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“What Do You Collect?”: User Asked Pandas To Show Their Collections And 50 People Delivered
People just love collecting things, no matter what. And it's really amazing how different each collection is from one another. Some collect stamps, others toys, and others go even further and create their own ideas for a collection.
Which is why I thought it would be interesting to see what Bored Panda community members are collecting, and I wasn't disappointed. Some collections were really bizarre in an awesome way, some collections were more standard, but still very exciting to see. Without a doubt, there's a collection for anything one might conceive of.
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#2
Kodak Cameras
Final score:
232points
#3
Original 50s-60s Lesney Matchbox Cars And 8 (So Far) Of The Original Sweet Sixteen Hot Wheels
Final score:
221points
#5
I Love Lunchboxes
Final score:
196points
#7
Pez Dispensers. This Pic Represents About 20% Of My Actual Collection Started 5 Years Ago
Final score:
187points
#9
Rocks & Minerals! I Don’t Believe In Chakras And Stuff Like That, I Just Think They’re Cool
Final score:
187points
#10
I Collect Vintage Glass! Here's My Whole Collection So Far
Final score:
186points
#11
Plants !!! Almost 40 Baby Indoor Plants. Many Were Found And Saved. Here Is A Small Sample
Final score:
186points
#12
Art. A Lot Of Art. For The Last 35 Years, We've Been Buying Art. This Is One Wall. We Live In A Four Story Town House. The Stairwells Are Full
Final score:
167points
#13
Watercolor Addiction - I Own More Paints Than I Can Use In This Lifetime
Final score:
165points
#14
Tlr Cameras! They're All Functional, And My Oldest Is From WWI
Final score:
156points
#15
As Many Really Cool Toys From The 60s And 70s As My Time Left On This Earth Will Allow
Final score:
149points
#17
20th Century Toy Sewing Machines And 19th And 20th Century Sewing Implements. This Is A Tiny Sample!
Final score:
135points
#18
Starbucks 'You Are Here' Mugs- Collected From All The Places I've Been, With A Couple From Places I Haven't Given To Me As Gifts
Final score:
133points
Tracy Wallick (Submission author) 3 years ago
My favorite one is the San Diego mug, which is my hometown
#19
I Collect Nostalgia From My 80’s/90’s Childhood
Final score:
133points
#20
Artwork. More Spread Around The House And Probably Another Dozen Or So Prints Waiting To Be Framed. I Need More Walls!
Final score:
129points
#21
Fountain Pens. This Is An Older Photo, I Have Quite A Few More Now.
Final score:
128points
#22
I Collect Gemstones From All Over The World!
Final score:
123points
#23
My Spoon Collection From When I Started Traveling Around 1970. Very First One Was Rhode Island. There Are Three More Walls Like This In My Dining Room. Cuba Is My Favorite
Final score:
120points
#24
I Have Over 1000 Penguin Related Items. I've Been Collecting Them Since I Was Less Than 2 Years Old. These Are Just The Ornaments.
Final score:
118points
#25
Vinyl Lps And 45's
Final score:
113points
#26
1,685 Funko Pops (Many Not Pictured) W/ 82 More Preordered Between Now & September
Final score:
111points
#27
Teacups From Thrift Stores. I Have Two Favorites. The One Commemorating King George Vi And Queen Elizabeth’s Visit Canada In 1939 ($8.00 At A Thrift Store In Winthrop, Wa), And The One Commemorating Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation June 02, 1953 ($5.50 At A Thrift Store In Spokane, Wa).
Final score:
107points
Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago
Oh brilliant, I like these and thrift stores the best place to buy them. I presume a Thrift store is what we call a charity shop in the UK? I had an Edward the V111 coronation cup but he was never crowned and some idiot broke it.
#28
Yoga Pants... Lots And Lots Of Yoga Pants (This Is About Half Of Them...)
Final score:
103points
#29
I Collect 'Space Age' Design Clocks, From The Late 60's And Early 70's
Final score:
103points
#30
Late 19th And Early 20th Century Engineering & Technical Books
Final score:
100points
#32
Stormtroopers
Final score:
97points
#33
Antique Blown Glass De Carlini Christmas Ornaments
Final score:
96points
#34
Xenomorphs, The Runner And Warrior On The Top Were The First Ones I Got And Were Also The Very Last Gifts I Ever Received From My Late Wife
Final score:
95points
Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago
I'm so sorry for your loss, but happy that you have a reminder every day of her love for you.
#36
Stuffed Animals. Yes, I’m Obsessed. My Fave One Is The Sleeping Winnie The Pooh (The One With A Purple Outfit)
Final score:
90points
#38
Bromeliads Are My Garden Jewellery
Final score:
85points
#39
Biirrrddsss (I Have More But They Didn't Fit In One Pic)
Final score:
84points
#40
Novels!(I Am A Book Worm Soooo Just Started A Year Ago^-^)
Final score:
79points
#42
Glass Animals
Final score:
68points
Tim 2 years ago
If you would like to laugh VERY hard, listen to the sketch done by the Second City called Glass Mamet. It's Glass Menagerie as if David Mamet wrote it. Mamet wrote Glengary Glenross.
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Mad Dragon 3 years ago
Is that third shelf a bunch of Tetley Tea animals? I’ve collected those since I was a little girl.
chrissy goodman (Submission author) 3 years ago
i also think that the ones i have they stopped making. i looked into some of them and i didnt kno wen i got them cuz i was a kid but i have collection sets that go for like $5000 if u find the right collector. i have some on the first and second shelf too. i got each of them for like $1 or $2 so to think a group of 5 is worth 5k is crazy but they r like 26 years old the 2 china cats on the 4th shelf r even older. they r from ww2 time frame. my grandpa got them for my grandma who gave them to my mom who set them up in my room wen i was a baby and now i have them. the duck on the 4th was my dads mothers idk how old it is tho. the unicorn on the 2nd shelf is probably the oldest its a christmas ornament my grandma had since she was a little girl, shes 92 now so that says just about how old it is lol
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Wynter wolf 2 years ago
Woah my grandparents have a cabinet just like that (with glass animals in it)
chrissy goodman (Submission author) 3 years ago
very comfy. its the same material as one of those velvet like blankets
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Cute Notebooks. 54 In Total. Almost Half Of Them Still In The Packaging
Final score:
65points
s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago
There are fabled, rainbow hologram mylar covered notebooks ...may you find some on your next quest.
#44
Pokémon Cards, I Also Have A Second Case
Final score:
61points
Annabeth Chase 3 years ago
My uncle gave me that case full of his old cards for my birthday a few years ago
#45
A Quick Sample Of My Broom Collection!
Final score:
61points
#48
My Vintage Toys And Cultural Dolls/Knick-Knacks Collections!
Final score:
52points
Verena Gitterle 3 years ago
The Geisha is beautiful, I like the russian dolls and is that one a Miss Piggy?
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Rench 3 years ago
No matter what you do that you might think is weird, there is always someone else that does it too
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Momogi 2 years ago
Yes, but dont hoard them all.. Save it for the rest of us
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Brett Connor 3 years ago
At this point for me, Gray hair and trying to get rid of all the stuff I collected.
Brivid 2 years ago
Yes, I know what you mean. I think when my mother died I realized I can't take any of it with me. And my family will have to deal with it. Idk, could just be the grief talking.
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Anna Te 3 years ago
It's interesting,a lot of people are collecting a lot of stuff. I wonder, is it some kind of human need to do so? I can imagine,back in the day, the Annas who came before me ,collected rocks, shells, feathers or shiny metals just for the satisfaction to look at them,feel them, maybe lay them down in a specific order or gift them to someone special. What a most pleasant thought 😊
Okasan Willis 3 years ago
I collect fountain pens. Starting with the one my grandfather who was a doctor used.
Paul Rabit 2 years ago
I collect stones from all the places I’ve traveled. They are all labeled. I’m going to will the collection to my nieces and nephews with the request that they return the stones to their original location. That way I get to encourage them to see the world, and I get be a small part of their travels after I’m gone.
Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago
I collect so many things it's ridiculous. I have been a vintage reseller for many years and now also run estate sales. I collect: Vera Neumann scarves and textiles, vintage purses, vintage printed cotton tablecloths and napkins, vintage kitchenwares, art, mid-century era cats in art and figurines, MCM furniture, CathrineHolm enamelware, antique spatter enamelware, 1950s enamelware(can you tell I like enamelware?) vintage brooches and bangles, 1950s-60s bar ware, mid-century ceramic antelopes, swug glass vases, vintage clothing...there's probably more things but really that's enough. lol Our house looks like a mid-century modern time warp.
Rozlyn G Wright 2 years ago
I just found a Vera in my drawer. Was my Grams.
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Seabeast 3 years ago
I've never really been bitten by the collection bug. When I have up to 3 or 4 of an item, I usually feel that's enough and I don't need any more.
The lesbian knitting panda 2 years ago
I collect cuddlies (another word for stuffed animals), mugs, rare money (largely British thing) and pin badges :)
DDmaybeandor 2 years ago (edited)
It’s crazy. I grew up in a hording house and just looking at the first 10 pictures made my feel physically ill. What a surprising guttural reaction. I’m glad collecting things bring some people joy. It makes me want to set a building on fire, but you do you boo.
Elvira Dirge 2 years ago
I wish I had contributed to this one. I have a great monster collection! Our whole house is filled with monster art, figurines, and collectibles.
John Louis 2 years ago
I used to collect comic books (6000 of them) and now I am a magician (tons of it). I believe collectors live their life with passion!
lapis lazuli 2 years ago
i collect rabbit stuffed animals. my collection is at 26 right now but im fifteen so it will just grow haha
Rick Seiden 2 years ago
Decks of playing cards. I have over 400 unique decks in my collection. https://rickscards.blogspot.com/
Tuncer Coşar 3 years ago
Collecting books. Well, isn't it a common thing for everyone who has a bookshelf?
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen (Post author) 3 years ago
I already made a post, but something else I collect is those rainbow loom bracelets. I make and collect them, and I do the same with the bracelets you make with string.
Maria Mendez 2 years ago
I have an extensive collection of textiles (i'm a quilter; i collect fabric, which i cut into small pieces, then sew into quilts)
Trevor Nicholson 2 years ago
I collect books, which I intend to eventually read. It doesn't sound like much but during the pandemic especially, I go in to trying to find works of fiction (translated to English) from as many countries as possible. I'm up to 154 and I'm particularly fond of the ones that were very challenging to find or actually acquire like North Korea, Eritrea, Laos, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, and Cape Verde. And finding ones written in their national languages. A lot of writers from former Soviet countries write in Russian or German because of a broader audience, so finding works originally in Ukrainian or Georgian was a feat. And India, English is most available, so finding ones originally written in Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Bengali, that was an accomplishment.
#iwriteitall 2 years ago
I collect pencils from all over the world they have to say. The destination on the pencil there's also a few pens because pencils are becoming alot harder to get hold of I started when I was 7 people also buy me them from around the world to.
Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago
I collect those mumin-mugs (pretty common in my country) and get childishly excited when a new one come out (twice a year, the season ones). And fridge magnets from every new place I visit. I love to look at them and keep the memories alive from each trip.
Geeki Nikki 2 years ago
The only thing I collect are playbills and ticket stubs from all the musicals I've seen. I've seen 25+ shows live. Ofc I've seen a lot more thanks to the magic of cinema. But id love to add more to my collection!
Derek Clark 2 years ago
I have the entire collection of Elfquest comics, the Dutch ones and the American ones, as well as the other Elfquest items. I don't have everything yet of the collection but I'm getting there
Lightning_Thief 2 years ago
I collect books! I’ve been working on completing my Rick Riordan mythology collection!
AnotherBoredPanda 2 years ago
I collect Funko's, cd's, playmobils, and stuffed animals (specially cats!)
A Jones 2 years ago
I collect a few things. Kind of gather them from my adventures. Art, Shot glasses from places I visited, tiny figurines, horror movies, and plushes (including beanie babies). All these things I like and my place is oddly organize and clean. lol thank you for the existence of shelves.
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
I'm surprised not to see Euro coins here, people used to collect those, maybe it's not a thing anymore? Or wasn't allowed to be posted for some reason?
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
I have over 600 silver charms (of which 43 are mechanical), about 200 pieces of Vollrath enamelware (I use some to cook with but many are unused), metal Band-Aid boxes (including examples of the first three they ever used and two intact WW2 Band-Aid brand first aid kits), and every Harry Potter Lego set from the first 3 movies unopened.
Margrete Sonnenberg 2 years ago
My mom collects red rose tea teapot collectables. Just missing 14.
Sue Lynn Chan 2 years ago
I mostly collected key chains from different countries but now I have to wait till I can finally travel
Lily bloom 2 years ago
I have a collection of collections. The Little Prince (40+), Tupperware (600+), Lily Bloom bags (50+), Lego, duplo, books (~1500), games (board, card, etc ~500), lularoe leggings (~100), yard decorations (metal, plaster, wood, etc 50+)
Sarjana Lastname 3 years ago (edited)
I collect balls, small ones so it fits to hand. Collection has industrial made balls like roll-on ball and ball from mice to hand made glass and color stone. I never ever buy those, couple from hundreds. It is almost religious experience when you found da ball from ground, it like comes to me. You can find ball from anywhere, abandoned places, center of city, recent balls are from houses what I have rented, glass and plastic, wooden and iron. Once I steal ball because I got lost from forest to cabin's yard, and there it was 9 cm diameter hollow black plastic ball waiting for me, screaming take me! That was also so that ball dint have any function, it was light, can fly around the yard, it didint have any context what i would have noticed in that please. this was good example from religious experience, i was so abashed what i saw, i got lost and then what i found missing black ball from my collection. Value is 50 cents so I did'nt think much i just took it :) and walk same way back.
Rench 3 years ago
No matter what you do that you might think is weird, there is always someone else that does it too
Load More Replies... Momogi 2 years ago
Yes, but dont hoard them all.. Save it for the rest of us
Load More Replies... Brett Connor 3 years ago
At this point for me, Gray hair and trying to get rid of all the stuff I collected.
Brivid 2 years ago
Yes, I know what you mean. I think when my mother died I realized I can't take any of it with me. And my family will have to deal with it. Idk, could just be the grief talking.
Load More Replies... Anna Te 3 years ago
It's interesting,a lot of people are collecting a lot of stuff. I wonder, is it some kind of human need to do so? I can imagine,back in the day, the Annas who came before me ,collected rocks, shells, feathers or shiny metals just for the satisfaction to look at them,feel them, maybe lay them down in a specific order or gift them to someone special. What a most pleasant thought 😊
Okasan Willis 3 years ago
I collect fountain pens. Starting with the one my grandfather who was a doctor used.
Paul Rabit 2 years ago
I collect stones from all the places I’ve traveled. They are all labeled. I’m going to will the collection to my nieces and nephews with the request that they return the stones to their original location. That way I get to encourage them to see the world, and I get be a small part of their travels after I’m gone.
Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago
I collect so many things it's ridiculous. I have been a vintage reseller for many years and now also run estate sales. I collect: Vera Neumann scarves and textiles, vintage purses, vintage printed cotton tablecloths and napkins, vintage kitchenwares, art, mid-century era cats in art and figurines, MCM furniture, CathrineHolm enamelware, antique spatter enamelware, 1950s enamelware(can you tell I like enamelware?) vintage brooches and bangles, 1950s-60s bar ware, mid-century ceramic antelopes, swug glass vases, vintage clothing...there's probably more things but really that's enough. lol Our house looks like a mid-century modern time warp.
Rozlyn G Wright 2 years ago
I just found a Vera in my drawer. Was my Grams.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 3 years ago
I've never really been bitten by the collection bug. When I have up to 3 or 4 of an item, I usually feel that's enough and I don't need any more.
The lesbian knitting panda 2 years ago
I collect cuddlies (another word for stuffed animals), mugs, rare money (largely British thing) and pin badges :)
DDmaybeandor 2 years ago (edited)
It’s crazy. I grew up in a hording house and just looking at the first 10 pictures made my feel physically ill. What a surprising guttural reaction. I’m glad collecting things bring some people joy. It makes me want to set a building on fire, but you do you boo.
Elvira Dirge 2 years ago
I wish I had contributed to this one. I have a great monster collection! Our whole house is filled with monster art, figurines, and collectibles.
John Louis 2 years ago
I used to collect comic books (6000 of them) and now I am a magician (tons of it). I believe collectors live their life with passion!
lapis lazuli 2 years ago
i collect rabbit stuffed animals. my collection is at 26 right now but im fifteen so it will just grow haha
Rick Seiden 2 years ago
Decks of playing cards. I have over 400 unique decks in my collection. https://rickscards.blogspot.com/
Tuncer Coşar 3 years ago
Collecting books. Well, isn't it a common thing for everyone who has a bookshelf?
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen (Post author) 3 years ago
I already made a post, but something else I collect is those rainbow loom bracelets. I make and collect them, and I do the same with the bracelets you make with string.
Maria Mendez 2 years ago
I have an extensive collection of textiles (i'm a quilter; i collect fabric, which i cut into small pieces, then sew into quilts)
Trevor Nicholson 2 years ago
I collect books, which I intend to eventually read. It doesn't sound like much but during the pandemic especially, I go in to trying to find works of fiction (translated to English) from as many countries as possible. I'm up to 154 and I'm particularly fond of the ones that were very challenging to find or actually acquire like North Korea, Eritrea, Laos, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, and Cape Verde. And finding ones written in their national languages. A lot of writers from former Soviet countries write in Russian or German because of a broader audience, so finding works originally in Ukrainian or Georgian was a feat. And India, English is most available, so finding ones originally written in Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Bengali, that was an accomplishment.
#iwriteitall 2 years ago
I collect pencils from all over the world they have to say. The destination on the pencil there's also a few pens because pencils are becoming alot harder to get hold of I started when I was 7 people also buy me them from around the world to.
Tigerpacingthecage 2 years ago
I collect those mumin-mugs (pretty common in my country) and get childishly excited when a new one come out (twice a year, the season ones). And fridge magnets from every new place I visit. I love to look at them and keep the memories alive from each trip.
Geeki Nikki 2 years ago
The only thing I collect are playbills and ticket stubs from all the musicals I've seen. I've seen 25+ shows live. Ofc I've seen a lot more thanks to the magic of cinema. But id love to add more to my collection!
Derek Clark 2 years ago
I have the entire collection of Elfquest comics, the Dutch ones and the American ones, as well as the other Elfquest items. I don't have everything yet of the collection but I'm getting there
Lightning_Thief 2 years ago
I collect books! I’ve been working on completing my Rick Riordan mythology collection!
AnotherBoredPanda 2 years ago
I collect Funko's, cd's, playmobils, and stuffed animals (specially cats!)
A Jones 2 years ago
I collect a few things. Kind of gather them from my adventures. Art, Shot glasses from places I visited, tiny figurines, horror movies, and plushes (including beanie babies). All these things I like and my place is oddly organize and clean. lol thank you for the existence of shelves.
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
I'm surprised not to see Euro coins here, people used to collect those, maybe it's not a thing anymore? Or wasn't allowed to be posted for some reason?
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
I have over 600 silver charms (of which 43 are mechanical), about 200 pieces of Vollrath enamelware (I use some to cook with but many are unused), metal Band-Aid boxes (including examples of the first three they ever used and two intact WW2 Band-Aid brand first aid kits), and every Harry Potter Lego set from the first 3 movies unopened.
Margrete Sonnenberg 2 years ago
My mom collects red rose tea teapot collectables. Just missing 14.
Sue Lynn Chan 2 years ago
I mostly collected key chains from different countries but now I have to wait till I can finally travel
Lily bloom 2 years ago
I have a collection of collections. The Little Prince (40+), Tupperware (600+), Lily Bloom bags (50+), Lego, duplo, books (~1500), games (board, card, etc ~500), lularoe leggings (~100), yard decorations (metal, plaster, wood, etc 50+)
Sarjana Lastname 3 years ago (edited)
I collect balls, small ones so it fits to hand. Collection has industrial made balls like roll-on ball and ball from mice to hand made glass and color stone. I never ever buy those, couple from hundreds. It is almost religious experience when you found da ball from ground, it like comes to me. You can find ball from anywhere, abandoned places, center of city, recent balls are from houses what I have rented, glass and plastic, wooden and iron. Once I steal ball because I got lost from forest to cabin's yard, and there it was 9 cm diameter hollow black plastic ball waiting for me, screaming take me! That was also so that ball dint have any function, it was light, can fly around the yard, it didint have any context what i would have noticed in that please. this was good example from religious experience, i was so abashed what i saw, i got lost and then what i found missing black ball from my collection. Value is 50 cents so I did'nt think much i just took it :) and walk same way back.
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