A circular came in the mail this week; an advertisement for an auction. I saw MY STUFF in this auction...I mean I have and use almost everything they were going to auction. Someone, someday is going to be *very* pleasantly surprised when they inherit my "stuff".

Unless it's my family and they said, "OMIGOSH, how could Sissie have kept this JUNK????"

Someone came to the farm a few weeks ago and kept talking about "your antiques". I finally asked them what they meant and they started naming the apple butter kettle, the Hoosier cabinet, the blah, blah, blah.

Funny. I use that stuff; didn't realize they were antiques and worth a lot of money.

How fun to see what everyone else collects! The lint thing kinda thru me - you never know what you can reuse.

Selling Avon for almost 20 years, I started collecting the old Avon bottles. Anything that's earlier than 1975.

Believe it or not, but my latest collection is the old olive green and gold accessories from the 60's! Mainly glassware and other pieces from that era. I also have pink/blue glassware/ceramics from the 50's. Love the depression glass.

I also have a heart collection, the Halloween collection is diminishing - just enough to put in the front window. But the Christmas Collection is out of control. I probably have 25 boxes of stuff. That will be sorted out this year.

I'm trying to find a coop antique store where I can start to sell off some of this stuff. After clearing out dead relatives houses I have the start of any collection imaginable!

Elsie,
your glassware collection sounds wonderful. I was collecting salt & pepper shakers for a while. I still have some. They were fun to collect. I may go back to them sometime. Your home must look fabulous for christmas with all that stuff. I moved recently and got rid of a lot. But the new house is bigger so I'm sure eventually I'll have too much

I collect Teddy Bears. I have hundreds and hundreds of them. And they collect a lot of dust.

What else do I collect? How about unfinished projects!

Well, I have a lot of 33 1/3 records here that I have collected from the 1960's and some old post cards from friends. I have matchs or match boxes . I have a small had blown glass collection also. In my Curio cabinet . I have a lot of Fostoria glass where . That my husband is from Moundsville, W.VA where the Fostoria factory use to be and not anymore. I got a lot when we were first married and has turned up here in Clearing House store. The Clearing hOuse is a second hand shop. I have picked up Lenox there real cheap.

I think that is all. I am not sure what to do with all these records. Anyone have any ideas!

Nancy

Sell your records on ebay.

Nancy, have a vinyl party. Listen to the oldies. A friend did it months ago. We reminisced all evening. Some of us married our high school sweethearts so it was a real blast. And some of us didn't. Spouses were hearing tales they'd never heard before. Go for it!

BC ... when my husband and I used to travel to exotic beaches every year, we collected sand from each beach in a film cannister. When we got home, I put the sand into a clear coin holder and labeled it. It was fun to look at the different colors of sand and remember the trips. We still have the sand collection but it's stored away safely in a box ... somewhere.

Misfire

What do I collect??? It would probably be better to tell you what I don't collect as I am a bit of a pack rat.

First of all, my collection of ex-husbands is one of the world's largest. I'd love to take my collection on the road and sell tickets, but the men keep crawling out of their glass cases.

My true love is anything and everything from the 40's and 50's. My Maw-Maw's house was always wall to wall in those kinds of things, so now I find them comforting. Everything from magazines to pottery to postcards litters my entire house.

I have a large collection of angels that I never meant to acquire. They just keep winding up here somehow.

I'm just beginning to collect twenty dollar bills... the new ones. So, if any of you would like to help get me started, send them my way.

JJ, I feel ya. I HATE panty hose, too.

I say I don't collect anything in order to discourage my family from buying me things they think I am collecting. Actually I think I am a lunatic collector.
I collect things til I get so much of it I can't stand another piece then I start something else.

I have a couple dozen celebrity dolls, a bunch of Lennox fairytale figurines, several Louie Icart figurines, a couple of his paintings, a gillion old records, a ton of blue glass, every monkey thing known to man, dozens of piano rolls (for my antique player piano), a whole bunch of various types of horns, about fifty crystal bells, dozens of sets of dishes, a closet full of vintage clothing, tons of vintage jewelry, and hundreds of antique eye glasses and sunglasses. Then of course there are my puppets and theie theater and my other theater junk which includes, lights, sound, sets, costumes and props.
Fortunately I have lots of storage space and a five car garage.
However, I am now in the mood to UNLOAD all of this JUNK!!! I'm trying to figure out ebay. I am sick of storing this stuff. My kids say they love it, but they don't really want it. They just want me to have it.
Good-bye junk.