What non-card stuff do you collect?

[Jaybirdmh93]

I thought it would be cool to know what folks collected besides sports cards.

I personally am a huge Norman Rockwell fan. There are many reasons behind why, but the fact that we share a birthday and I was a Boy Scout, I simply love the images and the powerful images that they portray of a simpler time in the world.

Here are a few pictures of what I have collected over the years:





















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[zremez]

Sweet thread. I collect shoes, gotten up over 40+ pairs. Mostly Jordan, Nikes etc. Lots of similarities to the hockey card hobby, same shipping issues (especially to Canada...)

[mikecole141]

I have an extensive Comic book collection numbering over 25,000 books mostly from the 80's onward but have a large portion of issues for Justice League, Legion of Super-Heroes, Green Lantern dating back into the 60's and a few issues dating back to the 50's. As well as a bunch of related memorabilia for Green Lantern, Deadpool, and a few Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D pieces.

On the sports side I collect Game Worn jerseys, mainly of players from Newfoundland and Labrador, a few Leafs jerseys, plus one or two others. I have some Oilers game used autographed sticks and a couple of other autographed pieces of memorabilia including a team signed Columbus Blue Jackets replica jersey and an autographed helmet from the 2009-10 Rookie Showcase with Tavares, Hedman, Subban, Couture, Gustavsson and 9 other players.

[Wickabee]

I go to garage sales every weekend, and thrift shops whenever the mood strikes me. I make okay beer money reselling my buys online. A side effect of this is that I pick up stuff I end up liking too much to sell. I literally collect "stuff" because of my hobby, and it costs me nothing because I make more than I spend overall, and everything I buy is out of recycled profits.

[notoriousrob101]

I collect golf balls from all the courses I play. Need to find a way to display them. Any ideas?

[MattDMC]

I collect golf balls from all the courses I play.

Somewhat similarly I collect poker chips from every casino I play at. I make sure to have a $1, $5, and a $25 chip from each casino which the current list of chips that I have as followed:

Derby Lane (Dog Track in Florida, played in their poker room). This was the first place I was able to gamble at 3 years when I turned 18 and what started it all. Have a $1, 2, 5, and 25.

Then July this year I turned 21 and the gambling bug bit me hard:
Motor City (Detroit): $.25, 1, 2.50, 5, 25
MGM Grand (Detroit): $1, 5, 25
Greektown (Detroit): $1, 5, 25
Firekeepers (Battle Creek MI): $1, 2.50, 5, 25
Little River (Manistee MI) $1, 5, 25
Hollywood (Toledo OH) $1, 5, 25

And I'm going to Vegas in February so this list will be growing. As it stands now I have $512.25 in casino chips . Even when I win the casino still comes out ahead lol.
Some Casinos like Motor City for example are a pain in the because they release a couple different chips each year. They put a new $5 chip each new years with a new design, a special 4th of July chip, Detroit Jazz Festival chip and several others and the collector habbits in me say I need to get one of each chip lol. I have close to $65 in just Motorcity $5 chips because of all their special designs lol. Gotta give management credit though, they now people collect chips so they do the different designs purposely because they'd rather you take the chip home than cash it. Taking it home they lose the less than a dollar it cost them to have the chip made instead of cashing it they'd lose $5.

Then thanks to the chip collecting it got me somewhat into coin collecting. I've picked up 6 Morgans in the last 2 months and have 3 more coming along with a couple Walking Liberty halves.

[Ninjaflip]

Somewhat similarly I collect poker chips from every casino I play at. I make sure to have a $1, $5, and a $25 chip from each casino
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I do the same thing, only that Ill manage with one chip from each casino/poker club.
Its important that it has the local currancy and City. I put them in coin slabs so I can write what date I visited the city.
I have:
Budapest(Hungary) (2 casino + 1 pokerclub)
Riga(Latvia) 2 different Casino
Warsawa (Poland) 2 different casino
Amsterdam(Netherlands)

[MacDuff77]

I collect Queen stuff (music group). Up to about 600+ items (CDs, DVD/BR, albums, singles, books, programmes, collectibles, etc). Started listening to them in 1990 and never looked back. I collected cards from 1991-1994 and stopped (before starting again last year), but never stopped collecting the Queen stuff. I still buy all the new releases despite having the same song in over 25+ different formats.

[hugehitter31]

I do the poker chips too actually. been a bit since Ive been to one but I only bring home a $1 one that is in good shape with a cool picture on it. Not sure how to display them yet but Ill figure something out

Somewhat similarly I collect poker chips from every casino I play at. I make sure to have a $1, $5, and a $25 chip from each casino which the current list of chips that I have as followed:

Derby Lane (Dog Track in Florida, played in their poker room). This was the first place I was able to gamble at 3 years when I turned 18 and what started it all. Have a $1, 2, 5, and 25.

Then July this year I turned 21 and the gambling bug bit me hard:
Motor City (Detroit): $.25, 1, 2.50, 5, 25
MGM Grand (Detroit): $1, 5, 25
Greektown (Detroit): $1, 5, 25
Firekeepers (Battle Creek MI): $1, 2.50, 5, 25
Little River (Manistee MI) $1, 5, 25
Hollywood (Toledo OH) $1, 5, 25

And I'm going to Vegas in February so this list will be growing. As it stands now I have $512.25 in casino chips . Even when I win the casino still comes out ahead lol.
Some Casinos like Motor City for example are a pain in the because they release a couple different chips each year. They put a new $5 chip each new years with a new design, a special 4th of July chip, Detroit Jazz Festival chip and several others and the collector habbits in me say I need to get one of each chip lol. I have close to $65 in just Motorcity $5 chips because of all their special designs lol. Gotta give management credit though, they now people collect chips so they do the different designs purposely because they'd rather you take the chip home than cash it. Taking it home they lose the less than a dollar it cost them to have the chip made instead of cashing it they'd lose $5.

Then thanks to the chip collecting it got me somewhat into coin collecting. I've picked up 6 Morgans in the last 2 months and have 3 more coming along with a couple Walking Liberty halves.

[miscs75]

Not so much collect, more stock up on un-used Mark Streit sticks for personal use. I've been using his sticks since around 2009 and have refused to switch to anything else.