What Do You Collect!
 

I collect holiday Barbie's and Christmas villages i am obsessed with them my mom buys me a holiday Barbie every year for Christmas for the last 13 yrs and the villages i have gotten so many i had to build a 9ftx4ft table to hold them all here is a pic of my village last year it's not all of it just the corner but you get it

ohh i found more yay

anyone?

I collect I Love Lucy & Lucille Ball memorabillia. I started when I was 10. I have tons of stuff!! Here is a pic of all of her barbies that were made & a few other things.....that's not even 1/64th of what I have! LOL!:D

Wow great pics!!

Oh Amber the village is beautiful. I wish we would have had this site earlier!!!...I had a little shop that my brother-in-law gave me to start a village, but I put it in my garage sale. I would have rather just sent it on to you for nothing.

You are probably gonna love this...I am 51 right? I still have the original Barbie and the box she came in, original Ken, and Skipper. I also have the original "Hello Heidi" doll. She is about 6 or seven inches tall and when you push the button on her belly, her arm raises up.:)

My favorite movie of all time is The Wizard of Oz. I have a pair of ruby slippers (child size but they are so cute), the Wizard of Oz monopoly board and trivia game. I also have figurines and a coffee mug, the movie, the soundtrack and posters. I would have named my Yorkie Toto (even though the original Toto was a Cairn Terrier) but my husband named him Nikko and since he gave him to me, I couldn't argue. I just LOVE this movie!!:)

Wow the original that is neat!!!! I love those ones my first Barbie i have is worth $1500.00 about 6 years ago when i looked it up in the collections book but i was young when i got it so i did open it (shame on me as i shake my head) But it's not the money it's the collection that i love. As for the village thanks I'm very proud and darn you sold it lol

I remember being afraid of the flying monkeys when I was little. It was a big production at our house. We always looked forward to the movie on TV. It was an even bigger production when we got our first color television. We didn't know it started out black and white and then into color.

Yeah, I don't know how much mine is worth. I received it for Christmas in 1960 I think. I'm not sure. I was only 5 or 6 at the time if I remember right. She was the one that had the curley hair right above her forehead, then it was put in a pony tail and at the end of the poney tail was more curls. I think she was one of the first made. I have a bunch of clothes for her and then my mom made a bunch more.

oh i do to i have the entire Barbie set of the Wizard of oz!! Dorthy, Tin man, Scare crow, Lion, and Glenda my mom bought me them a few years back. At our local Micheals craft store they have a pumkin set made into them here is the link
tin man http://www.michaels.com/art/online/p...eet?pid=j00360
lion http://www.michaels.com/art/online/p...eet?pid=j00361

OMIGOD those are sooo cute!! I remember the Barbie set when it came out a few years back. I think they had them at the Warner Brother's store. When i went they only had Glenda. I was so upset.

Those are really cute. I wish I had a collection, but don't really know what I would start with and where in the heck I'd put it...

I think my Mom was wanting me to collect Angels and has given me some, but even though I love them, I have to dust them, too!! Come on Mom, give me a break!!:)

I have Tammy, my mother would not let me have Barbie, she was too curvy, not a good role model for a little girl. My daughters had lots of Barbies.

I do not collect anything at the moment, went through the Beanie Baby thing and have bunches in plastic tubs in the attic. Have some Avon figurines stored in the cabinet. Collected post cards of our county courthouse for a while, have one from 1894. Guess if I collect anything, that would be it, the post cards. They don't take up much space or collect dust in my filing cabinet.

In my opinion, at this point in life, collectables are money drains, and dust collectors, so I'm into simplifying. But if collecting is your thing, more power to you. We all have something that makes our lives more interesting & hunting for that special something can be a lot of fun. ;)

Hmm. i should go take a pic of them

I'm kind of there too!! I guess about the only thing I keep, not really a collection is mementos. After my father-in-law passing we have a lot of his things like birth certificates, Navy items including his uniform, you know just stuff about his life. I keep a lot of things of my sons and have things of mine and hubby's as well. They are in plastic tubs in the attic. It's nice to go back and read journals and things. Life is so different now.

Mine are in the attic, so my pictures would have to wait until Christmas when I bring down the tree...LOL

well i took some but now i can't find the cord to my cam:mad: I need to tie the damn thing to my neck lol

ok here are some pics

LOL :D You just crack me up!!! LOL :D

more pics

She looks very similiar to mine. I wish I would have collected Barbies. But I just don't have the money or the room now! Would have been a great idea when I was little, huh?:)

I collect snowmen. They range from 1" to over 3 feet tall and have a place of honor in my living room year 'round. I have a couple dozen.

Hubby keeps promising to make me a full size one for the lawn, but can't seem to get started on it.

Those christmas villages are SO pretty! I don't have space for anything like that, but they really are nice!

I also collect holiday barbies! I have all of them except the first three in the series, plus 1995 (when i thought i was too old for barbies!) Last year, I also got the inuit barbie, and if i remember correctly, it was only sold in canada. It's gorgeous!

Man....I screwed up big time not collecting Barbies when I was little didn't I?? I could have a gold mine...although I wouldn't have sold them for the money. Like I said, mine are all put away in my attic. I also have a Bride Doll and a Chattie Cathy Doll. Those are old let me tell ya...LOL:)

Well i used to put my village on the top of my entertainment center but i out grew it last year so i made my own tables lol i have to take out my couch to put it up but i have 2 living rooms so it's ok. Yeah janet you should've collected dang. Oh i have the 95' barbie but it's one of the ones i opened but i did put it back in the box so?

The box that came with my Barbie was just that! A long narrow box, big enough for Barbie, but you couldn't see her until you took the lid off. I still have that box too. And shoes....lots of Barbie shoes.

Amber, those are the same ones I saw at the Warner Brother's store. I LOVE them. They only had Glenda and the Lion I think.

The tin man is may fav!!! Janet whne you get her out i would love to see a pic of her those are my fave barbies!

I will get pics of them for you. But it will be around Christmas time. I'd have all kinds of stuff to move to get to them. I will remember though, because everytime I get the Christmas stuff down, I always look through my Barbie stuff.

I can't wait!!!:D

The pic's of everyone's collections are wonderful. I collect Santa Clause's and snow globes. My husband always teases me during the Christmas holiday because he says we have our own personal "Santa Shrine". :)

GOD BLESS SANTA!!!!

I have some kids on the bus every year that want to tell all the little ones that there is no Santa!! That drives me crazy, so naturally I have to tell the non-believers that there is too a Santa. He may not be someone you can touch, but you can feel his presence all around.

Ahhh!!! So sweet Janet! Hey look you only have 5 more post till 500 you go girl!!!

Oh wow!!! I didn't even notice I was having so much fun with you guys. What can I talk about now,....okay some one ask me some questions...and make them good ones...LOL

Hmmm... if you could collect anything in the world and money was no object what would it be?

For me that's easy... YORKIES. I'd have a whole house full of em. :) :)

Amber I love Christmas villages to, I use to be an Elvis Collector and a few years back I brought a replica of Graceland it is so beautiful I put it out on Christmas. I am a big collector of angels, I have angels all over my home. They are so pretty...

Gina

My mom loves Elvis she can't get enough of him. It sounds really pretty

Me too!! I would like to build on another room, for my Yorkies, complete with a grooming and bath area, night area, exercise area. It would have to be a big room and then I would add more Yorkies..:p