Wise words RetroTechie. I totally agree about collecting for fun and not for worth later. A lot of my retro collection went into the loft to make space for a family and stayed there. I kept looking at it and thinking it is just wasting away. So I got rid of a lot of it to people who will actually use the hardware. Kept the Vic-20 and Spectrum for that warm personal feeling as they are my 'real' computers that were bought when they were contemporary.
This leads onto Retromads comment. I'm slowly de-cluttering. I too have made my music totally digital purely for space. I got rid of my less 'personal' / least favourite novels and now have a large Kindle collection instead (However the 200 scifi books in my loft I find very hard to let go of, but alas I do enjoy getting a series down and reading through them so they come under the category of 'enjoy'.
All of my old PC / Apple game collection are now on HDD back-ups instead of a large box of CDs.
I'm getting there, the plastic crates in the list a slowly dwindling over the years, but will probably need to speed it up a bit as the road is now allowed to build loft conversions (was not allowed before due to some park by-law of something.) and the first one has gone up. We have always wanted to expand the house and that means less room for my stuff. However there is at least give creates that contain memories for some of the most enjoyable times when I was a teen using a speccy, so they will be factored into a room somehow :)
So I maybe in the forties category but my collection is digital (music, stories and retro games) so I'm also part of the new generation.
When it comes to music, I had to sell all my vinyl after my ma died there was no way to transport it to the US :(
But other than those, I haven't gave a sh*t about tunes for years I could never afford to buy it when I was younger anyway. My physical music collection was tiny and I brought it with me to the US. But all my tunes are digital, basically cos' I don't care that much.
Games I keep, both because of nostalgic reasons, and because they may be worth something, the ones that are worth something I'll never sell anyway because I still play them, but I like to check up on them just so I can see if one is worth stupid amounts of money, then smarm to myself that I own it, and maybe bought it for pennies when some other mug out there is going to pay way more than it was ever worth HAHAHA!!!!!!
I may have mentioned before that I started up karate last year and because I did martial arts before I've pretty much rattled myself to blue belt in double quick time (literally - it's supposed to take two years at this club and I've done it in just over a year) and it's pretty obvious when sparring/training that I've done it before. The problem is - my body's now nearly 25 years older, and although I'm fit it just cannot do what it did all those years ago at the same speed. Plus I'm not the stick insect I was at 19/20.
Never really been a collector though. I used to collect rubbers (the erasable kind!) as a kid. Got them off my mum a couple of years back and my kids have them now.
no surprise.. I have a "ok" collection of old 8 bit / 16 bit machines and a "few" games.. I keep vague for most part, solely because you get people nagging you for things if they know you have them.. only other thing is records , mainly dnb mainly from area's around here in London.
I do buy a lot of synths, as vst's.. but they normally only take drive space.. a friend collects real synths, which I think it crazy :) (and far more expensive)
I don't "collect" anything as such. That word makes me think of pokemon style, "I must have one of each" type of thing.
I certainly accumulate lots of different types of stuff, old computer junk and such. I have all sorts of boxes of tat that I've just never got rid of over the years. I have a few collectible die-cast vans and things but it's not a collection. It's just some stuff on top of my bookshelf :)
That sounds a bit like myself, except for the 'die-cast vans and things', and i also have a small'ish, but treasured collection of Science-Fiction and Fantasy books - around 100 novels at the last count - but sadly they tend to disintegrate after too many readings :(
Furthermore, over the last few years, i have, more or less by chance, started a collection of vintage Texas Instruments calculators from mid- to late 1970's; so far i have acquired a TI Programmable 57 (back in around '79 or '80 it was my very first 'computer' :D ), an SR-40 (the better looking brother of the TI-30), and a TI Business Analyst, plus there's an SR-51-II in transit from USA at this very moment :D.
Finally, being an amateur musician (primarily guitarist) i have also amassed a few guitars over the years: a 6-string and a 12-string western guitar, an Epiphone Les Paul Ultra II (the faded cherry version, and my pride), a cheap chinese or korean Les Paul knock-off with 12 strings, an Alesis X-Guitar (which is a Strat copy with built-in DSP effects processor), and an electric bass guitar. Add to this a couple of synthesizers/keyboards and a bit of small-scale studio gear.
from age about 9 to about 12 I collected souvenir spoons, which is just about the squarest, uncoolest thing any boy can collect. still got them all back at my folks house, in a special cabinet my dad made to put them in. might be worth something one day
Whereas for a while in the late '80s I collected Def Jam records. We should swap usernames!
I wouldn't say I collect anything in particular, just many different interests and hobbies, and hoarding all the stuff that goes with them. My newest hobby is in radio. I have brought myself a Uniden radio scanner, and listern to allsorts on it like air traffic control, buisness radios, and amatuer radio folk chatting to each other, which is leading me into the next part of this hobby, as I'm thinking of taking the course and exam for a foundation licence to become a ham operator
I wouldn't say I collect anything in particular, just many different interests and hobbies, and hoarding all the stuff that goes with them. My newest hobby is in radio. I have brought myself a Uniden radio scanner, and listern to allsorts on it like air traffic control, buisness radios, and amatuer radio folk chatting to each other, which is leading me into the next part of this hobby, as I'm thinking of taking the course and exam for a foundation licence to become a ham operator
Thanks to this thread, I've just added 3 more items to my London Dungeon collection, this time, all from the new site! I'm also bidding on an item from the old site, but that doesn't end until tomorrow.
I could do without the expense to be honest, but these things don't appear very often, so there's no "wait until I can afford it" option.
Some good sense in this thread (and good taste, linking to Hancock's Half Hour!). It's true that collecting can be bad if it becomes a mania (and like other forms of addiction, collecting-mania no doubt creeps up on you without you being aware of it), and it's also true that collections can become something of a curse, big or small. I have hundreds of novels and non-fiction books, and most are packed away as I've no shelf room for them. I also have thousands of ebooks, which take up no space over than some hard drive/DVD-R capacity, and the SD card in my tablet. Though I still don't see why some ebooks cost the same as the physical book, that's just not right.
I collect 50p's (with unusual pictures on) - I have a full set of London 2012 and a fair few others. The don't take up much room. I also used to do the same with £1 and £2 coins, but that got a bit expensive, so I spent them.
The only other thing I would suggest I collect is Retro Gamer mags. I missed out on the original issue 1, so it was good to get the re-issue with number 100.
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This leads onto Retromads comment. I'm slowly de-cluttering. I too have made my music totally digital purely for space. I got rid of my less 'personal' / least favourite novels and now have a large Kindle collection instead (However the 200 scifi books in my loft I find very hard to let go of, but alas I do enjoy getting a series down and reading through them so they come under the category of 'enjoy'.
All of my old PC / Apple game collection are now on HDD back-ups instead of a large box of CDs.
I'm getting there, the plastic crates in the list a slowly dwindling over the years, but will probably need to speed it up a bit as the road is now allowed to build loft conversions (was not allowed before due to some park by-law of something.) and the first one has gone up. We have always wanted to expand the house and that means less room for my stuff. However there is at least give creates that contain memories for some of the most enjoyable times when I was a teen using a speccy, so they will be factored into a room somehow :)
So I maybe in the forties category but my collection is digital (music, stories and retro games) so I'm also part of the new generation.
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But other than those, I haven't gave a sh*t about tunes for years I could never afford to buy it when I was younger anyway. My physical music collection was tiny and I brought it with me to the US. But all my tunes are digital, basically cos' I don't care that much.
Games I keep, both because of nostalgic reasons, and because they may be worth something, the ones that are worth something I'll never sell anyway because I still play them, but I like to check up on them just so I can see if one is worth stupid amounts of money, then smarm to myself that I own it, and maybe bought it for pennies when some other mug out there is going to pay way more than it was ever worth HAHAHA!!!!!!
i really enjoyed it.
I may have mentioned before that I started up karate last year and because I did martial arts before I've pretty much rattled myself to blue belt in double quick time (literally - it's supposed to take two years at this club and I've done it in just over a year) and it's pretty obvious when sparring/training that I've done it before. The problem is - my body's now nearly 25 years older, and although I'm fit it just cannot do what it did all those years ago at the same speed. Plus I'm not the stick insect I was at 19/20.
Never really been a collector though. I used to collect rubbers (the erasable kind!) as a kid. Got them off my mum a couple of years back and my kids have them now.
I do buy a lot of synths, as vst's.. but they normally only take drive space.. a friend collects real synths, which I think it crazy :) (and far more expensive)
That sounds a bit like myself, except for the 'die-cast vans and things', and i also have a small'ish, but treasured collection of Science-Fiction and Fantasy books - around 100 novels at the last count - but sadly they tend to disintegrate after too many readings :(
Furthermore, over the last few years, i have, more or less by chance, started a collection of vintage Texas Instruments calculators from mid- to late 1970's; so far i have acquired a TI Programmable 57 (back in around '79 or '80 it was my very first 'computer' :D ), an SR-40 (the better looking brother of the TI-30), and a TI Business Analyst, plus there's an SR-51-II in transit from USA at this very moment :D.
Finally, being an amateur musician (primarily guitarist) i have also amassed a few guitars over the years: a 6-string and a 12-string western guitar, an Epiphone Les Paul Ultra II (the faded cherry version, and my pride), a cheap chinese or korean Les Paul knock-off with 12 strings, an Alesis X-Guitar (which is a Strat copy with built-in DSP effects processor), and an electric bass guitar. Add to this a couple of synthesizers/keyboards and a bit of small-scale studio gear.
I think that about covers my 'collections' :)
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Whereas for a while in the late '80s I collected Def Jam records. We should swap usernames!
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I could do without the expense to be honest, but these things don't appear very often, so there's no "wait until I can afford it" option.
No idea what I'm going to do with them though :))
The only other thing I would suggest I collect is Retro Gamer mags. I missed out on the original issue 1, so it was good to get the re-issue with number 100.