Do you collect anything?

 I collect "picture" cookbooks, or unusal ones, proclein "eggs", tea cups, Blue an white proclein pieces,  one from each different country I can find, Thought I was really smart one when I managed to pick up an small figure of an mother and her child with one of the last stamps of USSR on the bottom of it. I like to collect ususal baskets and wood items also. I can't think of to much more, this keeps me busy as it is. I am getting around to hand-made items also these days...as the younger set doesn't have the talent as the older older set does in many things..esp fabrics....yes, this keeps me busy and I also have an lot of dust collecting at times, but I wouldn't give it up. I remeber as an little girl in an cracker jack box I got the prettiest little heart pendent in an  florescent pink plastic with an sail boat etched it in, I still have it. Some of my best stuff is constantly been broken though...at one time I had six little dish side ashtrays, from those grand dinner parties of the 50's..broken. As is a lot of my Native american Pottery...so I gave up on those. Little at an time, but when I get blue and out right depressed, I go thrift shop looking for these kinds of items...picks me up an bit. Now I have some of this stuff boxed away for the grandkids.  

That's why I don't collect anything anymore, apart from postcards, but I keep them with all my old letters and cards.  I'll display all my new ones, though. :o)   I'm sentimental like you, Stephanie, I even kept stuff I didn't like because someone gave it to me as a gift.  But eventually it became overwhelming (probably because I've been around so long and haven't moved houses in 18 years).  LOL. So I made myself "let go" and have gradually been able to get rid of a lot of stuff.  And I don't miss anything that went.  I concentrate on the memories, like you, Wolf. 

I’m writing this from the sugar prison, how silly of me to think the sugar police wouldn’t get me, I had my arm twisted around my back and was led off along with all my sugar wrappers in tow. My case comes up next Friday, wish me well.