What else do we collect?

[Jerjo]

My wife says I'm a media junkie but compared to some of you guys my CD/LP collection is "manageable". And yeah, we've got lots of DVDs. But when we were down and out a few years ago there was a massive purge, from music to books to comics to movies. I miss some it but it had to be done. Now we're flush again, with a place with lots of room, and my wife says she could give a damn how much money I spend on books and CDs. I've been somewhat slow this year, but last year I probably had enough stuff come in the mail to give the postal truck suspension damage.

Or, and pint beer glasses have become a thing with me. That reminds me, I need to pour a beer.

[Trane]

Do a Google search for "collection of family photos".

So, just because I got 50 family photos stocked in a cigar box (I'm not even sure where I put it last) , it would be a collection???

[nosebone]

YES!

[ronmac]

Do a Google search for "collection of family photos".

I always called is a family album.

[Trane]

sorry, but this is riduculous...

I got a 24 beer crate in my fridge >> it's a collection

Ditto for my 450 bottles of wine in my cellar

[Gruno]

I always called is a family album.

Yes. You keep your collection in an album. Trane keeps his family photo collection in a box.

[Yanks2014]

I only checked C... though saying I'm proud of having all three NeBeLNeST albums or some Enfin Libre book for ex) might be over-stating it
That's preposterous

I have all three albums from NeBeLNeST and enjoy them quite a bit actually. Hoping for a fourth album some day. Loved their set at Nearfest.

[nosebone]

I wish they spelled it Nebelnest.
It's easier.

[IMWeasel]

while I have more CDs than anything else, I also have ....
DVDs
Die-Cast Cars
Stuffed Animals
Old Video Games

...so...yeah.

[ronmac]

Yes. You keep your collection in an album. Trane keeps his family photo collection in a box.

But, I have a collection of albums.

[Jerjo]

Does porn count?

[trurl]

Does porn count?

I think if you own porn that you're planning to beat off to eventually but haven't got around to yet, or porn you can't beat off to because unsealing it will devalue it, yes.

[Trane]

So, just because I got 50 family photos stocked in a cigar box (I'm not even sure where I put it last) , it would be a collection???

YES!

not according to this, it isn't....

This is getting crazy..,

col·lec·tion (k-lkshn)
n.

2. A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
3. A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer: promoted the summer collection in the store window.
4. An accumulation; a deposit: a collection of dust on the piano.

my pics are stored together for practicability reasons, but not to be shown or studied... they're not displayed - unlike my music and books, which is rather hard to do otherwise, unless I buy specific furniture (discussed in Tom's recent storage thread)

I have all three albums from NeBeLNeST and enjoy them quite a bit actually. Hoping for a fourth album some day. Loved their set at Nearfest.

Actually, I'll be quite happy to buy their (unlikely >> I'm pretty sure they've broken up)) fourth album (as long as they didn't veer metal, disco or techno)... maybe an archives live album (Steve F???)....
but am I proud of having their albums... or Genesis' or Crimson's.... Nope, I don't draw any spoecific pride in ownin tons of CDs or books

[Trane]

Strangely enough.... no-one has even brought up my signature, where I call my piles of music discs a "collection"

[Greg]

Sharp and blunt dangerous objects, sake sets and Chinese/Japanese tea pots.

[Gruno]

my pics are stored together for practicability reasons, but not to be shown or studied... they're not displayed

2. A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.

Strangely enough.... no-one has even brought up my signature, where I call my piles of music discs a "collection"

I noticed it. I figured you were just trolling around with nonsense.

[davis]

Musically. Everything by the musician or band that rocks the world. Demos, promos, singles, etc.

ditto, and alternate versions, outtakes, rehearsals & unofficial recordings of concerts

[trurl]

Being a completest = collector.

[Lopez]

I've got an unopened, intact 6-pack of Billy Beer. Is that considered a collection of Billy Beer? Wish I had sold it to years ago when people were asking $3000; though, I doubt anyone was buying it at that price.

[Adm.Kirk]

I guess, by now we must be family

It's certainly possible! Got any ancestors in Virginia?

Bill

[Yanks2014]

I've got an unopened, intact 6-pack of Billy Beer. Is that considered a collection of Billy Beer? Wish I had sold it to years ago when people were asking $3000; though, I doubt anyone was buying it at that price.

Definitely a collection, because would you really want to open it after all these years? I remember seeing cans of it, though I never drank it, too young at the time.

[trurl]

I've got an unopened, intact 6-pack of Billy Beer. Is that considered a collection of Billy Beer? Wish I had sold it to years ago when people were asking $3000; though, I doubt anyone was buying it at that price.

Not a collection. A collection has to have more than one thing; multiples of the same thing like a 6-pack don't count. It is, however, an excellent addition to a collection of beer.

[Dave the Brave]

I collect bills.

When I get a final notice I figure my collection of that particular debt is complete.
Does that make me a completest?

D t B

[nycsteve]

I keep my collection of tighty whiteys in my top dresser drawer.

[wideopenears]

[opens Trane's Fridge]"Hey Trane, nice Beer Collection you've got here"[/closes fridge] "Hey Trane, nice Single Malt collection you've got there...can I, uh, ....."see" it?"


I think what people are "bristling at" is not what the "collection" is called, but the underlying motivation. In other words, do we "collect," or form a "Collection," out of a clearly understood desire to have a "collection?" Are we "Collectors?" Or are we lovers of some sort of object or other...i.e., are we "Music lovers?"

To others, my ridiculous amount of CD's, CDR's, vinyl, cassettes, is a "collection." I don't usually think of it that way...but others have called it that, and I accept that definition. Same with my books--I have a LOT of poetry books, for example, but I don't "collect" like some do...I know people who have multiple editions of the same book, for example....or people who have copies of books (or music media) they don't value highly, subjectively.

I used to have a lot of pipes--tobacco pipes--and I hung with collectors--some people wouldn't even smoke a new, un-broken-in, pipe...while others would be baffled by that sort of thinking. "You've got a 1959 Dunhill Billiard and it's not been smoked? What are you thinking, man, pack that thing up and let's go!"