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wareagle
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« on: July 22, 2008, 05:06:40 PM »

For the record, I am not a packrat and have spent most of my adult life keeping my essential possessions down to a level that would fit in my current vehicle.  (Okay, I've gone from a car to a minivan in those years, so the "stuff" has expanded according to Parkinson's Law.)

But I love cookie cutters.  I have a large collection of them, from the tiny animals on the Ark to a gigantic dragon (about ten inches across) made of gleaming copper.

What do you collect?
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« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2008, 05:08:43 PM »

Books.
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anthroid
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« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2008, 05:55:52 PM »

Books.  And a few owl representations.  And some several hundred record albums.
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« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2008, 06:01:02 PM »

Books and antique beaded evening bags.
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« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2008, 06:02:04 PM »

Rejection letters.
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« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2008, 06:02:22 PM »

Books and antique beaded evening bags.

Oh, I do have several of those, if you count my mother's 1950s bags.  OK, they're sequined and not beaded, but they are so very cool.
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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2008, 06:02:57 PM »

Rejection letters.

What, no books?
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llanfair
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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2008, 06:04:36 PM »

Books.  Especially 18th-century English diaries.
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« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2008, 06:05:12 PM »

What, no books?

Rejection books? That would be cruel. Just send me a brief letter, please.
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« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2008, 06:23:39 PM »

Books.
And old levels from the late 19th/early 20th c.
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« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2008, 06:26:10 PM »

Dust.
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« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2008, 06:28:21 PM »

Dust.

Oh well, that too, yeah.  And cat hair.
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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2008, 06:36:08 PM »

Teapots. In addition to books.
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« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2008, 06:57:02 PM »

Ink pens, books, and cute little serving dishes and ramekins.

I try to keep my collections useful.

Oh, also 1/2 empty bottles of shampoo & conditioner, apparently.
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« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2008, 06:58:48 PM »

memories
turtles (not live ones)
bicycles
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