What Do You Collect?

[Sybil]

Dust.

And online i collect all kinds of pics..

i have 1000's of pics in my photobucket account.

[Scary Guy]

An ex of mine collects eyes, and souls.

[Fierce Critter]

Moving on...

[Fierce Critter]

I also have a nice collection of plastic wind-up toys. Little mice that flip, fish that swim, chattering teeth, walking thumbs & ears & noses, that sort of thing. I'll include McDonald's Happy Meal toys when they're decent. But mostly I get stuff you'd see in stores like Middle Earth & Peaceable Kingdom in A2.

[Draco1958]

I collect swords. Unfortunately not the expensive good stuff. Just swords that are good for displaying and photoshoots, costuming. Airsoft guns, Godzilla movies and starting on anime. My ex collected salt and pepper shakers.

[Fierce Critter]

My ex collected salt and pepper shakers.

Jon and I were into antique stores for a while. I started finding myself buying a lot of really cute animal-type, but I refused to call it a collection.

I've probably got about 6 pairs that I switch between or keep in different part of my kitchen. And they say that if you have two of something, you have a collection.

I still refuse to call it a collection. Anyway, we don't go to antique stores anymore. So no more buying.

[Kit Kat P]

Issues, I really do have volumes, they are all delt with but they still exist, I don't think they ever really go away.

[Draco1958]

I have a box with salt and pepper shakers. probably 4 or 5 sets that I want to get rid of.

[Fierce Critter]

I have a box with salt and pepper shakers. probably 4 or 5 sets that I want to get rid of.

Look 'em up in eBay completed auctions. They could be worth some extra cash to add to your sword collection.

[damagedangel]

Hello Kitty stuff!

[Sybil]

An ex of mine collects eyes, and souls.

*scoffs*

She wishes.

[Sybil]

Just curious as to what DGNers collect.

Amongst other things, I collect Polish wooden jewelry boxes. I don't feel like taking pictures of the ones I have right now, but here are some examples:

The boxes are so pretty, by the way.

[CatsEyeOfTheWiccan]

I collect Records & 45s

Also

8-Tracks

Also

On my harddrive.

-CatsEye

[Scary Guy]

*scoffs*

She wishes.

I forgot oddly shaped skulls... or so she says anyhow.

But she literally collects souls on napkins and has people write them down for a dollar or so.

So hot though, it was worth it.

Also she's still a good friend which is always nice too when that's possible.

[pomba gira]

What is the attraction if one is not a Nazi-wanna-be?

Just curious.

The swastika/savastika an ancient, pan-cultural symbol that was extremely widely used in western cultures. Before WWII it appeared on just about any consumer item you can imagine. In the US it was considered a good luck charm and associated with Native Americans since many Native cultures used it. The Navajo called it "whirling logs" and it appeared on a lot of their silver jewelry. A few things that were commonly decorated with swastika motifs:

Quilts

Clothing

Table linens

Jewelry

Greeting cards & postcards

Promotional items like tobacco felts and lucky coins

Architectural motif

"Swastika" was also a popular name for businesses, sports teams, yearbooks and so on.

Run a search on eBay... "swastika", excluding all nazi-related keywords, and you'll get an idea what I'm talking about.

So.. on one level it's fascinating to me that such a widely-used symbol became completely taboo in such a short period of time. Just imagine if it suddenly became unacceptable to put hearts on anything.

On another level... this is a symbol that humans all over the world have used for thousands of years. Usually it signifies life force or creative energy... lines of force radiating from a still center point. Swastika/savastika are Sanskrit terms, the first is right-facing and signifies male energy, second is left-facing and signifies female energy... my tattoos are actually savastikas. Because of their deep significance in Buddhist and Hindu beliefs they were never abandoned by Asian cultures... in fact I recently found an Indian-made sundress with a paisley & swastika pattern at a street fair. Swastikas (manji in Japanese) appear in manga fairly often, usually the editors will include a cultural note explaining the significance. Anyway, my feeling is, a few years ago (in the grand scale of human affairs) some evil bastards co-opt this symbol for their own evil regime... so we should just let them keep it? Forever? Hell no... especially since the 3rd Reich hakkenkreuz (they didn't use the word "swastika") is a very specific design and there's no reason to associate any other form of swastika with it. So I am engaged in "re-gracing" the swastika and returning it to its positive origins. I can't say I came up with this idea entirely on my own, credit for that goes to ManWoman who I first read about in the original Re:Search Modern Primitives. Lots of info on the website, even more in his book Gentle Swastika.

[Fierce Critter]

Very, very interesting. Thanks for the rundown.

I knew about it's original incarnation as a sort of good luck symbol. And figured that was your interest.

I think your aim is pure, justified and worthy. However, the damage done by the degree of absolute evil the swastika is associated with due to thatmutherfuckerhitler I fear is not surpassable.

Just like you don't see many people sporting that mustache anymore.

[CatsEyeOfTheWiccan]

I think I am pack rat....at least my mom thinks so.

-CatsEye

[crunchy_pickle (5)]

I collect a lot of random shit. Baseball cards, old school tech shit, games, etc...

I think mostly I collect people though. There's something about getting to know someone for the first time, that is very exciting to me.

[Hellion]

Info on corporate/government corruption,be surprised what you will find these days.

[lonesomeangel]

scars...emotionally and physically

also mp3's

I have about 12 gigs on my computer....

another 5 or so zipped on cd's

and another 7 on another hard drive collecting dust

[freydis]

Craft making stuff

Rose jewelry (mostly black rose stuff when i can find it)

Comic books

Paperbacks

Odd people

Art

Once i was collecting watches for awhile

Music

Halloween stuff

Strange looks

[sass_in_the_pants]

The swastika/savastika an ancient, pan-cultural symbol that was extremely widely used in western cultures. Before WWII it appeared on just about any consumer item you can imagine. In the US it was considered a good luck charm and associated with Native Americans since many Native cultures used it. The Navajo called it "whirling logs" and it appeared on a lot of their silver jewelry. A few things that were commonly decorated with swastika motifs:

Quilts

Clothing

Table linens

Jewelry

Greeting cards & postcards

Promotional items like tobacco felts and lucky coins

Architectural motif

"Swastika" was also a popular name for businesses, sports teams, yearbooks and so on.

Run a search on eBay... "swastika", excluding all nazi-related keywords, and you'll get an idea what I'm talking about.

So.. on one level it's fascinating to me that such a widely-used symbol became completely taboo in such a short period of time. Just imagine if it suddenly became unacceptable to put hearts on anything.

On another level... this is a symbol that humans all over the world have used for thousands of years. Usually it signifies life force or creative energy... lines of force radiating from a still center point. Swastika/savastika are Sanskrit terms, the first is right-facing and signifies male energy, second is left-facing and signifies female energy... my tattoos are actually savastikas. Because of their deep significance in Buddhist and Hindu beliefs they were never abandoned by Asian cultures... in fact I recently found an Indian-made sundress with a paisley & swastika pattern at a street fair. Swastikas (manji in Japanese) appear in manga fairly often, usually the editors will include a cultural note explaining the significance. Anyway, my feeling is, a few years ago (in the grand scale of human affairs) some evil bastards co-opt this symbol for their own evil regime... so we should just let them keep it? Forever? Hell no... especially since the 3rd Reich hakkenkreuz (they didn't use the word "swastika") is a very specific design and there's no reason to associate any other form of swastika with it. So I am engaged in "re-gracing" the swastika and returning it to its positive origins. I can't say I came up with this idea entirely on my own, credit for that goes to ManWoman who I first read about in the original Re:Search Modern Primitives. Lots of info on the website, even more in his book Gentle Swastika.

I thought the nazi swastika was the reverse of the traditional swastika? No? Do they actually look the same? I don't know where I got the idea that they were reversed...

[sass_in_the_pants]

Subway maps.

Maybe it's because we're always fascinated by things we don't have. Maybe it's those colored lines shooting out into different places, but I've always like subway maps.

Paper dolls.

My most recent addition is Carmen Miranda. I turned my drag queen paper dolls into refrigerator magnets. Usually, I cut out their costumes and the dolls and frame them. Or I put them on handbags.

My husband collects...oh my, here we go: shiny rocks. Coins, but not all coins, just silver dollars. Stuffed animals. Pictures of animals. Books.

[wearyone]

scars

body spray perfumes

candles

string

hair products (varying colors of dye too- I've got a few boxes of light brown and light strawberry blond if someone's needing them)

more string

favorites/bookmarks that I never look at again

yarn

crafty stuff

useless information

dust bunnies

outdated software

makeup

clothing

[DJ Nocker]

SOULS!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA

im so goth a crap bats