Collecting stuff

[Hardrock93]

[QUOTE 2797472, member: 259"]40 years of a single mag would be really interesting, going through the years and seeing how things like the adverts and prices of things change over time)...[/quote]

Funny you should mention that. I started buying 'Bike' (the motorcycle magazine) in the early 70s. I have never thrown one out and only stopped getting it when I got back into cycling a couple of years ago. My wife has an irrational fear that someday this accidental and weighty collection will come crashing down on us from the attic.

 

[User169]

@Delftse Post who is you avatar pic? I have fallen in luuurve with her/it/(you??)

Shelley Conn!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Conn

Shes one of my famous Amazingstoker series of avatars.

 

[Crackle]

Shelley Conn!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Conn

Shes one of my famous Amazingstoker series of avatars.

I look forward to seeing how tenuous that gets

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Funny you should mention that. I started buying 'Bike' (the motorcycle magazine) in the early 70s. I have never thrown one out and only stopped getting it when I got back into cycling a couple of years ago. My wife has an irrational fear that someday this accidental and weighty collection will come crashing down on us from the attic.

Irrational?!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-16166722

 

[swee'pea99]

Irrational?!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-16166722

Last line of that's definitely a contender in this week's No shoot Sherlock Awards

 

[DCLane]

I seem to be collecting bikes (up to 5 now on an agreed limit of 3), but I'm guessing that doesn't count

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I seem to have bought a 35 year old sticker album with 33 missing stickers tonight. For 12 quid.

 

[Irish_Marty]

I have an unwanted collection of presta valve dust caps. Does that count?

Me too and a load of lock nuts.

 

[asterix]

I have a collection of tools, etc from Britain's industrial past. They have to be well designed, made in Britain (obviously) and useful. Pre-war stuff is usually the best in terms of build quality. It wasn't a deliberate thing, it was a money-saving exercise at first then I realised what good value the stuff could be. My best item is a Tyzack workbench from the 1920s or 30s with a Record vice.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I seem to have aquired a collection of idiots in my life

 

[PaulB]

Tickets. I regret to have thrown away a lot of them from early matches and shows but some survived those days and I've collected tickets from everything I've seen since 1980. I've got football matches big and small, live acts, bands, comedians, plays, theatre performances, all sorts and the storage box has had to grow over the years and I'm now due a bigger one as we saw Sean Lock last week and those two tickets would be the final straw-type thing.

 

[Hardrock93]

Irrational?!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-16166722

Scary!

As if I needed further proof that Mrs Hardrock is the custodian of common sense in this partnership.

 

[Aperitif]

I seem to have aquired a collection of idiots in my life

Yes me too...until I took down the mirrors. Now there's only two of us, and we meet occasionally.

 

[Smurfy]

[QUOTE 2797411, member: 9609"]I used to collect Munros (full set now) and Corbets(half way), have now moved onto collecting roads cycled LINK, and I have started to collect birds photographed. Replaced my original Red Shank with this one this afternoon

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Great map you've got there, and I see you've been up a few dead ends (deliberately I assume!). Is it your own personal website, or can anyone create a map like that?

 

[Saluki]

I have a small collection of Tintin stuff. All the books in English and French, some very old. Little figures, cards, biscuit tins, lapel pins etc. I have not gone mad though, they all live on the bookshelf and I have limited myself to just the one bookshelf as our flat is small.