Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Imelda Marcos-esque Collections

By: Mikki

Mikki — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:49:00 +0000

You MISSPELLED THE WORD ” MALACANANG “. IT’S SPELLED WITH A G! I USED UPPER CASE SO THAT I CAN GRAB YOU ATTENTION. :D

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:29:00 +0000

Now I know why I can never find egg-cups in gift shop. All you guys snarfed them up…

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:01:00 +0000

I collect dust. I keep it on most of the surfaces in my apartment. Sometimes I consolidate it all in a duster, but then I let it build up again. :-)

Recaptcha is quahog 1964. I suppose that’s a reminder that people also collect shells.

By: kai

kai — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:32:00 +0000

I used to collect rocks. Any that i found that were unusual looking, different colors, textures. Also, rocks from different vacations I took as a child. That was a great collection.

By: effess

effess — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:41:00 +0000

I collect spores, molds, and funguses. :)

By: Corrine

Corrine — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:42:00 +0000

I have a couple hundred bouncy balls.
I keep them in large glass jars.
Most still bounce.
And you might be surprised at the variety in size and shape.

By: Anthony Cerminaro

Anthony Cerminaro — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:38:00 +0000

Celebrated celebrity collector, Andy Warhol, collected stuff, lots of stuff. The highlight of the archives collection of the Andy Warhol Museum is his Time Capsules. This serial work, spanning a thirty-year period from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, consists of 610 standard sized cardboard boxes, which Warhol, beginning in 1974, filled, sealed and sent to storage. Warhol used these boxes to manage the bewildering quantity of material that routinely passed through his life.

Photographs, newspapers and magazines, fan letters, business and personal correspondence, art work, source images for art-work, books, exhibition catalogues, and telephone messages, along with objects and countless examples of ephemera, such as announcements for poetry readings and dinner invitations, were placed on an almost daily basis into a box kept conveniently next to his desk

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:02:00 +0000

When I was a kid, I collected heart shaped rocks and dolls. I also collected foreign currency for a while because my grandmother thought it would be a good hobby for me, but i thought it was boring.
I don’t really collect anything (mainly because I live in a 400 sq ft apartment) But I really like vintage toys, the creepier, the better. I have a small collection on my bookshelf, and I use them in paintings a lot. Some of my dolls I collected as a child have moved to my creepy toy collection. I think if I ever move I might officially start collecting creepy toys. I’d really like to get one of those old wind up monkeys that bangs the cymbols!

My father collects anything from the Toy Story movies. He has all the burger king/mcdonald toys from both movies and he used to dress up like Woody for Halloween. My mother collects sand from beaches and puts in it little bottles in thier kitchen.

I don’t think I could ever be one of those people that spent thousands of dollars for something in their collection, but I do love finding an old little toy or doll that has a lot of personality at yard sales. it’s like finding a mini treasure.

By: BG

BG — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:34:00 +0000

My husband collects wind chimes and cribbage boards. We have tons of wind chimes both inside and out, although we try to keep the outside ones to a minimum–don’t want to drive the neighbors nuts on a windy day. I love the summertime because we open the windows and they all start going. We can tell which one’s are ringing by the sound and we place them over the heating and A/C ducts to make them ring. Of course, we haven’t bought any for a long time, because we get them as gifts from friends and family. Problem is we’re running out of room to put them up–and they get really dusty. We also collect cribbabe boards. We have one made from deer antlers and one made from a cypress tree slice–really cool. One that my husband made from a walnut tree he cut down, one that was part of a coffee table and a few just plain boards.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:59:00 +0000

My family has a collection of rocks. Whenever we go on vacation, we find a rock to bring home. The family that we bought our house from did the same thing, and our driveway and patio are lined with rocks found on family vacations. Anywhere from the basketball sized river rock we found in Missouri (it’s perfectly round, and dad had to carry it nearly a mile back to the car) to the fistful of volcanic pebbles mom brought back from hawaii. One place we visited even had signs posted that anyone caught “stealing” rocks from the public beach would be ticketed. Naturally, we all had to take a rock.