Do you collect things for no apparent reason ?

Did you mean Etsy Indinana?
I can't find Easy

Oh yes, I've just noticed I typed Easy instead of Etsy. Sorry! Actually I think it was my stupid iPhone auto-correcting it and I didn't notice at the time. Hope I didn't waste too much of your time scouring the interweb for a non-existent site

Also, might be worth googling the pattern number, e.g. Sirdar 3579 or whatever, and find the cheapest. Some sites I know charge £2.50 for delivery (for a knitting pattern costing roughly the same amount ) while others charge half that.

If it's a specific pattern, though, I doubt Ravelry or Etsy will be much use

No one else has mentioned feeding cups. I've collected them for years. And Davisons glass since I came to the North east. But I've stopped .ive promised DH

Davidson's

Elephants, models of course!

what about wine does nobody collect that? Or perhaps it doesn't last long enough to be called a collectable.

short answer: no.

I collect thimbles, but only from places I`ve visited or a few commemorative ones - Millennium, special ones for grandchildren`s births etc.
They are in two nice glass fronted cases -no dusting needed- and hang on the return of our stairs.
My hubby doesn`t see the point but I know where they came from as the place names are on them and I can recall holidays and stately home visits just by looking at them...is that sad !!!

Him indoors picks up nails and screws if he sees any on roads just in case someone gets a puncture which happened to us a couple of times..bless him !

We did have a bottle of wine for about 20 years - it was given to us, it moved house with us, a sweet wine to go with puddings.

Eventually we gave in and drank it one Christmas and very nice it was too.

Re the pattern, I will wait until I go to Hobbycraft again and buy it there (but it will probably be out of stock!).
I have started something else now with the yarn.

Thank you Indinana

Dust mainly, but I love/miss cigarette cards and tea cards.

Might have something to do with loving cigarettes and tea?

The cards were frequently very beautiful, interesting, and well-written.

Beauty, interest, and good writing all being pretty thin on the ground these days it's hard to believe those cards were such an everyday thing. What we take for granted!

I don't collect them but have been tempted to do so. Probably will do. More than likely will be hopping round to ebay post-posting.

Very sorry to have started in on Gransnet without introducing myself. While the Hiroshima conversation was very emotional, yes, and I felt I had to write quickly-or-never, yes, that's really no excuse for just hurling my thoughts at everyone without the common decency of some form of greeting!

So hello everyone, I'm new(ish) to Gransnet! Wonderful conversations here. Internet for grown-ups, what a nice change! Ta-ra everyone, I'm off to follow the tracks of Players through the wilds of the Woodbines.

Welcome Hap or is it Rosie to GN? How did you choose your name, is Haporth a place and is it up north?

We usually have Profiles about ourselves that some Gransnetters choose to use, but this facility broke down and HQ have chosen IMO not to mend it.

You will find you use up/waste a lot of time on GN, but it starts my day off a treat.

Or is Haporth the expression my west country mum used as a contraction of "half penny worth"

I collect books to read again if I like them, elastic bands that I made a huge ball from and of course I collect dust (keep that under my bed).

I collect vintage sewing machines. Some of them I use but lots just because I like to 'rescue' them and enjoy getting them up and running again if they don't work. The vintage Singers can be so pretty too. I have two in my living room as decoration!
I used to collect owls and had over 100 but got rid of them when we moved as they were just dust collectors.

Hi. I've been reading GN forums & articles for some time now, but have only just found the confidence to post, as this subject is dear to my heart. I'm an only child from a very small family - only 2 cousins left, so everything my parents owned came to me. DH swooped on the massive collection of tools my father left, to add to his huge collection (I'd never understood why men need 6 spirit levels, maybe someone here can enlighten me?). I have Dad's rather large collection of single malt whiskeys because I don't know anyone who drinks it, mum's thimble collection and lace making bobbins, & a library full of books I shall never read. (I have my own large library, which hasn't been added to for a few years now. DH, heartily sick of books everywhere, bought me a Kindle & I haven't looked back.) I am finding it extremely difficult to part with so many memories. I was a Brown Owl many years ago, but DC still buy me owls if they can't think of what to get me. I have well over 200 now, most in boxes in the attic after our move up north. I also have a reasonable amount of Beatles memorabilia, thanks to me taking offspring on the Magical Mystery Tour bus on a visit to Liverpool when they were small. Dad's tin of pens & pencils are too useful to throw, as is Mum's tin of buttons. I have my own, but still love looking through hers for matches for older garments. I could go on, but feel this is probably too much information for a first posting! :-|

As a child, I used to collect all sorts of things. Tea and cigarette cards, military badges, school uniform badges, badges in general, fossils and mineral stones; matchboxes were a great favourite - I saw a collection at an auction viewing recently but don't know how much they went for, if in fact anyone bought them! My childhood collections went the way most do - I moved out and mother moved them into the bin! I notice now GS has started collecting fossils and minerals too (though a lot of them are just stones he picks up on walks!) and DD, similarly to her grandmother, is tearing her hair out!

I collect coloured glass, must be the magpie in me. I have filled my Mum's tall glass fronted cabinet, and have stopped/slowed down lately. I have several pieces of Mdina glass which I love and my oldest are two rose vases, that were Mum's, that someone said could be Nailsea. Just don't know, but as I love them, it doesn't matter. At Christmas, the cabinet looks beautiful when I wind those little battery powered white lights around inside.

Last autumn I sold my collections of powder compacts and bow brooches, that I had collected for 20 or so years.

I still am drawn to buy others that I see, but resist. I have a small collection of 60s/ 70s jewellry. It doesn't take up much room and is fun to wear so I'm hanging on to it!

x

I still have my PG Tips card collection somewhere in the attic ....

Someone gave me a rather strange pendant when I was 16 (well, it was a boyfriend, I will confess ). I still have it for no reason whatsoever 50+ years later.

Yes! Money when I Can!

Apple tarts from Morrisons ( but they don't hang around long in our house).
As we no longer have a Morrisons anywhere near us, whenever we travel and come across one, a large apple tart has to be bought.

I collect coloured sea glass. Living very close to the sea I am on the beach quite often. It looks lovely in pretty jars on my kitchen window sill especially when the morning sun shines directly on to it and I have it in little (school sized) milk bottles on the ridge above my stairs. The little ones go up and down and love looking at it but never touch it.

An extra bonus is that it is free.

A small section of the afore mentioned dolphin collection.