Do You Have The Habit OfCollecting Things???

Coin Collection - Collection of Coins
India
November 17, 2008 6:16am CST
Hi MyLotters. I have a cousin who is crazy in collecting coins. However I have no such interests in collecting something. How about you?? Do you collect something like coins, stamps or whatever. What do you people do with those collections??
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27 responses
@YamiKiba (937)
• United States
17 Nov 08
Hello Vidhyavini. Yes I do add things to my evergrowing anime plush collection whenever I have the money to spare to it. I don't really do anything to my collection but stare at them and occasionally take photos of them. Sometimes when I feel bored, I play with them haha and I get into my childish habit of giving them dialogue and playing pretend, especially with my Naruto plushies. Fun topic.
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• India
17 Nov 08
You have a different collecting habit. Lol. Happy to have your response. Happy mylotting.
@youless (112108)
• Guangzhou, China
9 Dec 08
I think my collection is special. Since I like dogs and cats, so I collect their photos and newspaper cut. I love China
• India
9 Dec 08
Thats of course different. How many real dogs and cats you have at home???
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• India
9 Dec 08
We had one cat at home. You know. That will give birth to 4 kids every 2 months and we couldn't manage it. Lol. So we sent that cat out. I missed my cat. It was so nice. I never had interest in dogs.
@mykmari_08 (2464)
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
I think everyone has his or her queerness sometimes. But once you learn about my collection, I guess you'll consider my own fascination with a lot of things as odd or queer as me. Personally, I am a collector of round and petite objects such as marbles, white round pebbles, small tin cans, and small feng shui objects. I used to have a collection of stamps, too. Also, I have a few old local and international coins in my possession. Aside from this, I also used to collect the sturdy plastic type of call and text card. However, I seldom see this kind nowadays since the local telecommunications networks have cut costs and they have resorted to the cheaper and less sturdy cards. But the weirdest collection that I have is a thumb-sized bottle full of small round things which I manually and patiently get from cleaning rice before cooking it. Honestly, I don't know the real name of these things but I do love to roll them in between my fingers. So, that's it. This is my share in the world of collections.
• India
9 Dec 08
Wow!! Thats a cool collection. What do you do with these??? I think you need a separate place for your collections. Lol. Happy to have your response. Happy mylotting.
@anneshirley (1516)
• Philippines
17 Nov 08
I think you're friend and I will go along well together since we have the same habit. It's the only habit I have though and it started only as an assignment during my high school years. I have this social studies teacher who asked us to bring the oldest coin that we have and since then, I've been crazy about finding old coins. It doesn't matter if it our currency or not as long as it is old. I have also some friends who gave me their old money as sort of addition to my collection and I am very proud of it since most of the coins that I keep have been totally extinct in our society. I let kids see my collection to inform them the different money that we had all ready. It is interesting since many are learning from my collection.
• India
18 Nov 08
Wow!! Thats cool. Ya your kids will enjoy that. How many coins do you have and which country coins come under your collection??
• India
25 Nov 08
Seems like you are too much interested in your hobby. Good work man.
@earnnings (1325)
• India
17 Nov 08
yes me to I use to collect coins those with the kings, leader faces....I use to collect all the cartoons in the young world and many more....I have the habit of collecting nature pictures and also tips given in newspapers.
• India
17 Nov 08
Wow!! Thats great. Happy to have your response. Happy mylotting.
• United States
23 Nov 08
I collect stamps and coins. As well as banknotes. A great hobby. have a good day.
• India
25 Nov 08
Good hobby. Keep it up.
@arunmails (3011)
• India
17 Nov 08
Yes, I have the habit of collecting the old age coins, like 1 Paisa, 2 Paisa etc..... and now there is a demand for even 50 paise..... so, in future, we cannot see the 50 Paise also..... so, I had collected for about 10 different kinds of 50 paises.......
• India
18 Nov 08
Ya you are right. 50 paise is fine at present. But 25 paise seems to be too rare. They never give the balance in bus if its 25 paise saying that they don't have. 50 paise is also reducing. Good to collect that also. What are you planning to do with them??? Gonna show your kids??
@arunmails (3011)
• India
18 Nov 08
Nice thought.........
• India
23 Nov 08
Only Mylot cents. Cheers and happy mylotting
• India
25 Nov 08
Haha. Same as me.
@1corner (744)
• Canada
23 Nov 08
I tried doing this when I was young, with stamps and coins both, but the cost of doing so always sabotages my attempts. And I thought aftergoing through all the trouble of collecting, I might not be so willing to part with them at the end, UNLESS I'm truly hard up and the offer is in the 10s or 100s of thousands. I'd also like to collect snowglobes, if it weren't for lack of space and the cost of each. When it's feasible, perhaps.
• India
25 Nov 08
Yup. The same happens to me everytime. I used to start something and will stop it in between if some problem occurs. Lol. Happy to have your response. Happy mylotting.
• United States
24 Nov 08
Oh yes I do! I collect Halloween decorations like crazy from August-November ( after Halloween sales) Then I collect Christmas decorations then I collect Bottles,perfume bottles . I also collect horror movie toys, But not as much as I use to because those I can't afford it as much since I have a child now.I also use to collect doll's. But I'm not a avid collector as I use to be. Now I collect craft items and jewelry making supplies and beads and trinkets and anything I can assemble. I need more space actually, I have some stuff stored in boxes that I haven't seen in some time.. Me and my Husband together collect Books ,DVD's & music also. We own A lot of books together more then DVD's .
• India
25 Nov 08
Thats good. Even I like collecting DVD and software related cds. But I don't own a system and so not have started collecting that. Haha. But I will definitely do once I get a system on my own. You have too many collections and as you said of course you need more space.Haha. I think you will want a separate house for your collections. Hehe. Happy to have your response. Happy mylotting.
@yuna15 (2706)
• Philippines
24 Nov 08
Yes I do I like collecting postage stamps and now old magazines. It's difficult for me now though to collect stamps since e-mail and text messaging is the best and fastest way to communicate with everybody around the world.
• India
9 Dec 08
Ya you are right. Now its too difficult to collect stamps. No one uses it. You can go to the post office and buy it from them. Lol. Happy to have your response. Happy mylotting.
@Tushavi (2077)
• Karachi, Pakistan
23 Nov 08
Well, I Just Editing on Your Post Title :D & it's "Do You Have the Habit of Collecting a Books" Yep i madly collecting a books have a nice day.
• India
25 Nov 08
Yup. If I had that title people who are collecting stamps and coins would not have posted. Lol. What kind of books do you collect??? Novels??
@lilcee (2703)
• United States
17 Nov 08
Hi vidhyavini. I collect bells and clowns. I keep them in cabinets with glass doors. I also am collecting the state quarters that we have here in the USA. I don't have all of them yet tho.
• India
25 Nov 08
Wow!! You collect something that will be useful to you. You can use your collections for Christmas right?? Thats good. This is what I think about when people say they are collecting something. What would they do with it??? Haha. Good collection of yours.
@Purtle (274)
• United States
18 Nov 08
When i was in elementary school, i collected erasers of all kinds, and cool pencils. I still have them up in my room. I then later on starters a sticker collection, i did not get as much with that because i stopped pretty quickly. That is all the collections i can think of right now. Might have been a few more. WEll i did collect pokemon cards too :P
• India
25 Nov 08
Haha. Thats good. I was not crazy collecting eraser. I used to have some with me always so that I can use it if mine is missing. Haha. Other than that I never did any collections.
• United States
24 Nov 08
I collect coins and money for other country.... :)
• India
25 Nov 08
Happy to have your response. Happy mylotting.
@andak2007 (3229)
• Philippines
17 Nov 08
when i was still in high school i really like collecting stamps and paper stationaries that smells so sweet and good...i stopped that habit of mine and do you know what when i see stationaries from my nieces i like to smell them and it brings back lots of memories from my high school days..funny...right now i have one album full of stamps and i still keep it...i know they have no value but i just like keeping them for memories sake...and then when i started working i like to collect tickets...i still have them with me.
• India
18 Nov 08
Thats great. I collect some things from my friends. My friend's hair band or their hand kerchiefs or key chains or something else. Seeing those just reminds me of them and the days that we spent together. In school days I used to collect chocolates and will distribute it on my b'day. Lol. I was very crazy I think. Hehe.
• Brisbane, Australia
17 Nov 08
Not really. When I was in my school days I used to collect pictures of my favorite movie stars.
• India
25 Nov 08
Thats great. How about now??? Stopped doing huh???
@orevro (715)
• Philippines
17 Nov 08
Hi vid, when i was young, i used to colect stickers:) I would always spend my allowance on stickers.. I even asked for a sticker album for my birthday, but when i didn't get it.. I asked for it again christmas time,lol.. My other collection would be pocketbooks.. I don't know if you know "sweet valley" pocketbooks.. But i was able to collect the first few books of sweet valley senior year.. I gave it up when i realized i could borrow the books in our library:)
• India
25 Nov 08
Ya you could get books from the library itself. Still some people are crazy in having their own books. Having own books is always useful only. So you also did a good job collecting it. What kind of stickers do you collect???
@jcj_111776 (3216)
• Philippines
17 Nov 08
Hello!I only have one collection, and that is my romance books. The first book that I've had was when I was in grade school. And since then, I started buying, carefully covering each book in plastic and clear wrappers. It all started in one book and today, I guess I have around almost 120 romance books. My husband, though, kept teasing me to discard them because he thinks my books are taking too much space. But I had a shelf installed on the wall, just for my books. Actually, that shelf is my most favorite spot in our house.
• India
18 Nov 08
Haha. Thats crazy. You spend so much time for that huh?? I mean to cover them properly and place it well. Good work. I read one comment here that he is interested in collecting books about science and have not read them. How about you??? You read all your collections???
@leateagee (3667)
• China
17 Nov 08
Hello vidhyavini, I do have a habit of collecting things. I collect stationary when I was in elementary but I stopped it. But until now I collect coins and stamps. I am very active now for my stamp collection. If you know anybody who would like to trade China stamps to me, just give me a message and wherever you are I will exchange or trade it with you. Actually I have found some stamp collectors here in mylot and we have done some trading already and I want more. I am currently residing in China now so I can exchange Chinese stamps. Its fun to collect. Take care =) Happy everyday!!!
• India
25 Nov 08
I don't think I could be of help to you in this thing. Lol. I don't have interest in it and so if I get also I will forget to have it. Lol. My sister is in Japan so I will get some coins from her and give to my cousin who is interested in collecting coins. Other than that I have not done anything. Lol.
@hitejam89 (523)
• India
17 Nov 08
hi Vidhya, i love collecting coins and stamps. i think collecting stamps and coins are great hobby, usually we exchage, or sell it, if some stamps or coins are rare or old, one can sell it for huge amount. Cheers!!!!!!!!
• India
18 Nov 08
So that isn't a hobby for you. You are making a small business out of it. Lol. Good job man. Happy to have your response. Happy mylotting.