SuzanneL: Collections

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Here is a list of my various collections.....Some of which I share with my husband. If you collect the same things, or just want to comment, I'd love to hear from you.

We moved in Summer 2013 to a 2 bedroom condo in Hawaii, so we gave away or threw out a lot of things, and put a lot in storage. In the 8 years we've lived here in Arkansas, we haven't done much about displaying the collectibles. Now we're moving to NY, so we don't know yet how much room we'll have. Stay tuned!

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*Bears - mostly stuffed.

*Business cards - All different kinds! A very large collection.

Hotel/Motel card keys - Here are some photos of my small collection #1, #2, #3

*Swizzle sticks - the decorative ones that have the name of the bar/hotel/restaurant on them.

Books - scifi, and all sorts. I got rid of most of my paperbacks when I moved in 2013, but I still collect hardbacks and love to read ANY type of book. I use my Kindle a lot, too.
Records/Tapes/CD's/MP3's - All sorts of music, from musicals to different groups and singers, to comedy to t.v. stuff to choral to karaoke. I have many records (which I keep partly in an old console TV and partly in my entertainment center), tapes (which I mostly keep in little wooden drawers-under the curtain in the pictures here), and cd's (in the cd holder). I got rid of many of these when we moved, but I have most of them on MP3, anyway.
Shot glasses - We collect ones from different states and places we've been to.

*Kirk and Picard figures - from Star Trek.

*Princess Leia and Luke figures from Star Wars. See a picture of me as Leia!
Photos - lots of photo albums and scrapbooks
*Elvis stuff - a small collection, including a velvet painting!
*Beatles stuff - Mostly Paul McCartney dolls, pictures, etc. but a fair amount of John, George, and general Beatles items such as stamps, figures, pictures, etc.
*License plates - Collect ones from different states, provinces, and countries.
*Baseball caps - Not only major and minor league, caps from different places. My husband got rid of a lot of his caps when we moved.
*TV Guides - ones from different areas.
*Newspapers - ones from different areas.

*Pens/Pencils - The kind with the name of the business, etc. on them.
*Buttons - All different kinds (not sewing ones!)
*Political buttons, especially.
Beer bottlecaps - decorative ones.
Foreign beer bottles and cans
*Foreign beer coasters - started this one summer when I went to Germany. (They can be seen in the pictures above)
*Stickers - any kind.
*Small soaps - the kind you find in hotels, airlines, trains, etc.
*Foreign coins and currency
Souvenir glasses - collected from different places we've been.
Mugs - mostly from places we've been. New pics -->
*Small piano knickknacks
*Refrigerator magnets - all kinds.
*Ladybugs - mostly stuffed

*Soap Opera Digest--here are the issues I'm missing: 2/14/84, 3/13/84, 8/28/84, 10/23/84, 9/23/86, 10/6/86, 10/20/86, 11/17/86, 12/1/86, 12/15/86, 1/27/87, 2/24/87 THROUGH 5/19/87, 7/14/87, 7/28/87, 8/12/87, 8/26/87, 9/9/87, 11/3/87, 8/21/89, 4/28/92, 2/16/93 THROUGH 4/27/93, 9/28/93, 10/12/93, 11/9/93 THROUGH 12/21/93, 2/1/94, 3/15/94, 3/27/01, 5/22/01, 6/26/01, 7/10/01, 7/17/01, 11/13/01, 12/25/01, 2/26/02 (some of the more recent ones may turn up somewhere...). Please contact me if you have any of these for sale or trade! I have only a few to trade, though. I don't know if this list is still accurate or not.

*Russell Crowe/Gladiator Merchandise--I have a small collection. I gave most of this away when we moved to another collector.

Soap Opera memorabilia -- I've collected a ton of stuff from the net and when I went to the General Hospital and Port Charles Fan Luncheons.

Ask Jeeves Stuff--I collect a bunch of stuff from when I worked there...

Las Vegas $1 poker chips from the casinos.

Mork and Mindy Collectibles that I bought off Ebay

Small seashell collection These are ones I've collected or friends have given me, for the most part.

Stuffed cats and dogs I ended up with a bunch of these; I don't actively collect them, though.

Assorted TV/Movie collectibles--I have a small collection of various things I've picked up.

Assorted souvenirs--I have two shelves of misc. stuff we've picked up on our travels.

Misc. sports souvenirs--some baseballs, cards, pennants, etc. my husband has collected. A lot of this was given away when we moved.

stuffed dragon collection

stuffed mouse collection

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Links for bears, swizzle sticks, etc. can be found on my other pages linked above.

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