Other addictions besides collecting guns:

[stonebuster]

I've got twice as many fishing rods in my garage & basement I accumulated over 50 yrs than guns in my safe. I'm talking 40 plus rods, most of which I don't use anymore.. I've been taking them to the city where folks fish off the bridges and leaving them there a few at a time. They always disappeared so better than throwing them away. Makes someone happy I think.

 

[Hvymax]

Triggering Commies. Their screams and gnashing of teeth bring True Joy to my heart!!!

 

[Old1215]

I guess I tend to collect stuff that most other folks throw away. Here are parts of a couple of "collections" that aren't currently in boxes (no duplicates, all different ;^):

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I also collect AK pistol grips, blank firing devices, flap holsters, etc., etc...
:-)

 

[Fox Mike]

Never can have too many tools.A recent purchase. Small Phillips screw, Allen, star, and tiny flat blade.

 

[NitroAcres]

Motorcycles, I've been told it is now 28.. I only ride about 10 of them...One more on my list is a '77 Harley XLCR..perhaps before my ticket is punched I can find one I can afford.

 

[Old1215]

For 50 years I collected tins, big and small, wicker baskets, vinyl records, Fenton glass and other ceramics. I had suitcases full of tobacco ephemera. Zippo lighters and all those tins were filled with pins, buttons, baubles, matchbooks and anything that was tiny and unique. Had quite a few old tools.
I was always interested in the unique-don’t see that everyday- kind of things. Very, very eclectic tastes. Then my 30x50 storage building was robbed while out of town working. Took the life out of me. I’d had some of those collections since childhood. Now I’m left with a few totes of glass and a handful of things that were in a different location or I had displayed at the house. That vinyl collection was over 600 albums. Quit going to yard sales and flea markets because it’s too painful to see something that would have been “perfect “for one of my collections. I only had a few “large collections “ but many “small collections “.
Oh, almost forgot my coffee pot collection. I had about 15-20. Glass percolators from 50-60’s all the way back to the civil war.
I’m gonna go cry about it to myself for a while. Heart is still broken. I lost a steamer trunk full of family documents such as death, birth and marriage certificates going back generations and of no monetary value but priceless to me. Among other things.
I’m cured of that addiction.

 

[NAILSNATHAN]

i am addicted to throwing away money

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

My addictions run in cycles, then die. In my youth it was plastic models. At one time, I had over 100 plastic airplanes suspended from the ceiling with tacks. And 100 model cars (mostly AMT) on the shelving of my bedroom.

Next was cars. I've bought new cars for me, my bride (of 47 years) and each of my 3 kids - one when they turned 16, one when they left for college and one when the graduated college and got their first job. Over the years, I've purchased 66 cars, most of them new. Looking back, it was of course a huge waste of money, but at the time it was great fun. My two cars now are a 2011 BMW 3-Series w/36K miles and a 2018 Explorer Sport w/46k miles. Given my bride and I are both in our late 70s, my car-buying days are likely over - maybe one more depending on our driving capabilities and the cost of gasoline.

I've also bought/owned/ridden 10 motorcycles - my personal preference was weekend rides from DFW to Kerrville, TX (round trips about 700 miles) to ride the Holy Trinity (Ranch Roads 335, 336 and 337 which are also known as the "Three Twisted Sisters"). My son and I once did an Iron Butt run - rode 1,300 miles in 24 hours. And in 2003 my two sons and I rode my 2002 Honda Blackbird and 2003 Honda Goldwing from DFW to the 4 Corners area - a total of 4,600 miles in 6 days. MY single fastest ride was going 175 mph on my Blackbird - an exquisite machine. Fastest car ride was 163 mph in my "tuned/blown 725 hp 2002 Corvette. Slowed down only because the front end got too light. Other two fastest jaunts were 155 mph in my M-3 on I-10 in West By-God Texas, and 153 in my 2004 BMW 540i on the way back to DFW from Wichita Falls, TX.

Not a binge, but I do love building doll houses for my granddaughters - the kind that take 6 months to build and cost six digits. Below are pictures of my most recent dollhouse build and my 2002 Corvette toy. The dollhouse has over $3,000 of materials cost and took me 8 hours-per-day, 5-days-per-week for about 6 months. There are about 4,000 wood shingles, each hand stained and affixed, chimney and foundation are made from rock I scavanged at local construction sites. All floors, wainscotting, etc is oak plank. .:

Firearms were my final binge - I won't say how many I've bought over the years, but I've sold most of them and still own a baker's dozen.

I'm like Jimmy Buffet in that regard: "I made enough money to buy Miami but I pizzed it away so fast."

 

[sheepdawg]

Golf, I can't find a cheap hobby.

 

[JAYDAWG]

I'm only 10 miles from the biggest lake in Iowa, Red Rock, but I race on Saylorville Lake, about 65 miles away. That said, I've only been in Iowa for the last 15 years. Before that I lived in Portland Oregon, and raced on the Columbia River and all up and down the West Coast and Canada. I learned to sail, and raced my first race at Spirit Lake Boy Scout Camp on Mt. St. Helens in 1978, two years before the volcano blew. I miss the incredible beauty of the Pacific Northwest, but I wouldn't go back. Once you've tasted the freedom of the midwest, it's impossible to go back to dumbf@#$istan.

When I hear Spirit Lake.....I think of old Harry Truman, the first to die when the mountain blew.
Read about him here.
https://www.historylink.org/File/22801

My wife and I have property on Clallam Bay on the strait of Juan De Fuca looking at Vancouver Island Canada.
Clallam Bay is the turn around point for the smaller boats in the Swiftsure sailing yacht race every Memorial day weekend. We very much enjoy watching all the boats come in, epically with the westerly blowing, makes it challenging for some!

 

[Kevin]

Man, some impressive collections here. I can’t say that I do anything in excess. I’ve got some small collections, but nothing major.

Sometimes I wonder about what to do with all the stuff and junk that I’ve accumulated over the years.

 

[Watchman]

When I hear Spirit Lake.....I think of old Harry Truman, the first to die when the mountain blew.
Read about him here.
https://www.historylink.org/File/22801

My wife and I have property on Clallam Bay on the strait of Juan De Fuca looking at Vancouver Island Canada.
Clallam Bay is the turn around point for the smaller boats in the Swiftsure sailing yacht race every Memorial day weekend. We very much enjoy watching all the boats come in, epically with the westerly blowing, makes it challenging for some!

I've done at least a dozen Swiftsures. Clallum Bay is the shortest of the three courses. We usually did the middle course to Neah Bay.

I met 'ol Harry Truman once. He came out to yell at us to get off his dock! :ROFLMAO: Kind of an onery old curmudgeon... stubborn too I guess. He refused to leave even after being warned.

 

[Watchman]

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And a VW lol
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I love those Thornbirds! Great mudders.

 

[Huskerguy72]

I collect wives. I must be terrible at it because I have only found one in the last 52 years. Maybe its because I found the best one right away and my wife hunting instincts have been permanently disabled.

 

[Randyzzz]

At one point does an accumulation turn into a collection? Watches, knives, Ruger’s, jeeps, hot wheels, coins, camera equipment, tools, car parts for cars I no longer own, the list goes on and on. Sole of these accumulations I have sold- like coins, hot wheels… although I still have a ton of HotWheels Jeep Scramblers. As far as cars go, we’ve been married 45 years and we have owned 180 cars in that time. A lot were projects, but if I had the title I counted it.

I’m currently in a phase of minimizing my accumulations. I started listing stuff on EBay last week. I’m amazed at what some stuff I paid almost nothing for is bringing. But I’m more amazed at the fees eBay charges…every cent that goes through their system, they get 14-16%.

 

[gnappi]

For me it's also guitars, cameras, flashlights, firearm branded pocket knives and reloading equipment. I can do this because I lost 140 pounds of fat, she's not around to stop me anymore!

 

[Crockett12]

Addiction? Dogs were my addiction!
I was born loving dogs and eventually became an All-breed Professional Dog Handler showing conformation dogs in AKC dog shows, That was my 24/7 business that took me all across North America showing client dogs. In 1988 I married a breeder of the breed of which I eventually began to specialize, which is Shetland Sheepdogs! We used to show 12 to 15 Shelties at every show and we attended 100 to 120 shows a year for many years! We've now retired and have recently quit breeding but were amazingly successful with our breeding program while producing many top winning Shelties!
There are 7 Grouos of dogs in AKC shows: Sporting, Hounds, Working, Terriers, Toys, Non-Sporting and Herding! Each year the AKC awards a "Breeder of the Year" and they nominate one breeder from each group for the award! This year my wife and I are being honored at the AKC Royal Canin Dog Show next month in Orlando, Fla, as the Herding Group Breeder of the Year!

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

I collect wives. I must be terrible at it because I have only found one in the last 52 years. Maybe its because I found the best one right away and my wife hunting instincts have been permanently disabled.

Probably a storage problem.....

 

[Jack Ryan]

Pepsi, carbs, cake, fudgesicles.

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

Knives of various styles and types, 1000+.
Bullet Molds, 400+
Blacksmithing hammers and tongs...Bunches.
Axes, 100+... And, chainsaws. I absolutely love 'em! New or vintage, 50+.

 

[txramfan]

I'm addicted to getting old and I have no intention to stop getting older.

Seriously I don't have one other than acquiring useless information and trying to understand the stock market.

 

[jimbo1096]

I’ve got a lot of stuff, enough to crowd at my house but nothing I would call a collection. I’m gonna let my grandkids all figure out what to do with it when I’m gone.

 

[p345Fan]

Welll, it used to be guitars. But as I am getting arthritic, I can’t really play them any more. So, I sold a bunch and turned them into guns.

Also Mego action figures from the 1970’s. I have a bunch of those. I have a complete set of type 2 Star Trek with the Capt. Kirk autographed by Shatner. All new on the card. When Shatner goes, I will auction that set off.

 

[roylt]

My girlfriend taught me three of anything is a collection...... So I have a lot of things. Too many really....

I only have one girlfriend though and plan to keep it that way.

 

[vito]

Not being a collector, I am trying to understand the enjoyment of just having a ton of something, be it clocks, Barbi dolls, or Zippo lighters. What does one do with their collection? Is it just something to look at occasionally, or to handle and then put back on the shelf or in the box? And while I imagine some families share a focus of a collection, so that when the old geezer dies the collection passes on to a member of a younger generation, I wonder how many beloved collections go into the trash or to Goodwill when the owner is gone.

Some type of collections make more sense to me than others. If you collect DVD's for instance, you can enjoy watching those movies, possibly over and over. Or an art collection that you can enjoy just viewing great art hanging on your wall. Or possibly a collection of something that will likely increase in value over time, but then the collection is primarily an investment, not just a collection.

I guess I don't have the "collector gene" or something. I own a very small number of firearms and really have no desire to expand on what I have since every one of the guns meets a need, primarily home or personal defense. I have only one gun that I attach some sentiment to , primarily because it is the first gun that I bought after suffering a home burglary, and it gave me a sense of comfort knowing that if those thieves returned when I was home I would have a means of dealing with them.

 

[oliver507]

Motorcycles, I've been told it is now 28.. I only ride about 10 of them...One more on my list is a '77 Harley XLCR..perhaps before my ticket is punched I can find one I can afford.

Hey Nitro, do you have any BSA’s, Triumph’s, Ducati’s or a GTR?

 

[s4s4u]

 

[hittman]

1/16 scale toy farm tractors. The stuff from the 50s thru 70s.

 

[BloodyThumb]

Rebuilding old Hamilton RR pocket watches and collecting military watches and chronometers.
Teaching a whole pack of grandkids how to drive their parents out of their skulls.

.. but the most time spent with the kids at the range, or just me.

 

[jav]

I don’t have a lot of stuff I have a few guitars one know is with a pretty penny 1950 es330 , I a few nice watches lots of guns of course . The wife a I travel a lot so that keeps us busy . And I do have a little collection of knives and my old 1990 bronco