I find that most people in my life have at least one “thing” they are collecting. It is often an insight into their personality and it is fun to hear people talk about something they are passionate about.
Comic books. I learned to read when I was 2, but there wasn’t a ton of reading material for 2 year olds.
Back then, comic books were only a quarter and soooo… 52 years later…
The big one:
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Hey just wondering if you saw this video about the Donald Duck artist by matttt?
Just happened upon it yesterday so it coincedentally makes me think you and your community might like it.
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I didn’t, but the video is kind of strange for me because from at least the 80s forward everyone knew who Carl Barks was. There were compilations under his name and all sorts of reprints and such.
Bonus: At the end of his life, he lived like 80 miles away from me. (!)
What an awesome collection! Funny question, but do you by any chance have these backed up? Personally would be so scared that anything of the physical copies would be damaged or ruined by a house fire for example… Guess I’m a little paranoid 😅
Insurance, bug-out boxes, and digital copies. Yes. :)
I donated one to charity a couple years back, but I used to have two copies of the Spawn EWU cover variant. I suspect I was the only person on the planet to have two of those. Not sure what to do with the other one it’s the only comic I own and I’ve never even opened it
Only 400 copies of that made, not super valuable given the limited run:
https://www.keycollectorcomics.com/issue/spawn-232-2,314047/
You could send it out to have it professionally graded, that would help.
Finding proper value on it has been difficult because there are so few you almost never see them for sale. The most I’ve ever been offered for mine is $7k, ungraded. I’ve definitely seen them sell for way less though it’s just so rare I think the data isn’t very reliable. Very much a ‘how much is it worth to the specific collector at that time’
Edit to add, how tf do I actually get this thing graded? I tried years ago and they sent it back to me after months of back and forth because they couldn’t figure out how much it was worth so they didn’t know how much to charge me. The whole situation was a mess
The grading isn’t about assessing value, it’s about condition. There are multiple grading companies out there who will grade the book and seal it to prevent it degrading.
You can talk with them directly or go through a local comic shop who does grading to get it done.
CGC is the big one:
https://www.cgccomics.com/CBCS is #2:
https://www.cbcscomics.com/There are others, but for terms of increasing the value of the book, you want one of those two.
https://www.pfadvice.com/2023/04/18/the-6-best-comic-book-grading-and-slabbing-companies/
The fee CGC charges though is based on the value of the item. The reasoning I got was because they couldn’t determine a value they didn’t know what to charge for their fee and eventually I just told them to send it back (this was after months of trying to figure it out). It has been a while though so maybe better luck this time around? I didn’t know about CBCS either so might just try them thank you for the suggestion
As a kid, we were so poor, it was scary. I remember living in a car, having to choose between going hungry or eating food that was past its prime, and learning Santa wasn’t real too young (I couldn’t understand why my friends got expensive dream gifts… I thought I had been good)
After going through all that and my mom overdosing, I started collecting things that would accumulate value or were an investment. Comic books and figurines are my go to, but I’ve also got machines for creating cosplays (as that’s my career now). I won’t buy anything that I can’t pawn off in an emergency to survive, or use it to make money. I really should have been collecting coins/gold/silver, but I picked what was fun.
Also, shoutout to my elementary school’s lunch lady, who noticed a tiny, thin girl using the free lunch program, and offered her seconds, after everyone else had been served. I don’t think she knows how much she touched my life.
I collect hobbies.
Steam library
Those damned Steam sales and humble bundles…
^ This. I have 3,225 games on Steam and I’m always finding more that I want to try out.
No need for game pass when I already got a collection already.
I collect unfinished projects.
Ubisoft and EA: Mmmm fresh meat.
I like to collect “hacked” retro consoles. It’s so cool to see them in action and what people were able to do with them.
I’m also into the retro scene, I just got my first console mod done. Whats your favorite system you have?
I’d have to go with the PS3, 3DS, and Wii. I know that’s three, but they each have qualities that I just absolutely adore that I can’t choose!
It’s crazy that those consoles could be considered retro nowadays
You’re telling me!
I’ve had the same Wii since I was a child though, so… it does hurt my knees to know that it is a retro console these days. 🥲
Dude I was working at Gamestop when the Wii came out, you’re telling me.
I’ve gotten into selfhosting lately, and my newest obsession is setting up a browser based emulator that I can access from anywhere and basically play 3 games - contra, balloon fight, and caddilacs & dinosaurs
Edit - I mean play legally backed up copies of these games :)
I have a lot of small bottles and vials waiting to be filled. It started decades ago when I found a quaint little glass tube with a stopper in an antique shop at my favorite beach town and thought it’d be nice to take home some sand from my favorite spot, thereafter becoming a tradition for subsequent visits. Now I pick one up whenever I see one to have a cache available for any future adventures.
Thats a really cool idea! Like a science lab of memories. Might have to grab a vial if I see one thrifting/antiqueing
It’s super easy to just collect then when you see them (even at craft stores and plant shops) and then it ends up kinda encouraging you to think up adventures so you can fill them.
I’ve got some with sand, dirt, ocean/lake water, gravel, some with just air (captured a cloud/fog while high atop a mountain), tears, paper, burnt campfire wood, etc.
My secret sauce is that I don’t label them so I have to try to call up the origin story in memory and I get an excuse to tell a tale whenever someone asks me about one.
Misery. I collect misery.
Knives. I don’t know why.
I started collecting knives which evolved into balisongs which I love to flip
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I’m with you on the houseplants, starting to branch out (lol) into hoyas now.
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I collect ttrpgs! I love reading how mechanics work together and I’ve never found value in collecting things I don’t use, so ttrpgs it is. Plus there are some really wild ones out there that are fun to look at. It started with 3.5/Pathfinder but eventually I branched out to a couple other games that I like to play. I spend the most effort on my Car Wars collection, think I’m going to try getting a complete set of ADQ on that front next.
My single prized book so far though is a copy of HōL’s supplement buttery wholesomeness. Specifically the second printing of it with the cover that’s written like BUTTery HOLsomeness which ended up being so hard to track down over like 5 years that I started to question if it even had a physical printing or if it was just in PDF form. Finally found the thing though last year
Always love the feeling of finally tracking down a grail :^)
Any scifi ttrpg books you’d recommend from your collection? I always love reading those.
Depends what you’re in the mood for:
- I personally love Paranoia. It is very much a comedy game but it can be played with a serious take with the right work. Plus it is just a fun read even if you don’t play it.
- Rifts is pretty baller conceptually but I don’t have first hand experience playing it.
- GURPS has a Car Wars crossover making it objectively one of the best games, can be played with any level of tech, and has buckets of supplements.
- The Burning Wheel is more fantasy but the book is basically a philosophy of play which could be adapted to lots of things, and the same author wrote Burning Empires which is more scifi but I haven’t acquired that one so can’t give first hand info on it either.
- Can’t forget Car Wars. It is scifi though it is a mix of ttrpg and strategy/board. If you want to drive a car off a cliff while dropping mines on a helicopter as you go by and have your robot gunner leaning out the window shooting lasers at a tank it is the way to go.
- Finally I’ll pitch HōL because the game is just so unhinged. It is all hand written and scanned, it’s edgy and crass, and is a great parody of roleplaying games. It’s engaging and fun to read with great art but realistically quite difficult to functionally play because the rules are intentionally a mess. The Buttery Wholesomeness supplement added character creation rules which don’t exist in the base game because it is a mess.
Sounds like a dope collection if you have this much of one genre! Thanks for the recs.
I’m rather proud of it. Resolution isn’t great but here we go:
Main roleplaying shelf:
Board games and box sets:
I’ve also got all 3 books for Monsters of Murka, limited covers, signed by several of the people who worked on it. I think my copies of Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Mork Borg are on other shelves. Finally, an unopened box set for Boat Wars which I’ll be opening sometime soon so I can pretend I lived in the 80s and just came home with a box from the lgs.
No, possessions are annoying to have, you just have to clean them, worry about them the more you have.
“That’ll be very handy in the future!”
I collect everything material-ish
My wife and I collect souvenir lapel pins from places we travel to. We write the date on the back, and keep them in a shadow box on the wall in chronological order.
It’s nice as it’s not very expensive to buy them, and they don’t take up a lot of space to keep, and we have a nice little history of our travels at a glance.
