts as far as older small toys go . I also collect military patches lapels and pins , also small easy to store .

I also collect stamps , I don't seek them out for purchase but they seem to find me somehow . I have a decent sized comic collection from when I was younger , love the golden age war propaganda stuff . But I don't seek them out seems like another item that finds me . as much as I do like paper items like these I paused collecting paper products as they do get heavy fast and I'm always afraid I'm going to bend or rip them somehow .

I always think it's interesting to see what people collect . i know a guy who collects pogs , that's a interesting paper collectable . Wonder if they will make a come back like slap bracelets and beanie baby's

Originally Posted by Longhairboy

I thought it might be good to have a thread like this. Might help some members find homes for stuff they find while scrapping and the likes. I'll start with mine

Skill toys, mainly yoyos, but I have a few kendamas, and I'm starting to branch into other ones. I'm planning to purchase astrojax or a rubiks cube to learn next.
Books, I don't collect collectors editions, basically just books I enjoy reading. I am trying to get a full set of all the James Patterson books, and John Grisham.
Pokemon Cards, I don't hunt after these hard, but if I find them cheap someplace I always pick them up, been collecting these since I was a wee lad
Coins, basically I only collect what I get in my change, I haven't done any coin roll hunting yet, although I'd like to try it sometime soon.

Most Importantly....

SCRAP METAL!

I'd like to hear from all you folks what you collect

I don't really collect anything except ewaste.
My son was 4 when the Pokémon craze hit Nashville around 1994. We used to go twice a week to Books A Million for the Pokémon League. He played the game, and earned all of his badges. While he played the card game, I traded cards. We had a blast! I still have binders of the first 7 complete decks and a 3" binder full of extras. All of the extras are from the early to mid 90's. Let me know if you're interested in any or if there are certain ones you might be looking for.
I'll trade you a holographic Charizard for a dual large socket mother board and 1 Pentium Pro. HA!

Football cards, baseball cards, hockey cards. Mostly football tho. Thier value crashed in 2008 also. Don't do it as an investment at all. Just for the fun of it. I like anything to do with choo choo trains also. Bought some stuff from Sledge a few months ago that he found in a clean out.

Beer cans...

I like to drink from the cans; crush them and then turn them in at the scrap yard. Buy 12-
30 packs and the 13th is free from scrapping the first dozen 30 packs.

Originally Posted by sdakscrapper

I collect beer cans. I have been collecting them since I was in about the third grade back in the early eighties. I've got probably about 1500 different beer cans now. It has grown into a monster so I try to focus more on the older cans that aren't so easy to find any longer. I have a couple of nice cone tops that a buddy of mine found in the wall of a house that he was doing a demo on before a remodeling project.

Originally Posted by Pnutfarmer

I collect beer cans too. I have over 1000 and a few cone tops. Coins since I was a kid. Recently started an old bicycle collection that consists of what I find at the scrap yard.

Arrowheads, but only the ones I find in my fields and I don't sell them.

Guns, especially odd actions and antiques. Old ammo and boxes.

Old signs and car tags to decorate my shop.

I don't collect beer cans, but I ran across a box of beer cans at a garage sale and took a chance. I paid $1 for six cans. Three of them were Silver Bar Premium Ale cans. I could not find them on e-bay so I listed the best one for auction...



It sold for a bit more than my $1 investment ($285). The guy who bought it told me that I had probably found one of the best cans out there. The other two were in crappier shape, and they sold for $40 and $21. I had handed the lady a card at the garage sale and she called me back for work. When I got there I told her the story of the cans and she said she had another one that I bought for $10 (at that point the cans had not sold and the bids were only up to $50 at that point). The one I got then I wound up selling fo $110. So... although I do not collect, beer cans have been very good to me.