The Kiwi Farms Collectible Thread - Sperg to your heart's content about Legos, and not lego things

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I collect/press/catalogue leaves and flowers from everywhere I've been since 2006.

I also have a number of pens from hotels and motels and other places, as well as a LOT of shells and sand dollars.

I've got my hands on a rather impressive assortment of really old and foreign fairy tale books. We're talking really old (oldest one is from 1879), and really foreign (Russian, Arabic, Chinese, you name it).
 
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I also wanna get in to collecting old computers, anyone know which is the best one to get for beginners?

I also wanna know where if theres any new Horizons related merch for sale
 
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Dicaprio Delorean said:
I also wanna get in to collecting old computers, anyone know which is the best one to get for beginners?

I also wanna know where if theres any new Horizons related merch for sale
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There's a shit ton of models, it's hard to say which is the best.
I recommend you follow uxwbill and bbishoppcm and check out their older videos.
The grandy daddy of older computers you can get is an IBM 5150, the first PC (I mean obviously there are older desktop computers but that was the first to be branded a "PC" and set all the common standards we have today), only thing is it's really hard to get a hold of one these days. If you manage to get one you've some genuine beige gold right there.
 
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Dicaprio Delorean said:
I also wanna get in to collecting old computers, anyone know which is the best one to get for beginners?

I also wanna know where if theres any new Horizons related merch for sale
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you heard of a guy called Lazy Game Reviews? he has a ton of obscure and old technology related videos. some on the history of tech companies too.
 
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I want Fallout Funko Pops but I'm worried it'll go down the same way the MLP shit did, and I don't even like some of the designs all that much (like Hancock...I don't know what it is, it just doesn't strike my fancy for some reason. Too cartoony maybe?)

Don't worry famo, I'd totally have figures and paintings from my stories if I was at all artistically inclined. Would you mind sending a pic of some of them?
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Yeah. I didn't get many aside from Vault Boy, a Deathclaw and some of the power armor color variants for that reason. I did a little paintwork on the Vault Boy one to add in the iconic smile and the shading on his nose, so no one will probably want him. lel
-I think Hancock is largely due to them giving him the same face they used for the feral ghoul figure which doesn't fit his character. Valentine is ugly too, but it's Valentine so it's to be expected.

Sure! Remind me sometime and I'll get some pics snapped.
 
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I don't actively seek to fill out collections of things but I do collect stuff when I have the chance. I have three typewriters, around 500 "45 vinyls and dozens of "33s, I like to pick up bits and pieces when I'm abroad like I've just got back form Budapest and have a 60's Russian windup razor, some old Pengo notes and a little Communist book. I think my favourite thing I have though are the 212 Laserdiscs I have and a couple of players.
 
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i collect unusual firearms chambered (usually) in prevalent cartridges (of those that take cartridges). i eventually would like to have an example of every sort of firearm action/major design made (not including clones or minor variations of which there are too many to bother with). i'm primarily interested in the action, H&K firearms, and for funsies clones of certain service weapons i've used.

i have 219 firearms and 13 explosives in my personal collection spanning 480 years of firearms technology; not counting accessories. perhaps a quarter million pieces of ammunition (of varying types). obviously, i keep my private inventory separate from my business inventory.

last time i did an insurance audit i was hovering a bit over the half million dollar mark, but that's highly misleading as it's inflated for historical pieces, unique or especially rare pieces, and various restricted/regulated pieces that are expensive because of artificial scarcity. it's real value ignoring those things is substantially less.
 
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I like to collect Starbucks cards. I just like the designs, with the cards that have braille on them being my favorites. I have no clue how many I have now but I managed to get quite a few from my local Starbucks back in December. There were so many Christmas and New Years themed cards.
 
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Used to collect Garfield and Simpsons crap but I stopped like 5 years ago. I pretty much sold most of it or packed it away now.
 
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I collect wristwatches and cigars. At my last inventory I had about 700 cigars and 20-something watches. My latest Cigar purchase was two boxes of Alec Bradley Post Embargos and a half-box of Prensados from a box-split with a buddy. The last watch I bought was a Hamilton Khaki King Automatic (post-ETA movement). Other than that I sort of halfway collect bourbon and single-action revolvers.

I became my grandfather so gradually that I didn't even notice. I'll bet that fucker is somewhere laughing.
 
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If this counts, I collected Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh back when I was younger. Then again, what kid didn't?

Now, very recently this year, I've started collecting playing cards, not aggressively but just kinda casually when I see a playing card pack I don't have but would look nice to have around.
 
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I like to collect Starbucks cards. I just like the designs, with the cards that have braille on them being my favorites. I have no clue how many I have now but I managed to get quite a few from my local Starbucks back in December. There were so many Christmas and New Years themed cards.
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Do you do anything with those cards? Like display them? I could see an interesting decoupage made from a shit ton of Starbucks cards
 
Most of this thread would be my personal hell because clutter sucks but I do collect succulent plants in my yard. My favorite is the split rock Pleiospilos nelii

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Do you do anything with those cards? Like display them? I could see an interesting decoupage made from a shit ton of Starbucks cards
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I haven't really decided what to do with them. I mostly just like looking at them. Though displaying them could look cool.
 
A lot of people know I collect G1 My Little Pony dolls, I haven't bought any for about a year because shipping prices and the US to Canadian exchange rate makes even the cheapest doll unreasonablely priced. Something about the art style of G1 makes them extremely appealing because they look very soft and friendly
I used to collect G3 as well and I had about 200 dolls from G3 and I decided to donate them all to local children because I liked G1 better and I started running out of room for these damn things. I only kept like, 4 of them and one of them I kept because her name was Jazzmatazz and that's hilarious

I also sort of collect house plants I guess, I don't consider them part of a collection but I do have quite a few. My favorite are Pitcher Plants (Nepenthes) I have 3 and they all live in a large tank under a grow light.
 
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