Idea written by Brandon Sweetwood: I want to start a collection but i don’t know what to collect? any ideas?
i want to collect something small but not to small, not like bouncy balls, more like cards or something about that size or bigger
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Answer by Lynn Bodoni
First, figure out what makes you happy. I like owls and cats and books. So I naturally buy a lot of books, and I buy owl and cat figurines, and I have four cats in my household, which my husband says is quite enough, thank you very much. If you just start collecting stuff for the sake of collecting it, it won’t give you pleasure.
And if you like regular playing cards, there are plenty of people who collect them. Some people are happy to just get one card out of a deck, and so they swap cards with other collectors. I prefer to collect odd decks. For instance, I have a couple of decks that are round, not rectangular, and I have a deck of coffin shaped cards, and also a deck of heart shaped cards. And I have some regular decks, too, to actually play cards with.
Answer by Dave B.
Collecting something that doesn’t hold personal interest for you will never be satisfying. This makes sense if you think about it. Why would you want a collection of things you don’t like sitting around your house?
The exact answer, then, lies with you. For me, I like to collect things that are related to my other hobbies–fishing, technology, and woodworking. I collect mostly antique sporting goods, vintage computer technology, and antique tools. I have different rules for what I’ll allow myself to collect; obviously, I won’t grab any fishing lure or discarded keyboard and pile them in my house.
For the fishing stuff, I collect just enough to make a nice display on the wall. I have a few lures, a couple of reels, some old bamboo rods, that type of thing. Rather than cluttering up my house and draining my wallet, the collection actually makes my house look better–and if I wanted to sell the stuff all together as decoration, it’s actually worth a lot more than the stuff is individually. I only buy a new piece when it will really add something, or when it will be a better replacement for an old piece. Then, I sell the old piece, so things don’t get out of hand.
The computer/electronic stuff is kind of the same way, but for purposes of telling stories, rather than just to look good. Every piece I buy has a specific purpose, and represented a major technological achievement in its time. This lets me tell stories of “how it used to work” to people that will listen. Whenever possible, I like the items I collect to still be in operable condition.
The tools are part decoration, and part function. I buy only tools that are still useable–and I use them! I love woodworking, and the goal is to eventually have a shop that will allow me to build things the traditional way–with no electricity. The other rule I set for myself is that everything has to be at least as old as my dad, who was born in 1953; no buying newer hand tools and mixing them in with the old stuff allowed. So far, I’m about 40% of the way to having a fully functional shop.
Anyway, while you decide what to collect, I have a couple pieces of advice to help you along. Firstly, do NOT collect anything that was made specifically to be collectable. No collectible plates, no Beanie Babies, none of that crap. Anything made to be collected will never be worth anything, and there will be millions of collections out there identical to yours.
Secondly, collect something that has no end in sight. Don’t collect something that has a definite “series,” where you know you have X pieces left to go to complete your collection. It is NOT fun to get down to the last two or three items and have to scour the internet for them, and again, your completed collection will look just like thousands of others.
Thirdly, don’t buy commercially-available “sets” to add to your collection. This takes all the fun out of collecting, which is finding unique pieces that YOU like. Collecting coins and then buying those dumb cardboard sheets with all the different coins mounted in them from a given year is a waste of time. Buying a set called “Stamps from Indonesia” to add to your stamp collection robs you of the fun of researching, identifying, and tracking down the individual stamps. You don’t buy a meal at Burger King and call it cooking, so don’t buy pre-made sets and call it collecting.
Those are the don’ts. Here are a couple of dos:
Think about collecting based on color or number. This opens the hobby up in a whole new way–which can also save you a lot of expense. Displaying a collection of stuff you’ve found that’s just the right shade of green can look really cool. Or, how about a collection of “threes?” Basically, a large collection consisting of mini-collections of three pieces each. Three coins, three seashells, three antique car keys, three kinds of fortune cookies. Just look around you, and the right idea will present itself.
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