Do you collect anything?

[dragonpisces69]

I mainly collect beads, buttons (which are occasionally subsequently used for creative purposes) and rubber duckies. Furthermore, I have quite a collection of stuffies (of which the majority is sadly in my parental home instead), especially those from several Nintendo franchises, and I deffo want more of those.

 

[Imbri]

I collect a few things. Dolls (mainly Pullip, Licca, and Lottie, but I have a few Barbies in there), yarn (you can never have too much sock yarn), stickers, comics (mostly Archie titles, but I have a few others from when I was a kid), and select Funko Pops! figures.

I have a fair collection of Tarot decks, some that I use, others are just because I love the artwork. And I have a large collection of tea, but that isn't really a collection. It's more of a necessity.

 

[-Lychee-]

I try to behave since I have a ridiculous amount already, but I have quite a huge collection of dice for D&D.

 

[BluebearL]

Yeah I collect a few things:

-Boomerang bags
-I have a few wombat suvenoirs for some reason (I love wombats so I get given wombat stuff which I love- mostly plushies) which includes a hand wood carved wombat that would normally sell for a lot of money so that is close to my heart.
-Amiiibo cards.

 

[MapleSilver]

I collected Amiibo when they were a new thing, so I still have a lot of them now. I don't remember the exact number but I have most of the Smash Wii U and Animal Crossing figures. Eventually I kind of lost interest but I don't regret buying them since they're still really nice to have on display.

 

[_Donut_]

Years ago I used to collect model airplanes (not the ones you can buy onboard but the heavier metal ones) from different airliners, since then I've sold a couple so I only have a few left now.

I also love to collect movie props or materials from my favourite movies. For animation that's Princess Mononoke, from which I have several books on the making off & storyboards. And for live action that's Jurassic Park, where my most precious possession is an original production storyboard from my favourite scene out of the movie (just before they first meet the Trex =D sadly didn't found the scene of the Trex himself though). I'm still scouting movie props now and then to try and find the Trex scene

 

[Alienfish]

Also yeah unless I wrote before, I used to collect amiibo cards some years ago, had a decent collection but sold most. I still have some Splatoon 2 amiibos and some old Isabelle one.

 

[skarmoury]

Yes! I am a huge sucker for stickers and started collecting in my college days when there used to be weekly stalls near our school that sold a variety of stuff. Since then I've been collecting stickers wherever I went, and one of my most enjoyable memories was attending a sticker convention! I was so frantic and excited that my boyfriend almost kept on losing me in the crowd. I have over a thousand stickers now and I can't wait when the next sticker convention will come around in my city! (surely after the pandemic, which will last for a while, but I'm excited nonetheless!)

 

[rosetti]

I have recently reignited my tokidoki unicorno collection as well as trying to get some of the moofia stuff - rn I’m rly after this one from series X it’s called lovey and there’s a secret chaser design too (not my photo!)

 

[Romaki]

I'm a very practical person, so I only really collect (AC) amiibos, amiibo cards and Switch games.

I might start collecting anime figures though, I have a Yor one and I really like it.

 

[Oblivia]

I casually collect rock + mineral specimens and various odd trinkets that I find primarily at art festivals.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I collect Nintendo Switch games. I even have a Switch game collection in my box, that I painted and decorated.

 

[Envy]

I like collecting classic My Little Pony toys (G1 and G3). My collection is rather modest sized compared to the dedicated collectors out there, though. I'm sure my parents think I have too much, though.

I also like collecting other cute things, I have a number of unicorn plushies and some Pokemon plushies (Alolan Vulpix, Galarian Ponyta, Glaceon, Sylveon, etc.), and dog plushies. I would love to get some of my favorite AC villagers, but those are hard to come by, as the vast majority are for the main character NPCs like Tom Nook or Isabelle.

Also, I've always joked that I collect woodwind and brass instruments. I own one of most instruments from an US wind ensemble. So it's not exactly a joke. This is where my user title came from. I also like to find excuses to pull out more instruments that aren't my mains (oboe and bassoon are my mains) for casual events and I think people find me to be pretty strange. How many people own a bass clarinet and it isn't one of their main instruments? lol

 

[Paperboy012305]

If there's anything I collect that collides with the modernity of 2020-2023 I don't, but in the years of the mid-2010's of course I do.

I still collect Skylanders and Amiibo (And the cards). After all between the two I haven't finished up the collection yet, as the Amiibo figures, I pretty much gave up on them as I don't really play the games that the amiibo can take advantage of. Except for Mario Kart and Animal Crossing, but I don't even play as a Mii so the Mario Kart one is useless. I only fool with Amiibo Cards now.

 

[SleepyAmaurotine]

mainly keychains! (and some pins and other things)

Spoiler: i have two boards and i'm setting up a pin banner soon :'D

i also have a sticker collection~ it's a mix of order freebies, stickers i bought, and trades <3

Spoiler: stickers

also maybe video games? though my collection is just games i like, i'm not going for every game that exists (a lot of games i played between the gamecube and 3ds were digital after my brother broke a disc when we were little and my dad decided we were done with physical games lmao)

Spoiler: games

i do have a big binder of pokemon cards since i always used to get them when i was little, but i stopped getting more a few years ago (i've never even played with them since i just liked the art, i've only played yu-gi-oh)

i also used to have a small barbie collection but i gave them away to my younger cousins a few years ago (and i hope my barbies have been faring well compared to the lps toys i gave to my other cousins who begged me because "i had the good ones" and immediately destroyed them )

 

[Drawdler]

Not currently, but I used to collect:
Retro Spyro merch 2009-2011, I would rather get rid of most of it now lol but there are still cool things in there like a French press kit
Skylanders: collected them all except for some chase variants which I’m not likely to ever get
Smash amiibo: have them all, unless they decide to release Sora in the future

@Paperboy012305 how’s your Skylanders collection?

 

[kisaker39]

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[nightglow]

I don't collect anything in particular anymore... but I am tired of my new pup trying to chew on my purse so I just bought a bigger purse that is a blue jean like material and a few pins to stick on it. The purse I have will eventually crack and peel anyway because it s a cheap vinyl bag anyway but I like it because it can hold water bottles in it and it is the only purse I have that doesn't flop over that can hold drinks.
So... I guess I'm going to start collecting pins? Then I can just transfer pins when I need a new purse after it wears out? The pins I picked up were mostly moths. (The site had a sale, and was normally a cheap site that sold random stuff to begin with, so I didn't spend much at all)

I'll share pics of the pins in this comment later when they come in. It will be a few weeks though.

Spoiler: My Pins!

Most of them came together but I really like them and got a good deal on them because they wanted them gone.

The first pic, the top row aren't any specific moths that I could tell but some of them remind me alot of irl moths I really like. The rosey one reminds me of the rosey Maple Moth. The middle, though pink, reminds me of the poodle moth, the one beside that one that's kinda brown, it reminds me of the polyphemus moth. The green one reminds me of the lunar moth which below those I have two lunar moths. But those are so neat because of the little celestial bodies depicted on them and I like how they are kinda small.
The bottom middle is a butterfly called the painted lady. It's a common one found in North America. I hope to eventually get a Monarch.

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I really like the geo background shapes.
This moth reminds me of the poodle moth but I also really like the trinity symbols on it.
The elephant beetle has a lot of celestial bodies on it, but is more of a homage to animal crossing. I plan to eventually add a stag, rhino, and goliath beetle pins one day to my bag. Not sure how close they will look to these but I feel like I'd be lucky to find them at all.

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I like solitaire games and this queen of hearts looks crazy and I had to get it. It reminds me of something in Cassette Beasts that I thought was so cool. I won't spoil that since the game is still new. But I plan on eventually getting a cassette tape pin to go with it one day.

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My spouse likes to do a marathon of watching Star Wars movies every year or two. Though I'm not a huge star wars fan like him, I really enjoy their spaceships and thought this pin was really cool and a good memory of that.

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I already absolutely love my bag (and it holds drinks!) and I look forward to seeing how it looks years later and what other kind of cool pins and thoughts to go with them are.
I may put a tad of glue on the pin backs, we'll see how well they stay on first.
I really wish I decided to do something like this sooner but I am now so that's all that matters

I thought about doing something like that when I was a teen because pins could go on bags or jackets but my mom was annoying enough about Pokemon cards. (I was always told what I bought was a waste or was stupid)

As a kid I collected Pokemon cards and I still have them. I also still have a few figures from friends and plushies too in a spare room, but nothing big. The plushies were mostly from my 20s. At one time my dad had a quarter book that was supposedly mine and my grandpa would get quarters for it all the time. Idk where it is and I totally forgot about it until now because I don't have it and it never moved out with me because it wasn't ever with my stuff. It's probably stored away at my parents somewhere.

 

[.: Meri :.]

Collecting is a huge hobby of mine! c: I collect a few types of plush, mainly Pokémon plush and a couple lines of plush by Amuse (namely Alpacassos and Wooly Sheep), with a good few Slime Rancher, Animal Crossing, and other assorted fandom plushes thrown in. I typically only add about a handful a year at most and I tend to lean strongly towards the smallest sizes available for the sake of space.

But my largest collection would definitely be all the merch of my favorite characters I've built up over the years. I have a lot of different types of merch in this collection—my main purpose is getting different art, so the form it's in doesn't matter much to me. (That being said, I've been trying to avoid acrylic stands and other acrylic merch lately because it takes a lot of room and it's also the kind I worry about breaking the most. ;w; ) I have a corkboard full of buttons and a few keychains, multiple cloth posters and microfiber cloths, display albums specifically for storing bromides/art boards/clear files...

Spoiler: I don't have a problem!!

And I couldn't even fit everything on those spaces into these shots LOL. Corkboard also not pictured because it's super reflective and impossible to get good photos of with my lighting and where it's at in my room aaaand anything in storage folders, a little over half of my posters/microfiber cloths, and other assorted merch got left out of the photoshoot too

...So anyway I'm heavily considering investing in a proper display case—

 

[KittenNoir]

I collect anything robin related... mostly the 1966 robin merchandise