• rose56@lemmy.zip
    2·
    7 days ago

    Cds and vinyls, but mainly CDs because are smaller and portable. Electronic music mainly, and then jazz, pop and world/ethnic.

  • Widdershins@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    I don’t do it anymore but in my teens I had a little drawer full of finger and toe nails. I bit my nails all the time and my nail beds hurt often. I decided to start collecting the nails and I wasn’t gonna collect crap so I stopped biting my nails as much.

    The collection is probably still back at my parents house. I am better now at having strong fingernails. I know a good pair of nail clippers is helpful and all but let me tell you that a good 200-something grit sandpaper will make your nails strong.

    • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today
      7·
      9 days ago

      I started collecting CDs a few months back because I got fed up of not owning my music, now I’m looking into refurbished mini pcs to use as a server for it all.

      A charity shop nearby sold 10 CDs in mystery packs for the price of one normal cd so my collection grew pretty quick, some of the stuff is shit but some of the CDs were multi disk compilations that have really helped bulk it out.

      • nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        9 days ago

        i personally like buying exactly what I want, if my trash shelf gets too full its time to clean up! if I had the room though I’d totally just buy batches of them wherever I can find

        • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today
          3·
          9 days ago

          I’ve started collecting specific things now but at the start I just wanted to build up my library. It’s pretty rare to find my favourites even when buying new stuff though. The random packs helped me to find some new songs at least.

          • rose56@lemmy.zip
            1·
            7 days ago

            Rares are not easy, you need to hunt on eBay, discogs and local stores. I found to 2 rare vinyls the past year, had a big luck.
            Ps: discogs is good for cataloging your cd and vinyls.

  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
    12·
    9 days ago

    I stopped because I don’t want it to overtake my living space more but X-Men figures.

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    9 days ago

    I started a british tea towel collection. But than I figured out that life is ridiculously expensive, so I haven’t traveled abroad in 20 years. My tea towel collection is still 3.

      • Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        I don’t take it too seriously. For knives it has to do with the metal quality. You don’t want pot metal knives. For flashlights it has to be L.E.D.S. I really like Olight. For books, it is mostly occult or esoteric if non fiction. For fiction I prefer fantasy and urban fantasy , like the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.

      • glorkon@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        I have a thing for gentleman knives, especially those made from particular materials. Böker has recently released one made from meteorite steel which I adore. But since these knives are VERY expensive I can’t justify this passion to my wife, so I never started collecting.

        • Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          Bokers are awesome, I can’t afford them sadly. I can’t justify dropping $200 plus on a knife. I’ve been thinking about getting an Opinel just to see what the hype is about. They are very affordable.

    • BranBucket@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      I have a bunch too, but the collection started by accident.

      I like Godzilla. I like the old movies, I like the new ones. He’s a giant radioactive lizard, what’s not to like? I’m not a superfan, but I enjoy the franchise(s).

      I’m supposedly hard to buy for, I think mostly because my interests lie outside the rest of the my family’s to an extent, and tend to be niche or technical in nature, so I get Godzilla swag and toys for Xmas and birthdays. I don’t mind, it’s fun.