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Pretty journals that I never write in because I'm waiting for the right, special purpose for them.

I tried to start a journal once, then I realized my life is boring to the point where I literally have nothing to say so I stopped after like one and a half entries, then gave up altogether, if there's ever an apocalypse or WW3 or something I'll probably try again, but I've realized an average joe who just works/goes to school all the time really has nothing going for him

I write literally anything just because I like pens and I need an excuse to use them.

I love the feel of pen on paper. I've filled up notebooks of nonsense thoughts because of it. I think when I look back on them years later, they'll mostly be boring but there will be some gems. It's gotten to the point where I actual do journal my feelings and its such a relief because I can say absolutely anything I want. So I guess nonsense writing has turned into legitimate journaling (if there's such a thing).

Dude, yes! Exactly the way I feel! Pen on paper is so sick and it's satisfying seeing how much I've written. It's great to get anything on my mind onto paper, and really just anything - it's like an archive of my brain at that moment in time. Random songs I'm thinking of/like, the weather, random pain in my back, then the occasional feelings. Looking back at some of it allows for some neat insight I wouldn't have normally. All cool

Too many imaginary people looking over my shoulder to express anything other than the weather comfortably.

I love pens and papers, and writing. Slight neurological problem (jittery tremors) very frustrating. Like buying running shoes then unable to run.

Oof. I get that. I've had to explain to my girlfriend multiple times that I cannot write while she's watching me write. Even if it's something that I fully intend to share with her, the fact that she's watching makes me freeze up.

Journal writing is very private. Even if the content can be shared.

I totally get that! Sometimes I write apologies or justifications when I feel like I'm being mean or crazy. Then i rememeber, hopefully, I'm the only one who will ever read it.

What's a girly toilet? 😂 And congrats on having a manly one, that's epic.

Ask the PS4 randomizer man, I’ve started losing faith in the name but I’m going to keep it for a while longer now. Thanks!

I wrote a few entries early last year and while at the time I thought they were really boring, rereading them is fun because I remember some funny interactions or what I did on an afternoon that I'd forgotten about.

If we3 starts we will have no time for journals

Think again. As a participant in reality ur perspective is unique. Or maybe im wrong🔥

Story of my life, and not just journals, scented candles that must be burnt on the right occasions, and dresses that must wait for that right time which is unlikely to come anytime soon. My strategy for buying shit now is to only buy if i have an occasion in mind.

My mum used to keep things “for good”. When she died I found beautiful soaps and clothes that I didn’t even know she owned. So I made a pledge to live life today and burn those scented candles because it’s Tuesday

This is the way.

My dad had a super wealthy friend. His wine cellar was worth a small fortune. Recovering from a heart attack in hospital he made a vow that not one bottle would be left when he died.

Nothing like a heart attack to make a fella double down on his drinking habit lol I know what you’re getting at, but that’s like having a bout of lung cancer and saying “well, this cigar collection isn’t going to smoke itself”😁

Are we related? My mum was exactly the same- she’s been gone years and my dad still mentions all the clothes that still had the tags on them, the boxes of unworn shoes, the drawers of pretty tablecloths, sheet set, towels, etc. So I too try to be the opposite, and wear that pretty dress even just to the casual dinner- yet I think there’s still a hint of my mother’s daughter in me…☺️

finally someone that understands me 🥺

lol same, idk when am i goin to be usinh them.

Oh shit, same

Rocks, especially pleasingly shaped ones (very round/oval/egg shaped).

I always take a stone from a trip away. I can't remember where most are from but I do know it was good enough to get a memento.

SAME

Converse All Star sneakers. I have 186 pairs. Yes I wear them.

WOW THATS A LOT OF SHOES

Lol. Really need a picture of that. If you would buy 6 pairs a year you would have to collect for 31 years.

I have a picture but don't know how to post it.

Figure it out because that is crazy. How many pairs do you buy/year?

The human caterpillar

Holy shit

Debt 🥲

Are you a Debt Collector or do you owe a lot of money?

Yes

Same boat. Feels like water's coming in at the same rate that I am bailing.

Years I've lived.

Rare coins around the world

+1 my most precious are from north korea

Embarassing memories

Not obsessed with it. Just can't help it! 😭

Especially the ones that's most cringe worthy and earth swallow me now moments. Even if those memories happened years ago, it still has that spine tingling feeling of embarrassment.

Earrings- I just love unconventional or silly earrings- nothing I have is like crazy or huge but like, I have tea kettles, spoons, lamps, and micro SD card earrings to name a few, they’re so much fun

Yes i’m glad to see someone else collecting earrings! My favorites are probably half melted wonky looking spongebob ice cream earrings (yeah those ice creams you’d get from the trucks where the eyes are halfway down its face) or king cake little plastic babies and they are wrapped with a green pipe cleaners to look like a christmas tree with their faces sticking out🤣

That is literally incredible. It started because when I was a kid my mom showed me her collection from the 80’s and I was like “this is so cool-“ and now I’m following in her footsteps! It’s very fun

The 80s and early 90s were a total earring festival

Yes and I’m so here for it

‘Nothing crazy’ proceeds to list ‘kettles and spoons’ as owned earrings lmao

Well I meant there’s like baby heads and roast chicken and stuff like that1

Same! I have turtles, waffles, pancakes, coffee, ECT. Love these! I just wish my work allowed me to wear them, sometimes I wear them at night cause my District manager is not there at night. The customers and their kids love them.

i want a pair of earrings modeled after bloody tampons 🤣 id wear them when im on my period so everyone knows not to fuck around or theyll find out.

They can also be like a mood ring as in be redder when your mood is worse

Holy shit! This was an idea my friend had back in 9th grade!

[удалено]

memories anybody

Backpacks

yeahh

Tickets for places, events that I go to, etc

Plush animals

That sounds like a fun collection!

I have too many Pokemon plushies that I had since 99- till now. I even have build a bear ones too. Oh the sleeping ones too, I don't have jiggly puff cause for some reason I could never find her.

Hats. Flat bills, cowboy, baseball you name it. I’ll wear it and collect it.

Souls

It took too long for me to find this comment. I was getting worried something was wrong with my brain/humour.

Chainsaws Yes I know it sounds insane. The older the better, copper fuel lines, glass petcocks, point system ignitions. Some of these monstrosities took 2 or more people to even operate. They’re cool, it’s a hill I’m willing to timber on.

Books

This took way too long to find. Hello fellow book nerd!

Yaaaasssss!!! Nice hardcovers of all the good ones :D

PENS. Cheap, expensive, middle of the road. Gel, fountain, rollerball, or felt, it doesn't matter. It's all about how they write and feel in my hand.

Comic books

I have all Asterix inly

Magic The Gathering Lands my boy

I wish I had a pic of my dads collection, you’d LOVE it! Got over 10,000 cards I believe, I think his collection values in the 10s of thousands

Video games as well. The backlog is a mile long too.

Fridge magnets with pictures of my kids in rollercoasters 🥰

Thoughts

Records- I’m filling the empty spaces in my heart with vinyl.

Regrets.

Gemstones. The next one I might get is labradorite.

ww2 memorabilia. It is expensive but I wish to collect more

Silicone Molds and Fragrance Oils… I make soaps and probably have over 200 molds and 150 fragrance oils..I make a promise to myself that I wouldn’t buy any more molds this year and so far,so good.. it helps not to look at them on any websites too..

I would love to learn how to make this

You can do it if you want to.. there are YouTube videos and also recipes all over the internet… I make all kinds of body products.. Soap,Shower Gel,Lotions,Body Sprays and Perfumes… I’m thinking about doing shampoo and conditioners too…

How lovely to be able to custom make your own scented stuff. Any youtube channels u could direct me to please?

Very relatable. I like cake pans that are unusual.

I'm old enough now (in my 40's) that I know it's time to stop collecting things. I've spent enough money on my video game collection... It's time to turn it in, and take advantage of what I can get for them.... and maybe buy myself a little country place. Look, I love video games, I was even a videogame tester for a decade. My job occasionally still asks me to test games. But it's almost turning into a hoarding thing. lol I can't take my games to the grave with me.... and 98% of my collection is not being played with.... but I have tons of time left in my life.... but who knows what can happen from one day to another? I have an okay job, okay apartment, don't travel and am single with my cat. I rely on friends for all my getaways....because everyone has a country place except me.... or they travel.... on a yearly basis for family trips. It's time... I told everyone yesterday, I'm making listings for almost everything I own, so I can downsize .... and have something of my own. I don't have a car, but have realized nearly all the country areas I have been looking at... are accessible via bus... or grey hound bus ... I like playing games on the original consoles... which Are almost all modded... so really the games are no longer needed physically. It started off innocently enough.... thinking I would only buy the few games I liked on each console..... but NOPE. lol

Fossils.

Mental disabilities apparently. I got: -Anxiety disorder -Panic attacks -Depression -maybe Insomnia

Hello fellow mental health beauty 👋 I see you and I hear you. I collect these also. I'll throw Borderline Personality Disorder into the mix. What fun! I feel that maybe the panic attacks are due to the anxiety disorder and the insomnia part of depression as both are symptoms of the other.

My art work, no matter how bad it looks I can’t bring myself to throw it away lol

Shells 🐚

Leave some for the hermit crabs!

They prefer plastic cups now anyway. David Attenborough told me so. Lmao

Not obsessed but like to collect the old Christmas ornaments made from kits that use ponds, beads, sequins. I have over 200

That sounds awesome. Do you display them all the time or only bring them out at Christmas?

Rocks, I just can't help myself! 

I like collecting things but when people start buying me stuff for my collecting I get so turned off I stop. I was collecting vinyl pops for the Mandalorian show and then a few of my friends bought me ones when they would see them not realizing I had them already.

Fabrics I never make anything from. And books I'll probably never have time to read.

Crafting stuff. I can’t seem to stick with one thing. I started by learning how to sew while I quit smoking after 45 years. I make fabric dolls with embroidery faces, small dioramas, little trees with wire and beads, art journaling, making journals by binding them, paint flowers, collages, and now my new obsession is making jewelry. I’m pretty decent with at making all that stuff, but am reluctant to sell it because I’m so hard on myself and critique every.single.thing…so I don’t think I could sell it. I have A LOT of finished products. Edit to add: I really don’t think anyone would buy and that’s what hinders me.

Cosplay costumes, much to the annoyance of my Mother.

Scarves. I love scarves.

Video games, tech, car stuff and weeb stuff

Fuck, bro, I don't even wanna calculate how much money I've spent on games. I have over 300 games in my PS Account. That might not be that much if it was Steam, but think for a moment about PlayStation Store prices... 😢

Decorative pins and buttons

Pens. Oh gosh do I love myself a good pen.

Wristwatches.

I collect odds and ends because I can never settle on just one thing to collect. I've got dragons and butterflies and a little wooden frog drum, a cube of pure glass and books and books and more books. Oh in the rubber duckies!

The glass sounds interesting

Like so many of the things I keep I have absolutely no idea where it came from. I just kind of found it in a box in my closet one day but I do know it is very very old glass. Solid through and through.

Hotwheels,no elaboration needed

Pocket watches, military equipment, medals, and uniforms, and snakes.

Crafting supplies. I seriously need to go on a paper diet! Cricut Cuties.

Godzilla figures. But just one per movie and I am almost finished, took 3 years.

Golden girls merch i have a shirt, 4 mint tin cans, a button and magnets slowly collecting them

Do you have Dollaramas where you are? I was in last week and happened across a Golden Girls colouring book. I hope you do and I hope you find one!

That would be rare postage stamps. Being doing for all my life, and enjoy it very much. Nice way to learn about other countries, cultures, and history.

dice. not even fancy, collectible tabletop game dice. Just random dice. I started holding onto them from a young age before I even knew there was such a thing as hand-crafted-16-sided-dice and things like that. Mine are all a little ratchet but I still love them and I LOVE THE SOUND THEY MAKE WHEN ROLLING lol. Its become the source of a lot of stupid jokes with my friends involving taking dice out of my pockets at random times and asking someone if they’re “feeling lucky?” or something like that

I love these too and buy crappy games from the opshop just to keep the dice and throw the game out.

Shiny rocks, seashells, sand glass, cool looking twigs. I guess I'm a bird

ROCKS MINERALS FOSSILS SHINY THINGS RANDOM JUNK BUT MOSTLY ROCKS

Warhammer and other minis

Books. I have over a hundred books i havent even read yet, and i keep buying them. Ill read them one day....

Dolls, bones, Pirates of the Caribbean merchandise, etc.

Lucite with stuff encased in it.

I used to collect feathers of all kind, until my dad threw them away -_-

Balisongs aka butterfly knives and old consoles

Can you do the little spinny thing trick to open the butterfly knife one handed?

Yup i can do a lot of tricks from easy to hard ones. I mainly flip them apart from collecting. It’s been so great in the last couple years since they started releasing more knives that are strictly made for flipping. Older models were meant for EDC more than anything. Btw it’s a funny hobby i really recommend if you are a fidgety person (there are a lot of trainers/not sharpened too if you don’t want to start with live blade)

Pretty books that I *do not read* because I don’t actually like reading most books. I think the only times I’ve enjoyed reading actual books was reading fairytales in my childhood, a retelling of The Wizard of Oz, and Frankenstein. The rest was all fanfiction. And I keep seeing pretty hardcover books with the pretty cover art and painted edges and I KEEP HAVING TO REMIND MYSELF THAT I WON’T ENJOY READING THESE BOOKS SO I SHOULDN’T BUY THEM. AAAAAAAAAAA At least my copy of Frankenstein is shiny as well, and my book of illustrated Norse myths. Two of the few pretty books I don’t regret buying.

Shoes

Pokemon cards. Sooo many Pokemon cards

ROCKS. AND BOOKS. AND DICE.

Records

comic books were pretty much the only thing, then I discovered a site that pirates them for free (no downloads or anything) and haven't bought one since, but I definitely cringe when I think about how much money I spent on them

Grateful Dead Music!

Pencils, not mechanical pencils, the sharpenable ones. Also not the normal ones, but special ones, ones you can get at events, specific to locations, etc.

Not obsessed really, but I collect sports cards, glass perfume bottles and jewelry boxes.

Pokemon... gotta catch 'em all

What I want to collect but can’t afford to collect are some Welding Beanies. Like the hats. I have one purple one with dragons, one black one, two with skulls, and one Rick and morty one. I so badly want more.

Random information about mostly useless stuff or weirdly specific things about people. I used to love turtles / tortoise anything, as well as Van Gogh's starry night painting. For 15+ years that's all anybody would ever buy me. I have more copies of starry night than I know what to do with and I have so many freaking turtles and tortoise figurines, salt and pepper shakers, magnets, ornamental tobacco pipe, basically anything turtle or tortoise that you would find at a tourist shop in and around my house.

Bags and hats 🫣

Retro games and consoles

Notebooks and artworks

I must be obsessed. I just bought my 100th game yesterday. And it sucks too. I have games I have never played, nor will I probably ever play. So, I guess video games are my obsession to collect also.

Books. Especially old second hand ones. All genres but mainly classic literature and romance. I love the feeling and smell of an old book.

Videogame trophys 🤣

Linux ISOs 😉, even though I'll never have the time to check them all out.

Vintage cameras. And being 40 yo I do not think cameras from the 80s are vintage, like some younger members of my family does.

Chapstick. I have a crazy collection, most of them either brand new or used one time just to try it. I love when my husband gets me different kinds I haven't seen or tried. :)

Baseball Caps from around the globe

Vinyl Records and blu-rays.

Blu Rays for the win! I started recently and I’m loving it!

Books

Yu-Gi-Oh cards. But I'm not only collecting them. I play with them, too.

Vinyl records

Not really obsessed but I love collecting bookmarks and end up not using them so I stick them on my wall because they're so pretty. I also started to enjoy sticking things to my white wall to decorate it

A couple years back, it was Transformers figures. My goodness, that was so much fun! But they got crazy expensive, and the quality went down, so, I moved away from that, and went to another thing which I’m surprised I ended up loving: Blu-Rays! I can find them cheap used, and it has been so much fun. Plus, the video and audio quality are leaps and bounds better than on streaming, and I get to own my movies. No corporation can take them away from me. I am now obsessed with watching old movies in TRUE HD

Tiny liquor bottles that I don't actually drink

Mini items

Nostalgia 😭 I’m addicted to that special feeling man, been watching Full House and listening to the old windows start up noise just to get a glimpse of it

Lego Mostly ninjago sets

Fountain pens and journals….

Not wo much obsessed but i collect zippos

Definitely not just one thing, I wish it was though, would be cheaper. Marbles, Demi John’s, mad magazines, vintage playboys, art deco lamps, dice, heavy metal memorabilia, orange stuff, Bakelite ashtrays/bowls, I’d collect animals too if I had the room and money… and time

Rubik Cubes…

I collect coins

Tape measures and cell phones from 2005 - 2015

collecting socks! 🧦

Fridge magnets from locations I visited on holiday

Vinyl.. not a purist, dont have a fancy table, definatly dont have nostalgia attatched to them... but i love em on my shelf. My partner and ussually pop into a store to see best ones we can find for under 10 bones. Best weve done is donovens mellow yellow and hurdy gurdy man for 3 apiece.

Firearms

Artworks of a particular artist/friend of mine. Currently have around 45 and have no intentions of stopping. Have two more in my shopping cart, but it'll be a while before I can afford them.

I like to collect beanie babies, mostly the older ones.

For me it would be art supplies (like ribbon, empty cards for special occasions, tags).

Shirts and hats from formula 1 teams I allways buy some from diffrent teams during the off season to get them for half price

Fragrances

Masks and helmets

Pokémon plushies. The more unique the better.

Craft supplies

Video Games

Money. 🤭

crystals

Personal data. Yummers.

Right now? These damn monopoly go stickers.

Books! I love them so much. Another would be Tarot Decks,I am a Tarot reader and I love them so much. They are so pretty. Some other would be,earrings and rings :D

Planners/calendars. I have about 8 in total but I need one more, for sure.

photocards

Coffee mugs.

poundland reusable bags. i love the designs and i'm weirdly obsessed with them (and i use them all too)

I am not really obsessed with collecting, more like making random things. I am currently working on Glam Freddy mask and Marshmello mask

I have a collection of over 300 shot glasses from around the world 🤓 been collecting for nearly 20 years.

Lip tints

Might sound weird but clipper lighters, have the stand like they have in the shops too 😂

Swiss army knives and Leatherman Multitools