What Else Do You Collect?

That's a very interesting collection. Are the teeth sharp?

A few years ago, my mom tried to collect sugar packs (complete with sugar)... you know, these tiny ones (usually 5 grams - though we also have examples with 10, 15, or 2 grams, and I think a few with other amounts) that you get for your coffee at cafes (and usually empty right down in the coffee and throw the pack away). Except our ways of "collecting" them mainly came down to "save whatever ones we get, ask friends and relatives to do the same", so most of ours are from assorted cafes in Moscow, and the earliest examples are from the early 2000s (which is basically when we started).
We had one from somewhere really exotic - UAE, I think - that a particularly good friend brought us, then my grandmother opened it and used the sugar now our more exotic ones are all of the "brand of this small cafe" type (we have one from a really obscure place in a small town near Kaliningrad; went there again recently, wanted to get more, but apparently their sugar packs use a more generic brand now).
Not really as active these days, but I still try to take a few extra sugar packs from every cafe I visit (if nothing else, it's free conveniently packaged sugar).

I also tried to save every week's TV program in 2005-6 (still have many of them in a big bag at home) and every day's Metro issue in 2009-12 (still have a lot of these too, but only because we still haven't got around to throwing most of them in the trash).
And lots of assorted other worthless stuff, obviously.

The smaller teeth, the ones from raptors are pretty sharp

Coins are all that I would call a "collection" but I do have an accumulation of both rocks and fossils from when I was a kid. I haven't seen them in years, but they are in storage with my parents for the day my kids will appreciate them. The fossils were mostly cheap, super common stuff (ammonites, amber, corals, ferns, fish) but I honestly have no clue about the rocks--I was gifted most of them from my grandparent's old neighbor when they moved out.

Before I got back into coins a couple years ago, I "collected" craft beers, meaning that I had a collection of tasting notes from spending way too much money hunting down rare local brews.

Currently, aside from coins, I am mainly collecting books, bottles, and crystals.

Hi again

Can not remember if I posted this long time ago

I have collected some signed pictures of people.

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My wife would tell you that I collect hobbies.

Most of my other collecting-based hobbies have largely dried up, though. I used to be a rock collector, sports card collector, and comic book collector. The latter two lost their allure for me some time ago, and I simply lost interest in rocks. It was something that I loved when I was much, much younger, though.

Besides coins, I continue to collect two things. First is autographs - specifically I target TTM (Through The Mail) autographs, and have picked up some really great ones over time. Managed to get both Yogi Berra and Reggie Jackson the same year, a few years back, by sending my requests into Spring Training. Also, hunted down Buck O'Neil not long before he passed. Apart from signing the card that I had made for him to sign, he had sent me a nice handwritten note in response to things that I had included to him in my letter. I actually got what he sent back in the mail the day that he passed. Being a hockey fan, and it being playoff time, I would be remiss to not mention that Mario Lemieux responded through the mail a few years back - twice. Once when I sent him a card with a typo that I had made on it, and once when I sent it back to him with a corrected one and asking if he would sign again. He sent them both back to me, with the addition of a smiley face over the typo on the first. Class act, right there.

Besides that, I have my other collecting hobby, which is a bit strange. I collect vintage paintball guns. Now that I am in my 40s, I do not play as often as I used to, but still love the game. So, I like to pick up gear from the early 80s to early 90s, when I used to play the most, and restore them all to as close-to-original condition as possible. The problem that I have with this collection is just the space it takes up. I have around 30 of them, at the moment, and any way that I want to display them will take up the better part of a wall.