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credit card debt.  just kidding.

seashells, any and all--i have far too many

vintage christmas decorations, especially glass ball ornaments and bottle-brush trees from the 50s, and anything from occupied japan--i am obsessed w/christmas

vintage tablecloths from the 50s

this 50s/60s glassware made my a california designer called dorothy thorpe--i like the clear crystal with wide silver band pattern--very mid-century mod

i don't know if this is really a collection, because i use much of it every day, but indian block-printed textiles from this lady's shop in laguna beach. 

I used to collect really nice vinyl and porcelein dolls.  They were like art to me.  I used to want to be a doll designer.  I saved up all year for Courtney (she was $800!  I was in fourth grade!!  What was wrong with me???)  I guess I've always had expensive taste.

I'm too much of a neat freak to truly 'collect' anything.  But I do love seashells and anything beachy (paintings, sea glass, sand dollars, sand from different beaches, ect).  I just incorporate it into the decor of my house.  

I would also love expand my art collection (blubirde, you need to sell me some of yours!!).

I come from a family of collectors. I collect Gone With the Wind memorabila... not modern stuff but things from 1930s when the book and the movie just came out. I also collect Limoges pieces.

My mom also collects Limoges, Herend pieces, and antique linen hand towels. My dad collects fountain pens... he has an ungodly amount of rare Mont Blancs as well as other brands only pen afficiandos would know. My grandfather collects guns. And my youngest sister collects all things with hippos on them.

NylaBelle wrote:

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.ETA: I also have a closeted collection of Hello Kitty paraphenalia.  I don't know where to put. Right now, it's packed away.  -- Edited by NylaBelle at 16:39, 2005-07-01

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I collect dishes and kitchen stuff from almost every era.  My favorite is the kitchy stuff from the 50's and 60's.  However, I also have a lot of stuff from the 20's and 30's that I've inherited from my Grandmother and her sisters.  My best friend and I go to antique glass shows all the time and it is so funny because we will be the only people there under 60 years old.  All the ladies think it is so cool that we are into it.

I also collect rock and roll memerobelia, mostly posters and handbills.

I'm really not much of a collector. I am also a dusting hater, so mostly I look at things and think, "another dust collector".  I do have a small collection of vintage costume jewelry, but at least it's wearable *s*

I guess I don't understand collecting stuff. I'd much rather have, say, one nice piece of Yelloware, than a hundred - after I have one item, I then like to start hunting something entirely different - say, Carnival glass (though I could probably go nuts over that stuff if I really tried).  That way my home gets filled with a lot of different, beautiful things, instead of a a bunch of similar stuff.

THOSE ARE TOOO CUTE, halleybird, I LOVE THEM! Very unique and different.

halleybird wrote:

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When I was younger, I collected glass slippers....so I have 7 or 8 little glass shoes. I don't collect them anymore, though. My husband and I collect hand-drawn Disney art; we have one drawn for us everytime we go to Disneyland. My parents both collect Disney production cels, which I would love to do, but they are way out of my price range. Someday I will inherit them, though. I also collect dog stuff for my house -- not the cutesy, porcelain-sculpture kind, but funkier stuff like this:

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