If there were space...
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
May 9, 2020 10:28am CST
My family, well we're a family of collectors. I am no better or worse than they are, though I like to imagine I am, at least in this regard.
Now, we are also a family of hoarders. I am better than they are in this regard, though it's a struggle, I assure you.
What in the world are you going on about, Amber?
Well, I'm about to tell you.
My mother had a blue and white wash basin. I am pretty sure it was reproduction, though I could be wrong. I'm trying to wrack my brain for how it got gone. Was it my grandmother? She liked to throw other peoples stuff away, but not so much her own (though she, admittedly, did do a bit of that.).
I can't completely blame her though, as I may have told her it was okay to do so. Even so, she wasn't always of the habit to ask.
Now, I kind of really wish I had it. Of course, that goes back to the beginning of the discussion... My family, we are a family of hoarders..
What do you like to collect?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 May 20
Mostly chefs you like, right?
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
10 May 20
I couldn't think of what we are collecting.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
10 May 20
Well that's good I think. Sometimes collections can go a bit overboard.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
12 May 20
@Nakitakona I believe raybans are very popular sunglasses. He could, if he wished, sell them for a good profit.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
12 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I notice from our son-in-law. He has collected several designs of sunglasses or raybans.
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
9 May 20
I'm not into collecting anything since I like new and shinny things more.lol.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 May 20
I don't collect cookbooks, I actually donated or sold the cookbooks my grandmother had. All except for the church cookbooks that had belonged to her mother. Those I cherish.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
10 May 20
@LadyDuck I used to use allrecipes.com and found that they were halfway decent recipes. Now it seems that bloggers who share recipes are the most popular. I do not like these because most of the page is full of information that isn't relevant to the recipe.
Yesterday I looked on ebay for some old church recipe books. Some of them were expensive (starting at $30) while others were more reasonably priced ($10.00 and below). Once the thrift book store opens back up, I may go and look at what they have on offer again. I know at the time it was a lot of the volume style cookbooks (Betty Crocker, for instance).
The cook books that you cousin gave to you, are they full of recipes from actual accomplished chefs?
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@LadyDuck (502208)
• Italy
10 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I have all the old ones and many that I bought during our travels. The recipes you find online are often garbage compared to those you find in good serious cooking books. Those who study to become chefs have special books, I have a few that my cousin gave to me.
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@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
9 May 20
I stopped collecting years ago. We had two bedrooms full of stuff. I've been getting rid of as many as a dozen boxes each year to charity. Too much "stuff". I want to downsize before we have to go to the "home". :-)
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 May 20
I think that is a good idea.
My ex husband's great granny was 95 when she went to a home after being hospitalized for blood clots. We had to help clean out the house, and it was truly sad to see a lifetime of stuff go. It was dispersed among the family, and some of it donated. I can not even remember if she was ever told about it as she was moved from the hospital to the home.
I guess it's the sentimentality of me, but I hate seeing things go even though I know so much is unused.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 May 20
@LindaOHio I have managed that with some things. I have a problem with "If we just had more space..." so I keep things. I'm working through that.
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@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
9 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Me too; but you get to a point where you just have to say "too much!" and let it go.
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@Janet357 (75638)
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9 May 20
I just collected stamps, paper money and key chains.
But my stepmom's mom whom I called mommy too LITERALLY hoarded EVERYTHING. am not exaggerating this, but yes, EVERYTHING.
she hoarded two huge boxes, the one you use in packaging stuff when you go abroad. I think 2 or 3 very huge boxes of bath soaps of.different shapes and sizes and colors. I tell you what, for some years, the whole household, with 7 members never bought soaps. Then boxes of gold jewelry , kitchen utensils, gold coins, i.cant inumerate them.one by one. When you enter her house, you can barely walk through. goodness.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 May 20
I understand what you mean. My house is sort of like that now. We can walk through, but there are still piles of things. Lots of actual valuable things but also things like pie boxes (when you go out to get a pie) and at one time we had medicine bottles upon medicine bottles. I actually threw those away a few years ago..
It's not my collection either, but a relatives!
I have a few coins from Ireland. None of really particular collectors value, but they have my birth year on them which is why I bought them.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 May 20
@Janet357 I have gone minimal with my own stuff, though there is room for improvement. I live with my grandfather and uncle. We have an arrangement. I cook and clean (What I can) and they help support me. I pay my own bills, but my uncle does give me a little money to help with that.
I can't make them get rid of things that I wish they would...
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 May 20
Ah, yes, I am an avid collector of both! 
The former makes me happy, the latter not so much.
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@Aansh13 (11433)
• New Delhi, India
9 May 20
In terms of collecting- I love books, they are my first love....
Other than that what I really love collecting is ear-rings..... Where ever I travel I make sure to buy at least one pair as a memory...
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 May 20
Oh! That's a unique collection. I have my mothers earrings, though none have any value..
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