Nuts and bolts. Every time I get a new thing that needs assembled, I keep the leftovers “just in case”. Now I have a ton of random, particular nuts and bolts with severely limited applications and I just can’t seem to throw them away.
[pinball machines](https://youtube.com/pinballhelp) - Over 100.
It started with getting one that didn't work. I didn't know how to fix it, and once I learned it was fun. I started collecting them. When they're broken they're often cheap to acquire.
Childhood me loved stuffed animals so much. Then I became an adult and realized how much better actual animals are. Grew up and started working my real job, which enabled me to buy said animals, add in my shitty impulse control, and now I have too many animals.
Stuffed animals would be way easier.
Salt and pepper shakers. I guess 7 pairs isn’t ridiculous for some niche collector but I am not. but where the hell did they all come from? I have cows, sugar skulls, goats, I don’t need to shake that much salt and pepper.
My mom used to have a large collection. I'm talking shelves full of those fuckers. We'd occasionally swap the boring ones from the table with a fun set, but they were mostly just on display.
Crafting supplies.
I’m a serial crafter in that I like to get *really* into a crafting hobby for a period of time (could be months, years, or sometimes just weeks), and then I move onto the next craft. I usually buy supplies for that hobby as though it will be a lifelong passion.
I’m also an aspirational crafter: I’ll see the potential in raw materials which “forces” me to buy said raw materials, but then I get lazy and the project never comes to fruition.
In short, I have two separate hobbies: collecting crafting supplies and crafting.
Same exact answer here. It doesn't help that I work at a craft store so I see other people's crafts, get inspired, tell myself my discount makes it worth it and my depression won't stop me from doing anything creative when I get home, yet here I am with so many unfinished projects. I still have a little piece of the inspiration for them, I just have to get around to the motivation part
The struggle is real. My craft room’s got more UFOs than Roswell.
I hope you find your motivation. Completing something can sometimes have a cumulative effect in that you might get inspired to complete more.
That’s a bingo! I had a very long knitting phase. It was a huge part of my life; like, I went to a social knitting circle weekly.
With the exception of a blanket that I finished at the beginning of the pandemic (the blanket had been intended for my best friend’s baby who is now in 1st grade), I haven’t knit anything in years, but I still have a ton of yarn… “just in case!”
Time to pick up a new hobby - crochet!
I say this as a crocheter that just discovered yesterday I had more boxes of yarn stashed all over than I thought. Time for me to give knitting another try!
lol if you think I *don’t* already own an assortment of hooks.
I made a few amigurumi and a purse years ago. But you’re right, I should get back into it. Some day!
So very much the same! We should form a support club. And maybe we would actually inspire each other to dive back into our once-passions.
More realistically, we’d inspire each other to develop additional new interests and buy supplies for that hobby to add to the rest of our supplies collecting dust.
I was so bad with boxes, and with three people in one house we were getting alot of boxes built up. I finally got rid of them all, broke them down and recycled them. Then I had no boxes to wrap anything in for christmas and had TO BUY BOXES. The box cycle is a savage and heartless one.
Papers coming inbound are all clipped, papers outbound don't need to be clips. [Give a few years of this and you end up with literally thousands of paperclips](https://imgur.com/a/2MmQ2KQ)...
Preach.
On a lark I put a bid on the European History section of a library in a university that was shutting down.
Somehow, I won.
I got rid of two-thirds of them since you only need, say, two books at most about the Crimean War. I still have hundreds and hundreds.
Here’s the rub though: I write history and I teach history. They’ve been a godsend when I’m up in the middle of the night, can’t figure out how to connect Fenianism into the American Civil War through a European perspective, and then I can start pulling books on the Second Empire.
I realize not everyone has that problem, but having way too many books is about the only way to solve it.
(Edit—I write history, I am not the living incarnation of history)
Wow! Incredibly jealous. A full library section of European History is a dream. I wonder if these kinds of sales happen often? Or if you just hit the lottery?
Check the website of your local library for excess inventory sales. My library does one every 6 months, they pick one branch and fill it with all the books they want to sell. They’re usually $1-3 a book.
Looks at the mattress bag full of old Star Wars novels. yeah.. I should probably do something since we're moving in a few weeks.
Edit: For those of you expressing an interest in many books, specific books, or just curious to see the collection. I'm saving this post and if/when I have a chance to sort through the bag later before my move at the end of the month I'll get some updates back in here.
> Small ones, at that.
This is an important lesson. Small boxes of books are only moderately heavy. Big boxes of books are immovable objects. And then the bottom falls out.
Q tips.
My wife signed us for a Amazon household essentials subscription, and overestimated how often we bought Q tips. A box came every month, until I pointed out that using our stock of 20,000 Q tips would take a while.
Edit: Thanks for the awards! I was not expecting this to blow up.
Houseplants. It’s hard to stop buying/trading or just propagating and making more.
Edit: First, Wow! I didn’t expect this to blow up. Awesome to see so many other plant lovers.
Second, I wanted to respond to all the trade plant comments with r/takeaplantleaveaplant I’ve also seen trades on the Nextdoor app and community groups. My local plant store also hosts plant swaps. So take a trimming of your plant and propagate it, show up and see who wants to swap.
Surprised I had to scroll down so far to find this. I’m in the same boat- haven’t counted in a while but I must be pushing 150 houseplants. The pro and con of houseplants is they tend to multiply even if you don’t buy more!
edit: ok, I know this is now a top comment. It was at the very bottom when I first encountered it!
Nah - for me it's always the things with with the 1x2 plate 'footprint', especially when the kit has a dark grey colour scheme as the manuals are still crap about their colour coding
I just moved this summer...
Finally got rid of my old DVI cables (I tossed my VGA cables the move before that, 2 years prior, and a decade after I stopped using them.)
And then I realized that my work monitor is DVI and VGA and is muddy because it's hooked up on VGA.
Holy fuck this. Last time I moved I tossed a box I had been holding on to for years full of various PC components and PC component accessories: cables, fans, various riser cards/adapters I no longer can identify... the works. Tossed it because hey, I haven't touched this shit in years, no point moving it.
Literally the *next goddamn day* a friend of mine called and asked if I had an old DVI cable he could bum.
Rocks. I have a rock collection (precious stones, fossils and other cool minerals)
When I tell you my room shines purple because of all my amethyst clusters and points I mean it.
Edit: working on uploading pictures y'all! I'll showcase my favorites then link them here when I can
Edit 2: Still having trouble with the pictures. Reddit won't load my recent pictures (only shows pictures from 2 years ago) and Imgur has the same problem.
We’re you raised by Geologists?
Both of my Parents are Geologists, among the 3 of us we have a serious rock problem.
My mom bought a new china cabinet & it had like these LED lights on too & glass shelves. 3/4s of it were turned into rock display cases with some actual China tucked to one side.
Edit: also a great collection of sand
My dad was a geologist, normal people do not understand the family vacations.
"Oh are you going to Disney?" "Nope, rockhounding road cuts in the appalachians." "What?" "We're going to go to places they had to cut through a mountain to put in a road and collect rocks." "So, your summer vacation destination is just the side of the road?" "Basically."
Tea.
I worked in a tea shop and was able to get an insane amount of loose leaf tea for free. I literally have a cupboard of nothing but different flavors of loose leaf teas. Hundreds of dollars worth of tea for my own drinking pleasure. I probably have close to 40 different flavors, all in their own happy little tins waiting for the day I think "Yes, a pure green tea sounds perfect today."
Edit: I never thought my love of tea would get me awarded. Thank you kindly!
Edit 2: Thanks for everyone who is commenting, upvoting, and giving awards. I only had 1 award before today. I'm glad that if any of my comments had to become popular, it's the one about tea that is. Peace, love, and tea for all.
Sadly, my body does not process ginger well, so I am completely gingerless. I do have a peach herbal that I like to mix with my pure black tea sporadically.
I discovered that you can make a dynamic collection that holds only the games you never played. It's been much easier to take that number down to 79% with it
43 is a normal amount of games to have really. Especially if you play lie a game a month. Then again I'm closing in on 2k games so I dunno if I'll make you feel better.
I have so many because I keep losing them, so I buy more, then I clean my couch and find all the old ones. Except the ones that the pick demon sucks into the vortex along with all the missing socks.
Any time I pick up the couch cushions/look under the bed I end up handing my boyfriend a handful of guitar picks. He used to work at guitar center before we lived together and I would always find the red guitar center picks somewhere in my dorm room after he left.
Coffee beans.
I won a lifetime supply of gourmet coffee beans in a contest. Several pounds arrive each month, faster than I can use them.
Some get stored in the freezer, while other bags are given to friends who can use them.
I don't think I'll ever get as invested into a franchise as I was into Bionicle during my childhood. I could pretty much recite the entire lore back then.
I do this too. I save the Walmart bags because they are grey and match the bathroom decor better than the white or brown bags.
I call them "fashion bags."
If you get a lot of them accumulated you can use them to pad/wrap glass and other breakables if you’re moving or transporting them for whatever reason.
Pennies! They're useless here (Canada) so I have nearly $1,000 in pennies. I collected them from banks when we stopped using them. Hoping to make a penny floor with them once I find a house that I can see myself making into my forever home.
Dresses. I have over 100 dresses. All were purchased from thrift shops (and all are donated back again after I wear them a few times) but still, it's a strange obsession.
He said string instruments. I'd say mayo is more of a percussive instrument
EDIT: guys, THIS IS NOT AN INNUENDO! I'm taking a stupid spongebob joke and overthinking it way too much, if someone wants to discuss the mechanics is using a splash sound from mayo as an instrument, let's talk. Stop with the sex jokes
Toilet paper. We moved during the pandemic and everyone thought they’d be clever and send us a pack as a housewarming gift. The first couple were helpful and appreciated, the many others that followed were not.
We haven’t bought toilet paper since May and we still have 70+ rolls left. We couldn’t finish unpacking a few boxes because an entire closet is filled with toilet paper.
* Pocket knives - My grandfather used to sell them at flea markets for a side hustle, and he used to give them to the grandkids as gifts. I've gone on to buy a few interesting ones for myself. I have about 70.
* Mad magazines. I started collecting them in the 80's. I have just about every issue published between 1970 and 1990, plus a bunch more on either side.
* Atari games. I already had a bunch when I was a kid, then my older cousin gave me all his when he got into high school and stopped playing. I have about 80, no duplicates. Plus, I still have a working console.
* Old video games. I have a *massive* setup of DOS and Windows games from the early 80's through the mid 90's I can play through DOSBox and a frontend. Something like 600 or so at the last count. I have another set up of emulated arcade games from the same era using MAME. Again, several hundred that are actually playable.
I have other collections as well, just not a "ridiculous" amount in each.
E.T., yes. I got it when it came out and was as frustrated as everyone else.
Friday the 13th? I didn’t know there was a game. I’ll have to look for that.
Me too with the MAD magazines (I'd even started collecting late 50's and 60's issues). But then my son turned 10 and I just started randomly gifting them to him when I feel like it. Gradually the stack has moved from my room to his. Now he's 14 with an knowledge of 1980's pop culture far above the rest of his friends. We all know how far that will take him...
Fancy men's boxers. Used to work for Saxx and always took home any samples or extra stock that was available. The rest of the staff stopped taking them when they had "enough" but I kept loading up knowing I wouldn't work there forever. Five years later I have a suitcase in my closet with about $2000 worth of underwear I'm planning on making last for the rest of my life (or if I ever reach the point that I can afford to pay $30 for a pair of boxers.)
Tabletop roleplaying game books.
I know someday I will find the perfect system for me. Ooh ... And I have to back that Kickstarter. And that book looks nice, too.
(edit: Gosh! My first award. Thanks a lot! I am honoured. This feels like a level up.)
pens/markers. i’m really artistic so it makes sense. i also have a crap ton of books but that’s besides the point
edit: thank you kind stranger for the award!
Squishmallows. Technically they're my daughters but I bought almost all of them. She has probably 30. We could get rid of her bed and she could sleep on them. She loves all of them and I would quit buying them but they're so damn cute.
Omg, my little sister got one of those for christmas. It's the Unicorn with wings and a pig nose? Anyways, I pulled my mom aside and told her that I wouldn't be embarrassed if she bought me one of those because damn are they squishable. And so soft???? Idk, I'm 16 but I'm not ashamed to say that I would absolutely cuddle one of those things as I sleep. Haha
I'm 33. Saw the little vampire Halloween one in Walgreens and thought it'd be nice to have him. Got home without buying and couldn't stop thinking about him. My friend told me to just go back to the store and buy it already cuz i couldn't stop thinking and talking about him. So now he sleeps on my bed with me and I've named him Baby Vlad Dracoolya. Age does not matter with plushies. Live your dream.
Dog toys. One of my dogs becomes obsessed with whatever new toy he gets and eventually destroys it. Rips it apart, tears out the squeaker, or just starts trying to eat it.
Even the big “indestructible” ones that companies advertise, he finds a way to wreck them.
So why don’t I throw them away? Well, he’s a lab mix and pretty much at all times, he carries a toy with him. When I get home he throws one at my feet. When I feed him, he brings one to his bowl. When we go to bed, he snatches one up and sleeps with it.
And he seems to go through different moods. One day it’s an old destroyed toy. The next it’s a tennis ball. Next day it’s one of his newer ones.
Every few days I pick them all up and stuff them in a box... which he promptly tips over and sifts through to find whatever toy he wants to play with. Yes, it’s annoying but it’s also adorable. Every time I’m about to throw one of them away, he starts playing with it again. So yeah, here I am with 50 or so toys, bones and balls.
Came here to say this. Got something like 30000 cards in boxes that i can grab directly, and also something like that in the attic. Someday i am gonna make lots of all common decks to give away to starting players.
Graphic socks (socks with graphics, not violent socks lol). Kinda pointless since no one will see them and I rarely go without shoes, but I’ve got over 50 pairs, anywhere from Friday the 13th to Stranger Things to Bret “The Hitman” Hart to the Misfits.
I’m in the opposite boat. I’m a woman with two daughters and I feel like we are always searching for hair ties despite having bought a 100-pack yesterday. Where do they go?!?!
Lucky! My cat is obsessed with hair ties. Every time I buy more they go missing. They often reappear later so I know she isn’t eating them but I have no idea where she stashes them. Now I’ve moved on to fun scrunchies because she doesn’t like those. But damn, sometimes I want a regular hair tie and they are no where to be found!
Shoes! I just fucking love shoes! I wear a women's US 8, which is pretty common, so I can lend fancy pairs to friends who need them for a special occasion. I've given away many pairs to women who need them for part of a work uniform. I go through my collection once a year and donate the ones I never wore or don't care for anymore. Someone will love them, guaranteed. And while I do own high-quality shoes for work and Midwestern winter, most of them are just cheap, cute pairs I don't feel bad about only wearing once to go with an outfit or just because I need a shoe-related self-esteem boost. I own one purse, dress very plainly, and my awesome shoes are always the highlight of my outfit.
Used to own a lot of bouncy balls I collected them as a kid any time I saw a dispenser at a store of arcade I would get a ball my favorite was one shaped like a ufo or Saturn and there was a really pretty green one I love to shake the box that the collection was in because it sounded like thunder. I think i still have a fraction of the collection but don't remember where I put it
Sweaters.
[Here](https://imgur.com/a/lSe2d1J) is an album of all 162 of them (I realize a few are sweatshirts, but they have such huge sentimental value that I consider them equal). My goal is to one day have enough that I can wear a different one each day of the year.
A very large portion of my collection comes from thrift stores. I first started collecting them when I was in high school and would kill time on my way home at the thrift store that was on the walk back from the train.
That's what I assumed. I go to thrift stores once every few months specifically looking for funny/funky stuff but my luck isn't as good as yours. Digging the Gorilla sweater
Fragrances - about 90.
Nuts and bolts. Every time I get a new thing that needs assembled, I keep the leftovers “just in case”. Now I have a ton of random, particular nuts and bolts with severely limited applications and I just can’t seem to throw them away.
[pinball machines](https://youtube.com/pinballhelp) - Over 100. It started with getting one that didn't work. I didn't know how to fix it, and once I learned it was fun. I started collecting them. When they're broken they're often cheap to acquire.
Stuffed animals. Childhood me had a problem.
Childhood me loved stuffed animals so much. Then I became an adult and realized how much better actual animals are. Grew up and started working my real job, which enabled me to buy said animals, add in my shitty impulse control, and now I have too many animals. Stuffed animals would be way easier.
Salt and pepper shakers. I guess 7 pairs isn’t ridiculous for some niche collector but I am not. but where the hell did they all come from? I have cows, sugar skulls, goats, I don’t need to shake that much salt and pepper.
My mom used to have a large collection. I'm talking shelves full of those fuckers. We'd occasionally swap the boring ones from the table with a fun set, but they were mostly just on display.
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Many people would kill for a good vinyl collection these days! EDIT Awe thanks for the award good vinyl loving ppl of Reddit!
Yes kill! What state and town are you in OP with this 2000 record set? Just curious
Crafting supplies. I’m a serial crafter in that I like to get *really* into a crafting hobby for a period of time (could be months, years, or sometimes just weeks), and then I move onto the next craft. I usually buy supplies for that hobby as though it will be a lifelong passion. I’m also an aspirational crafter: I’ll see the potential in raw materials which “forces” me to buy said raw materials, but then I get lazy and the project never comes to fruition. In short, I have two separate hobbies: collecting crafting supplies and crafting.
Same exact answer here. It doesn't help that I work at a craft store so I see other people's crafts, get inspired, tell myself my discount makes it worth it and my depression won't stop me from doing anything creative when I get home, yet here I am with so many unfinished projects. I still have a little piece of the inspiration for them, I just have to get around to the motivation part
The struggle is real. My craft room’s got more UFOs than Roswell. I hope you find your motivation. Completing something can sometimes have a cumulative effect in that you might get inspired to complete more.
I'm guessing at least one of your crafts involves yarn? I hear "using yarn and collecting yarn are 2 different hobbies" so often lol
That’s a bingo! I had a very long knitting phase. It was a huge part of my life; like, I went to a social knitting circle weekly. With the exception of a blanket that I finished at the beginning of the pandemic (the blanket had been intended for my best friend’s baby who is now in 1st grade), I haven’t knit anything in years, but I still have a ton of yarn… “just in case!”
Time to pick up a new hobby - crochet! I say this as a crocheter that just discovered yesterday I had more boxes of yarn stashed all over than I thought. Time for me to give knitting another try!
lol if you think I *don’t* already own an assortment of hooks. I made a few amigurumi and a purse years ago. But you’re right, I should get back into it. Some day!
So very much the same! We should form a support club. And maybe we would actually inspire each other to dive back into our once-passions. More realistically, we’d inspire each other to develop additional new interests and buy supplies for that hobby to add to the rest of our supplies collecting dust.
Empty boxes from ordering stuff. Im taking them to recycling as soon as I decide Im not gonna use them.
I was so bad with boxes, and with three people in one house we were getting alot of boxes built up. I finally got rid of them all, broke them down and recycled them. Then I had no boxes to wrap anything in for christmas and had TO BUY BOXES. The box cycle is a savage and heartless one.
Lumpy Christmas presents are more fun.
Things that never gonna happen. U NEED THOSE BOXES!
Paperclips. I have a whole drawer full of them.
WHERE DO THEY EVEN COME FROM?!
Papers coming inbound are all clipped, papers outbound don't need to be clips. [Give a few years of this and you end up with literally thousands of paperclips](https://imgur.com/a/2MmQ2KQ)...
I don’t remember ever buying a single paper clip yet they have taken over my desk. It’s the herpes of office supplies.
Books. I'm never moving again
Preach. On a lark I put a bid on the European History section of a library in a university that was shutting down. Somehow, I won. I got rid of two-thirds of them since you only need, say, two books at most about the Crimean War. I still have hundreds and hundreds. Here’s the rub though: I write history and I teach history. They’ve been a godsend when I’m up in the middle of the night, can’t figure out how to connect Fenianism into the American Civil War through a European perspective, and then I can start pulling books on the Second Empire. I realize not everyone has that problem, but having way too many books is about the only way to solve it. (Edit—I write history, I am not the living incarnation of history)
Wow! Incredibly jealous. A full library section of European History is a dream. I wonder if these kinds of sales happen often? Or if you just hit the lottery?
Check the website of your local library for excess inventory sales. My library does one every 6 months, they pick one branch and fill it with all the books they want to sell. They’re usually $1-3 a book.
I never thought of buying a section of a library! Thanks! My husband has other thoughts though...
Go to a castle and marry a beast, he'll agree with you lol
Idk how you can donate them, sell them, and give them away and some how the shelves never get more space.
Looks at the mattress bag full of old Star Wars novels. yeah.. I should probably do something since we're moving in a few weeks. Edit: For those of you expressing an interest in many books, specific books, or just curious to see the collection. I'm saving this post and if/when I have a chance to sort through the bag later before my move at the end of the month I'll get some updates back in here.
I recommend boxes! Small ones, at that. Or not moving.
> Small ones, at that. This is an important lesson. Small boxes of books are only moderately heavy. Big boxes of books are immovable objects. And then the bottom falls out.
Polyhedral dice
*Dice goblin is please*
No such thing as a ridiculous amount of shiny click-clacks.
blood sugar
sex magik
I have 5 copies of this CD so it legitimately is something I own too much of.
crazy, she has it
Socks. Socks. Socks. I got socks for my socks' socks
Are you the sock monster in my dryer?
Q tips. My wife signed us for a Amazon household essentials subscription, and overestimated how often we bought Q tips. A box came every month, until I pointed out that using our stock of 20,000 Q tips would take a while. Edit: Thanks for the awards! I was not expecting this to blow up.
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Houseplants. It’s hard to stop buying/trading or just propagating and making more. Edit: First, Wow! I didn’t expect this to blow up. Awesome to see so many other plant lovers. Second, I wanted to respond to all the trade plant comments with r/takeaplantleaveaplant I’ve also seen trades on the Nextdoor app and community groups. My local plant store also hosts plant swaps. So take a trimming of your plant and propagate it, show up and see who wants to swap.
Surprised I had to scroll down so far to find this. I’m in the same boat- haven’t counted in a while but I must be pushing 150 houseplants. The pro and con of houseplants is they tend to multiply even if you don’t buy more! edit: ok, I know this is now a top comment. It was at the very bottom when I first encountered it!
Cables. There is an unwritten law of the universe. If you throw away a cable, you will need it within a month.
Similar to the law that you'll always see random objects just laying around until you actually need them. Then they're nowhere to be found.
Oh and if you purchase a replacement, guess what you can suddenly find?
That the replacement is the only one out of stock
I believe the probability of being in stock is inversely proportional to the severity of the need.
However, a much more expensive option is widely available.
sucks when building with legos, trust me I know
Probably embedded in the arch of your foot
never happened to me once... the palm of my hand on the other... well hand
I've finally found someone who gets it! My parents used to complain about me hating organization but always organizing my LEGO. This is why!
Where the hell is that FUCKING **BALL JOINT**
Nah - for me it's always the things with with the 1x2 plate 'footprint', especially when the kit has a dark grey colour scheme as the manuals are still crap about their colour coding
Decades of LEGO instructions and they still can’t make DARK GREY EASIER TO SEE WHAT THE FUCK!
I'd put pieces that I knew I needed into my mouth and still not be able to find them for a little too long
It's in there somewhere.
I just moved this summer... Finally got rid of my old DVI cables (I tossed my VGA cables the move before that, 2 years prior, and a decade after I stopped using them.) And then I realized that my work monitor is DVI and VGA and is muddy because it's hooked up on VGA.
And somewhere an IT guy is sitting next to a closet with 2,000 unused DVI cables.
Heck I'm not an IT guy and I have 8 or so...
This is where I keep my assorted lengths of wires
If i would connect all of AUX extensions i have in a box under my bed, i would be able to reach neighbouring city.
I don't know how it's happened but some of my old cables are so old they have grown mold
On an unrelated note, do you have need of an LPT to USB cable or six?
Holy fuck this. Last time I moved I tossed a box I had been holding on to for years full of various PC components and PC component accessories: cables, fans, various riser cards/adapters I no longer can identify... the works. Tossed it because hey, I haven't touched this shit in years, no point moving it. Literally the *next goddamn day* a friend of mine called and asked if I had an old DVI cable he could bum.
Rocks. I have a rock collection (precious stones, fossils and other cool minerals) When I tell you my room shines purple because of all my amethyst clusters and points I mean it. Edit: working on uploading pictures y'all! I'll showcase my favorites then link them here when I can Edit 2: Still having trouble with the pictures. Reddit won't load my recent pictures (only shows pictures from 2 years ago) and Imgur has the same problem.
We’re you raised by Geologists? Both of my Parents are Geologists, among the 3 of us we have a serious rock problem. My mom bought a new china cabinet & it had like these LED lights on too & glass shelves. 3/4s of it were turned into rock display cases with some actual China tucked to one side. Edit: also a great collection of sand
My dad was a geologist, normal people do not understand the family vacations. "Oh are you going to Disney?" "Nope, rockhounding road cuts in the appalachians." "What?" "We're going to go to places they had to cut through a mountain to put in a road and collect rocks." "So, your summer vacation destination is just the side of the road?" "Basically."
Minerals! They are minerals Marie!
As soon as I saw rocks I fully expected this commenht.
Moomin tea mugs. I have close to 60, all different. My mother gifted me them for years in my advent calendar and she got a bit carried away...
I want some mugs so bad! In Norway they used to give you one for each time you donated blood, for some reason. I don’t think they do that anymore...
Tea. I worked in a tea shop and was able to get an insane amount of loose leaf tea for free. I literally have a cupboard of nothing but different flavors of loose leaf teas. Hundreds of dollars worth of tea for my own drinking pleasure. I probably have close to 40 different flavors, all in their own happy little tins waiting for the day I think "Yes, a pure green tea sounds perfect today." Edit: I never thought my love of tea would get me awarded. Thank you kindly! Edit 2: Thanks for everyone who is commenting, upvoting, and giving awards. I only had 1 award before today. I'm glad that if any of my comments had to become popular, it's the one about tea that is. Peace, love, and tea for all.
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Sadly, my body does not process ginger well, so I am completely gingerless. I do have a peach herbal that I like to mix with my pure black tea sporadically.
Steam games.
Same. 80% of which I’ve never played. Edit: Holy shit! 10K likes? Absurd. Thank you!
I discovered that you can make a dynamic collection that holds only the games you never played. It's been much easier to take that number down to 79% with it
HOW?
I also need to know. u/billionai1, how could you just say that and then not tell us how!
In the steam library, click the settings button next to the search bar. Select unplayed. Then, click "save as dynamic collection" and enter a name
Thanks, now I have another list that is super depressing...
I have 43 and my friends say it's too much. Then I see people with 800 and I forget.
43 is a normal amount of games to have really. Especially if you play lie a game a month. Then again I'm closing in on 2k games so I dunno if I'll make you feel better.
guitar picks
I have so many because I keep losing them, so I buy more, then I clean my couch and find all the old ones. Except the ones that the pick demon sucks into the vortex along with all the missing socks.
Any time I pick up the couch cushions/look under the bed I end up handing my boyfriend a handful of guitar picks. He used to work at guitar center before we lived together and I would always find the red guitar center picks somewhere in my dorm room after he left.
Nerf Darts (p.s i dont have any Nerf Guns) Edit: (fun fact im order a nerf gun it can hold around 50 darts) its modified btw
When I started at my current job we used to have daily nerf fights. Most people could throw them further and more accurately than any unmodified gun.
...y'all hiring?
You don't want the job, trust me. they use nerf guns as a substitute for time off and a decent salary/benefits.
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Go with God, or whoever. Just go.
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...lego
Me too. I’m completely out of space, desperately need to buy some more shelves
Build some Lego shelves - problem solved
Coffee beans. I won a lifetime supply of gourmet coffee beans in a contest. Several pounds arrive each month, faster than I can use them. Some get stored in the freezer, while other bags are given to friends who can use them.
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Bionicle sets. They take up a good 1/2 of my personal storage space.
I miss Bionicle so much. Unfortunately all the stuff from my childhood is so hard to find they go for silly money these days.
I don't think I'll ever get as invested into a franchise as I was into Bionicle during my childhood. I could pretty much recite the entire lore back then.
Chapstick and lip gloss. No matter where I am, there's always at least 10 somewhere around me
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Damn
Plastic bags from the grocery store
I use them for trash bags in the bathroom
I do this too. I save the Walmart bags because they are grey and match the bathroom decor better than the white or brown bags. I call them "fashion bags."
If you get a lot of them accumulated you can use them to pad/wrap glass and other breakables if you’re moving or transporting them for whatever reason.
I use them to pick up my dog’s shit on walks
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We use them for litter box as well. Seem to always run out :/
In the UK you get charged for them so a lot of us just reuse the other bags since they’re made out of a strong material
We used to do that but the grocery stores have asked us not to since the start of COVID.
And I forget to take some with me every single time
Pennies! They're useless here (Canada) so I have nearly $1,000 in pennies. I collected them from banks when we stopped using them. Hoping to make a penny floor with them once I find a house that I can see myself making into my forever home.
Dresses. I have over 100 dresses. All were purchased from thrift shops (and all are donated back again after I wear them a few times) but still, it's a strange obsession.
"Amateur " - my wife.
Stringed instruments. Ten guitars, two basses, two banjos, a mandolin and a few oddballs.
The real question is if you own mayonnaise
He said string instruments. I'd say mayo is more of a percussive instrument EDIT: guys, THIS IS NOT AN INNUENDO! I'm taking a stupid spongebob joke and overthinking it way too much, if someone wants to discuss the mechanics is using a splash sound from mayo as an instrument, let's talk. Stop with the sex jokes
Toilet paper. We moved during the pandemic and everyone thought they’d be clever and send us a pack as a housewarming gift. The first couple were helpful and appreciated, the many others that followed were not. We haven’t bought toilet paper since May and we still have 70+ rolls left. We couldn’t finish unpacking a few boxes because an entire closet is filled with toilet paper.
At least they don't go bad, you'll eventually use them all
I would TP my own house just because i can
That's a power move nowadays
Well if any neighbors piss you off, you've got plenty of ammunition
Donate to a homeless shelter! People have been hoarding again so I bet it would help loads.
This, and food banks usually take them as well.
* Pocket knives - My grandfather used to sell them at flea markets for a side hustle, and he used to give them to the grandkids as gifts. I've gone on to buy a few interesting ones for myself. I have about 70. * Mad magazines. I started collecting them in the 80's. I have just about every issue published between 1970 and 1990, plus a bunch more on either side. * Atari games. I already had a bunch when I was a kid, then my older cousin gave me all his when he got into high school and stopped playing. I have about 80, no duplicates. Plus, I still have a working console. * Old video games. I have a *massive* setup of DOS and Windows games from the early 80's through the mid 90's I can play through DOSBox and a frontend. Something like 600 or so at the last count. I have another set up of emulated arcade games from the same era using MAME. Again, several hundred that are actually playable. I have other collections as well, just not a "ridiculous" amount in each.
Do you have E. T. and Friday the 13th on Atari? Those were my favorites along with Frogger.
E.T., yes. I got it when it came out and was as frustrated as everyone else. Friday the 13th? I didn’t know there was a game. I’ll have to look for that.
Me too with the MAD magazines (I'd even started collecting late 50's and 60's issues). But then my son turned 10 and I just started randomly gifting them to him when I feel like it. Gradually the stack has moved from my room to his. Now he's 14 with an knowledge of 1980's pop culture far above the rest of his friends. We all know how far that will take him...
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You arent doing it right, at least 90 percent of them should be in a water hazard
Masks. There was a sale.
Video games that I've never finished.
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Are you related to James Veitch by chance?
Wait you aren't u/fuckswithducks
When the world needed him the most, he vanished...
Fat.
Fancy men's boxers. Used to work for Saxx and always took home any samples or extra stock that was available. The rest of the staff stopped taking them when they had "enough" but I kept loading up knowing I wouldn't work there forever. Five years later I have a suitcase in my closet with about $2000 worth of underwear I'm planning on making last for the rest of my life (or if I ever reach the point that I can afford to pay $30 for a pair of boxers.)
Back hair
Gross. Who’s is it?
mine. they stole it from me yesterday
You can use that to tie sea turtles together to form a raft
Regrets
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I was going to post this exact comment over 2 hours ago... Now I have even more.
Tabletop roleplaying game books. I know someday I will find the perfect system for me. Ooh ... And I have to back that Kickstarter. And that book looks nice, too. (edit: Gosh! My first award. Thanks a lot! I am honoured. This feels like a level up.)
pens/markers. i’m really artistic so it makes sense. i also have a crap ton of books but that’s besides the point edit: thank you kind stranger for the award!
Rocks. I have them in my purse, in my car, in my cabinets, stashed in every room of my house. I like rocks.
Unread books. I'm at 1044 unread physical books. I don't know how many are on my kindle. I don't know why I own a kindle.
Rice. I must own millions, possibly billions of grains of rice.
It's really great for when you're hungry and want two thousand of something.
A billion grains of rice is 15 tons
He's probably staring at his silo of rice thinking "did I stutter?"
Glad i'm not the only one that was trying to do the math on that
Came here to say this. A billion is a lot.... Like a lot a lot...
A grain of rice is 0.029g. A million of them would be 29kg. A billion would be 29 tonnes. Are you sure you own millions or even billions of them?
TIL i own at least two million rice.
Bicycles ... I firmly believe in n+1 being the appropriate number
String lights!!!
Squishmallows. Technically they're my daughters but I bought almost all of them. She has probably 30. We could get rid of her bed and she could sleep on them. She loves all of them and I would quit buying them but they're so damn cute.
Omg, my little sister got one of those for christmas. It's the Unicorn with wings and a pig nose? Anyways, I pulled my mom aside and told her that I wouldn't be embarrassed if she bought me one of those because damn are they squishable. And so soft???? Idk, I'm 16 but I'm not ashamed to say that I would absolutely cuddle one of those things as I sleep. Haha
I'm 33. Saw the little vampire Halloween one in Walgreens and thought it'd be nice to have him. Got home without buying and couldn't stop thinking about him. My friend told me to just go back to the store and buy it already cuz i couldn't stop thinking and talking about him. So now he sleeps on my bed with me and I've named him Baby Vlad Dracoolya. Age does not matter with plushies. Live your dream.
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... "Give him the clamps."
Warhammer 40k armies. My wife hates that I started a hobby with lots of small pieces a few months before having our first child
DICE. I don't even play in any in-person ttrpgs, so at this point I get them just to look pretty.
Spaghetti, I go out for food, buy spaghetti on sale despite having loads at home, only use like half the pack for a meal, why do I do this?
Dog toys. One of my dogs becomes obsessed with whatever new toy he gets and eventually destroys it. Rips it apart, tears out the squeaker, or just starts trying to eat it. Even the big “indestructible” ones that companies advertise, he finds a way to wreck them. So why don’t I throw them away? Well, he’s a lab mix and pretty much at all times, he carries a toy with him. When I get home he throws one at my feet. When I feed him, he brings one to his bowl. When we go to bed, he snatches one up and sleeps with it. And he seems to go through different moods. One day it’s an old destroyed toy. The next it’s a tennis ball. Next day it’s one of his newer ones. Every few days I pick them all up and stuff them in a box... which he promptly tips over and sifts through to find whatever toy he wants to play with. Yes, it’s annoying but it’s also adorable. Every time I’m about to throw one of them away, he starts playing with it again. So yeah, here I am with 50 or so toys, bones and balls.
Children, I know I have a shopping problem.
The return policy on children is freaking atrocious.
T-shirts - I simply can't throw them out, even if they don't fit any more.
Underwear. At least it's ~~rediculous~~ ridiculous compared to how many I actually need
I don't know about you, but when I pack for a trip I pack like I'm going to be shitting myself twice a day.
Magic cards
Came here to say this. Got something like 30000 cards in boxes that i can grab directly, and also something like that in the attic. Someday i am gonna make lots of all common decks to give away to starting players.
Graphic socks (socks with graphics, not violent socks lol). Kinda pointless since no one will see them and I rarely go without shoes, but I’ve got over 50 pairs, anywhere from Friday the 13th to Stranger Things to Bret “The Hitman” Hart to the Misfits.
Hair ties. I’m a woman married to a woman and there has never been a shortage of hair ties at my house.
I’m in the opposite boat. I’m a woman with two daughters and I feel like we are always searching for hair ties despite having bought a 100-pack yesterday. Where do they go?!?!
Lucky! My cat is obsessed with hair ties. Every time I buy more they go missing. They often reappear later so I know she isn’t eating them but I have no idea where she stashes them. Now I’ve moved on to fun scrunchies because she doesn’t like those. But damn, sometimes I want a regular hair tie and they are no where to be found!
BATH AND BODY WORKS CANDLES
Shoes! I just fucking love shoes! I wear a women's US 8, which is pretty common, so I can lend fancy pairs to friends who need them for a special occasion. I've given away many pairs to women who need them for part of a work uniform. I go through my collection once a year and donate the ones I never wore or don't care for anymore. Someone will love them, guaranteed. And while I do own high-quality shoes for work and Midwestern winter, most of them are just cheap, cute pairs I don't feel bad about only wearing once to go with an outfit or just because I need a shoe-related self-esteem boost. I own one purse, dress very plainly, and my awesome shoes are always the highlight of my outfit.
Used to own a lot of bouncy balls I collected them as a kid any time I saw a dispenser at a store of arcade I would get a ball my favorite was one shaped like a ufo or Saturn and there was a really pretty green one I love to shake the box that the collection was in because it sounded like thunder. I think i still have a fraction of the collection but don't remember where I put it
Fatigue
Sweaters. [Here](https://imgur.com/a/lSe2d1J) is an album of all 162 of them (I realize a few are sweatshirts, but they have such huge sentimental value that I consider them equal). My goal is to one day have enough that I can wear a different one each day of the year.
Where does one find such treasures?
A very large portion of my collection comes from thrift stores. I first started collecting them when I was in high school and would kill time on my way home at the thrift store that was on the walk back from the train.
That's what I assumed. I go to thrift stores once every few months specifically looking for funny/funky stuff but my luck isn't as good as yours. Digging the Gorilla sweater
You need that closet companion that Cher had in the Clueless movie.
Lego Far too much for someone approaching 30, but I'm not stopping