Collectibles

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

Do you collect things as a hobby? Do you have anything valuable?

I envy people who have rare items (toys, baseball cards, comic books, coins, etc.) and have kept them in good condition. They can sell them if they ever need some emergency cash. I know a guy who recently sold his Reggie Jackson baseball card for about $150. Some of the Hot Wheels cars I destroyed/lost as a kid are worth hundreds of dollars today—some are even worth thousands of dollars. Believe me, if I knew about people’s sense of nostalgia, I would’ve keep some of my toys in the original package. I wish would’ve bought some of those 70s Star Wars toys. I’d sell them today, and buy a new car.

Personally, I don’t have much. I have a few comic books (first editions) that are 20 years old. I have a Hot Wheels Cannonade from 1980. I also have a silver certificate $1 bill.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[Solo MAN’S WisdomParticipant]

I collect the tears of single mothers.

When women lead, destruction is the destination. -- Me.

[Anonymous 42]

Solo MAN’S Wisdom wrote:

I collect the tears of single mothers.

I make the tears of single mothers.

A wall of books will change your life if you use them.

Stealth, I came across some bookshelves on CL , I was thinking when I saw them how much a man’s knowledge was financially limited to his bookshelf or the public library.

Now with the internet it’s like loading a program when you want to go into any branch of the MATRIX.

[RoyDalParticipant]

FunInTheSun wrote:

Do you collect things as a hobby? Do you have anything valuable?

Yes, I get the urge very strongly from time to time. It’s a long list. Too long.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[TuneoutParticipant]

FunInTheSun wrote:

Do you collect things as a hobby? Do you have anything valuable?

I envy people who have rare items (toys, baseball cards, comic books, coins, etc.) and have kept them in good condition. They can sell them if they ever need some emergency cash. I know a guy who recently sold his Reggie Jackson baseball card for about $150. Some of the Hot Wheels cars I destroyed/lost as a kid are worth hundreds of dollars today—some are even worth thousands of dollars. Believe me, if I knew about people’s sense of nostalgia, I would’ve keep some of my toys in the original package. I wish would’ve bought some of those 70s Star Wars toys. I’d sell them today, and buy a new car.

Personally, I don’t have much. I have a few comic books (first editions) that are 20 years old. I have a Hot Wheels Cannonade from 1980. I also have a silver certificate $1 bill.

LOL yeah I had the Hot Wheels,Star Wars and hockey cards as a kid too and of course didn’t hang on to them but most collectors want pristine in the box.
What ‘kid’ has that!

Now I collect prop replicas from movie/Tv shows I’ve enjoyed and watches,you can never have too many,besides I have the time.

Lifes a bitch,but you don't have to marry one!

[Anonymous 54]

I collect x wives. An expensive hobby! Hang on to the comic books there very valuable. You here story’s of mothers throwing them away,then finding out there value. And with most idems it’s haveing having the original box that gives it value.

[Anonymous 5]

I collect die cast model cars I have thousands of them .I just got a model of a 69 camero today I have shelves full of them on display

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Yes. LEGOs… (that’s all I wanted for Christmas until I was 17).
My nieces have it all now.

Then I became fascinated with design and design objects. Cool lamps , everyday objects, and things like that. I have about a dozen black 60’s design Rosenthal porcelain pieces that are “rare” which I wanted as gifts (from family) because I would never buy them. Specifically by Tapio Wirkala.

Rosenthal makes about 100 and only one or two pass inspection and the rest are smashed. They are black porcelain all the way through and not just glazed or painted. There’s just something about them I like.

I also have an unopened “Slave (princess) Leia” that’s apparently worth a lot as far as action figures go… but I didn’t really collect many. Just a few.

Then I got an “urge to purge” about 10 years ago and sold early everything and changed my “style”. I am not sure why, but I have no more desire to have (or collect) “stuff”. I hate clutter.

After a while “stuff” you collect starts to own YOU, and not the other way around. Although, if I were Jay Leno, I would probably be the same way about cars.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

Books.

I’ve always wanted to have my own private library or reading room in a house. I still have my college books. Some of my favorite books are biographies of people who had difficult lives and overcame their problems or outside adversities.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

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