What tactics do you use to collect things?

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I used to collect all things "strawberry" and now my kitchen and dining room look like a strawberry-themed museum.
I'm sick of strawberries but now I can't get my NT relatives to stop giving me strawberry items as gifts (I am extremely difficult to shop for, so I guess they feel they must stick with something proven).

I have always collected books. Literature, fiction, in subjects that interest me.

The past year or so I have been collecting historical fiction concerning ancient and pre-medieval Britain.

I dont collect things, i just live in borders.

If you do a web search for ancient and
medieval coin search.....

http://www.vosper4coins.co.uk/

this should give you some tidbits of interest!

That's cool! I use to frequent them for
research for years. Between coffee, water,
Chocalate chip cookies and books, it was
like my living room called a wifi-library.

The ones I went to were the ones on
Powell and Post, and 3rd and Townsend!

Fenris, I like Wittgenstein as well. Although, I don't know much about past philosophers any more than one philosophy class on the modern era. However, Wittgenstein was mentioned and I read a bit about him. Apparently, it is thought that he may have been HFA.

Anywho, I collect BOOKS and movies and really anything which FEELS like a collectible. Anything which has other related items is potentially such a "collectible". But currently, books are my big thing.

And also beginning to expand my Brit coms DVD collection.

My catch phrase throughout my life: I have to have the WHOLE collection.

I collect cards, money (pocket change and foreign coins, not bills), computer books (new interest), and am currently looking for the book "The Phantom of the Opera" was based on. Saw it in school library and checked it out, neve had enough time to finish it. I used to collect TCG's for awhile. Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, I always won.

My aspie 11yo collects Pokemon cards. Thousands of Pokemon cards. And astronomy books.

I have The Phantom of the Opera in its original book form (um, but I don't mean the 1st edition-- I wish...)...

7" and 12" vinyl records, LPs, tapes, CD's and DVDs.

The music is by title eg. particular songs I like and I also buy compilation CDs and CDs by favourite artists eg. Eels, Coldplay, REM.

I taped a lot of stuff over the radio over the years but haven't done any for about 3 years as that is about the time I really got seriously into collecting vinyl records and CDs.

I like British comedies on DVD eg. "Mind Your Language" and "Are You Being Served?".

I also collect stamps and coins (but not so often), marbles, wishing stones, semi-precious stones, glass and ceramic tiles, baby dolls, cat figurines, postcards, other cards (I've kept just about all the Christmas and birthday cards I was ever given) and books.

Then, I also have 4 pet cats and 15 pet fancy rats plus about 30 potted plants.

Interests.

DVDs- I am very picky about movies, and if I begin to collect DVDs in a set, I have to finish the set. Buying one or two discs is a no-no.

Books- Sometimes I get into one author, and read everything that he or she has written that I am able to get my hands on, then move onto another one.

God no. That would be an unthinkable, incomprehensible sin. One has to have the WHOLE collection. Otherwise, there is no point at all.