I collect rocks, sand, and shot glasses.

Games, Consoles & Donald Duck comics.

Postage stamps for many years starting as a kid. Steamship postcards, then trilobites and minerals for some years as an adult.

According to the added storage capacity of my bins, I have 192 gallons of movies, video games, books… not including 8 short boxes of comics.

Books – I have crates upon crates of them, since I don’t have a library in my house, they are stacked from floor to almost ceiling in my bedroom.

Movies – VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, digital. I got rid of a few hundred VHS a while ago, but still have about 20 or so left, stuff that will never be made into DVD, but that I have had forever. DVD and BR, I have probably a thousand of them. Digital, I don’t even want to consider how much I have spent on Prime movies and shows!

Rocks / Crystals – growing up, my dad was a geologist by hobby (I was born in the mid 70s) and he would drag us kids rockhounding. We would find rocks, he would cut and polish them, then show us the treasures we found and give them to us to keep. My dad’s collection was displayed all over the state I grew up in – over 500 pounds of rocks! – and it was consistently tuted as the best collection libraries and state houses had ever had, so it kind of rubbed off.

Edit, spelling

Books.

Those physical comics can be worth some bucks. Gold and silver age good to mint condition can be considered a collectible asset. Can’t say the same for digital comics.

Cheers!

CDs!

Uncommon beer bottles/cans, some books, and some small personal memorabilia. That’s it pretty much. I much rather keep a few photos or a video of a physical object, than to keep the object itself.

Coins, but very casually. I don’t really care much for rarity so much as novelty. ‘Special’ coins like those produced for Olympics, centenary events etc. It’s not something I go out of the way for but I guess it would count based purely on the amount on face value alone.

Otherwise, technical junk. Never throw tech away unless it’s fubar.

Just Lego really.

Coins

Oh, almost forgot. I apparently collect laptops. My family gets new ones every 3-5 years and I still have every one dating back at least 15 years.

Oh, and cell phones and tablets. Those date back to at least 2011. There’s an iPhone 6 and a couple Android v4 (and earlier) devices within arm’s reach of me right now.

Video games - just shy of a 4,000 game collection. It’s a large contribution to my data hording. I like having rom/iso backups of everything in my collection. Same goes for the movies I have, as well as getting digital options for my books, etc…

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The physical items are to display and use when things go offline/break, but the digital versions of my collection are what I use most.

I collect potentially useful stuff that I never find a use for.