Strange Collections?

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/20/2015 at 13:03 • Filed to: None

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Do any of you Opponauts have a strange habit of collecting things? For example, I keep every 1966 quarter I come across (my birth year) and every Bicentennial quarter I find. I remember when I first saw the 1976 quarter and thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. The country was pretty caught up in Bicentennial fever as it was. So—does Oppo collect anything weird? Not necessarily things to make a set or even a collection, but things you keep just because.

My citroen won't start > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:06

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Headaches.

JR1 > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:09

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I too collect the Bicentennial quarters I find. I also collect Wisconsin quarters because some have an error where they were stamped with an extra ear on the corn cob. I want to find one because they are worth more. Why I collect the normal ones is anyones guess but I do.

BigBlock440 > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:09

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You're a year or two off on the quarters actually being worth anything. '64 or '65 was the last year of the silver quarters, and their worth a few bucks each.

I also keep a bicentennial when I find one, and $2 bills.

FocusedMark > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:12

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I collect Avon cologne decanters which have some car designs which I collect

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:13

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Yeah. It's known as "junk". I'm a bit of a pack rat.

tuner-tom > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:13

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My wife make me throw or yard sale away anything I "would" collect!

Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:14

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Knives and belt buckles. Have a coin collection stuffed somewhere at my mom's house. At this point might as well own up to collection e28 parts as well.

jariten1781 > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:15

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Haha, yeah I hoard 1976 quarters as well. I have over 30 bucks of them in a purple stegosaurus bank I've had since I was 5.

It's not really collecting, but I cruise the free section of craigslist an pick up broken microwaves and repair them. Then I donate them to my Church who either sells them in the thrift shop or donates them to needy families. Because of that I have a ton of 'parts' ones that fill up a good portion of my garage.

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:17

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nope, I'm not OCD...just a normal guy here.

\joke

I have a hard time throwing things away, if that counts.

Nibbles > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:20

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I collect bells

Used to have some nice Waterfords, some really quaint antiques and one that held special sentimental value to me, until my ex-wife got hold of 'em

I'll never forgive her for that, and I'll never rebuild that collection to its previous glory

Short-throw Granny Shifter is 2 #blessed 2b stressed > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:20

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Bottlecaps, but not for any specific reason, and I just put them in a box. If the Fallout series were real, I would be rich. Maybe I'll do something with them eventually.

Also, I still have my Star Wars Pokemon card collections

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:20

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Beer Bottle Caps!

I've been collecting them for years now, I'm going to turn them into art pieces. I have a planned a giant Ford Racing logo for the garage wall and a Block S for Michigan State for the family room.

I need more dark blue still I think though.

Nibbles > FocusedMark 02/20/2015 at 13:20

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Used to have so many of those

FocusedMark > Nibbles 02/20/2015 at 13:23

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I have tons. 2 shelves full of them so far. I usually pick a few up at flea markets if they're cheap enough

WRXerFish - WRX-Wing pilot > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:24

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Wheat Pennies

I have a few without copper that were made during WWII.

Big Bubba Ray > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 02/20/2015 at 13:24

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I collect them also! Have been doing so for three years and countless beers. I gotta figure out what to turn them into though haha

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Big Bubba Ray 02/20/2015 at 13:28

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SUPER rudimentary dot drawing of what my ford racing will look like:

I did this real quick in Pshop the other day, obviously it would look better with proper distances when laid out with real caps. I was trying to get an idea of how big I needed to go to fit in the design because, well frankly you have a fixed dot size with bottle caps so if you don't have room to write out a script Ford, you're screwed. I believe I counted 88 around the outer blue oval. (I did this to scale in Pshop with a 1" paintbrush dot lol, yes i was bored at work that day.) The Blues and reds will vary because of different caps but I think it'll work when seen as a whole.

MonkeePuzzle > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:29

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I collected keys as a youngster. not special keys, just regular old any house key or padlock key or car key or whatever. Had a mountain of them when I moved countries and what was essentially just a pile of metal was scrapped

EL_ULY > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:32

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Don't judge me but.....

Whataburger dine-in numbers :]

not my picture but I do have a bunch :]

For Sweden > EL_ULY 02/20/2015 at 13:34

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Those don't come with the meal.

ttyymmnn > EL_ULY 02/20/2015 at 13:51

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You know you're supposed to give those back, right? You planning to open your own store?

ttyymmnn > WRXerFish - WRX-Wing pilot 02/20/2015 at 13:52

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Those are getting harder and harder to find. I've also got a couple of those steel pennies that I've come across.

EL_ULY > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 13:53

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I know.... but I like them :]

ttyymmnn > HammerheadFistpunch 02/20/2015 at 13:53

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I'm ocd, but with lower case letters.

PushToStart > EL_ULY 02/20/2015 at 13:57

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haha I have a couple of those myself... my favorite one is 69 XD

Gotta love whataburger

ttyymmnn > BigBlock440 02/20/2015 at 14:00

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And I've been spending the '64s and '65s in my jar. I'll have to look for some. The clerk at the cigar store asked me if I wanted a $2 for change the other day. Hell ya! I'm sure she was happy to have it out of her till. I used to have an old $2 bearer note I got from the school lunchroom in about 1977. I lost track of it years ago, though.

Moves-Like-Senna > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 14:00

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I collect cigar labels. I smoke at least one a week on average and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them yet but yes I have hundreds.

ttyymmnn > Moves-Like-Senna 02/20/2015 at 14:02

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I smoke one a day. I'd be buried in bands if I kept them all!

PushToStart > FocusedMark 02/20/2015 at 14:02

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My grandpa used to work in the factory that made those, and at one point he gave me some. Car related ones I have are a Mustang, mail truck, Jeep Wrangler, Ford Ranger, Porsche 911, and an old gas pump. I meant to make a post about them a while back but forgot about it.

They're really neat and unique, I've never really seen anything like them being sold today.

Moves-Like-Senna > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 14:03

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Haha I wish I could do that. Up here cigars start at 11$ for a machine rolled one and about 15$ for a hand rolled one so it adds up quick.

I'm curious where are you located? I'm always looking for smoking buddies haha

fhrblig > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 14:07

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I have kept nearly every pay stub for every paycheck I've ever received. I'm not sure why.

ttyymmnn > Moves-Like-Senna 02/20/2015 at 14:09

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Austin, TX. My daily smoke is a Punch London Club maduro . I get them for just over $2 a stick at the local shop. I need to save some money and just buy a box. Where is "up here" where cigars are so insanely expensive?

ttyymmnn > fhrblig 02/20/2015 at 14:10

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I'm not sure why, either.

Moves-Like-Senna > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 14:16

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Oh wow! I've always wanted to visit Austin and possibly move there. I'm going to see if I can find one of those locally!

I'm in bitter cold Montreal (French Canada). I try and get friends/clients to send or bring me cigars from the travels but it's hard haha. Last night I actually smoked an unbranded cigar from Puerto Rico brought to me by a friends father.

I never thought there would be cigars rolled there, let alone how great it turned out.

ceanderson920 > WRXerFish - WRX-Wing pilot 02/20/2015 at 14:22

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I work at a bank and we have like $200+ worth of wheat pennies that are just chilling in the vault.

ceanderson920 > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 14:24

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I found an old bronze age roman or greek coin when someone brought in a bunch of coin to cash in at the bank I work at. I looked it up and it is worth around $30

ttyymmnn > Moves-Like-Senna 02/20/2015 at 14:27

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Surely there must be less expensive cigars in Montreal. It's not Winnipeg, but heaven's sake!

Cigars are rolled all over the Caribbean. Cuba and the Dominican Republic are the two major exporters. But there are plenty that are rolled here in the US.

Austin is a nice place. Like so many others, I came here to go to graduate school and stayed. We've lived since about 1993.

EL_ULY > PushToStart 02/20/2015 at 14:27

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NIIICE! That is my holy grail card :] Still looking for it

ttyymmnn > ceanderson920 02/20/2015 at 14:28

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Interesting! I've been keeping all the old pre-Euro coins that I find, as well as the few Danish and French scrip that I kept after my trips there. It's only got sentimental value, of course, and that's why I keep it.

ceanderson920 > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 14:35

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Who knows it might be worth something in a couple years or so. I was amazed by how much some coins are worth. There are some older american coins that are worth $100k+! I'm hoping one of those comes through the door someday.

Big Bubba Ray > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 02/20/2015 at 14:44

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Dude, that's awesome! You must have had some free time on your hands to make all those dots haha I'd like to make a Datsun logo of some sort, but only god knows how many more bottle caps that would take

PushToStart > EL_ULY 02/20/2015 at 14:46

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I was so happy when the lady who brought me my food didn't ask for it back... I think she knew how badly I wanted it by looking at my face and just decided to go ahead and let me have it lol

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Big Bubba Ray 02/20/2015 at 14:47

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Hahaha. I've got a big bucket, I spent an hour and a half a week or two ago organizing by their main color. By main color I mean I have 2 different style red caps, some have white lettering, some orange, the main color is the important one that will define how the dot looks, so the lettering doesn't matter it's supposed to be a collage.

I'll definitely do some pics as I work on it (whenever I get the time)

Jagvar > ttyymmnn 02/20/2015 at 14:49

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Antique ocean liner post cards. I have all of the White Star ships (save for a pre-sinking Titanic card....those go for more than $1K), most of the Cunards, and a whole bunch of Italian, German, French, Dutch, Scandinavian, and American ships. A few Greek and Polish ships, too.

WRXerFish - WRX-Wing pilot > ceanderson920 02/20/2015 at 14:52

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I WANNA BUY THEM

ttyymmnn > Jagvar 02/20/2015 at 15:01

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My dad sailed Cunard back in about 1961 when he went to Salzburg to study music at the Mozarteum. He tells the story of when they were docking, in Le Havre, I think, and one of his American shipmates said, "Wow! Look at all the foreign cars!"

ceanderson920 > WRXerFish - WRX-Wing pilot 02/20/2015 at 15:03

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Ha there is a sign on them that say "absolutely no one can have the wheat pennies!"