Off-Topic Forum

Thank you!  It's definitely and addiction

My focus on collecting has changed over the years. Hotwheels cars as a kid were by far my favorite thing to collect as a child and I still have all of my original cars in a 5 gallon bucket.  I started collecting baseball cards in the early 80's and stopped collecting somehwere around 91/92. I picked it back up in 2017 My grandfather got me started on US coins as a kid when he gave me his coin collection.  I've continued the collection since and it has grown three to four times in size.  I went through a time where I was buying collections of Vintage Star Wars toys in the late 90s.. I still have all the action figures, but let go of all the bigger/bulky as they took up to much "space." A few years ago I found myself collecting Original and Super Nintendo games. Luckly I go into this before the prices went through the roof.  I also try to keep an eye out for Art Deco items that I can put in my office. 

Hoo boy...

• Hockey video games. I have over 300+ including MANY different European variants of the NHL series covers. There are other hockey video game collectors out there, but I know of only one other person who tried to collect all the Euro covers as well.
• License plates. I travel a decent bit and like to get license plates for the places I've been. One of my most obscure/valuable is a Nunavut plate. I have around 50+
• National/State Park Patches. I try to get one every time I visit a new place. Have some country patches thrown in too. I easily have 200+
• Easter Island stuff. Always been fascinated with this place, I have a small collection of related cards, comics, books and movies. I actually visited about 10 years ago.
• I have an old collection of comic books I rarely add to. A lot of Golden/Silver age Disney stuff. 

I have other small collecting interests here and there, nothing active enough to list specifically. 

Ticket stubs from sporting events and concerts....

German Iron Crosses

U.S. Flags older the better

Stamps

Haha.. I have my original hot wheels also.. in my original case.. I now collect just  hot wheel ,matchBox corvettes.. I have a little over 900 .

Amazing on what everybody collects. Besides Philadelphia Flyers and players with the last ne Chamberlain. I collects shot glasses, disney pins( love the trading aspect in the parks pre pandemic). Also collect beer caps for my outdoor bar top whenever I get my next house. The wife and I also collect wine and wine glasses from different wineries. Along with poker chips from Harley Davidson dealerships

Since my original post on this thread way back in the past (ok, just 2019) I have been able to start collecting license plates. In fact I just officially started last month. I redid part of my house to have a permanent place to work on models and the walls were bare. Since I'm a car nut I knew I would put something car related there, and it didn't take me long to have the license plate idea hit me. So far I've only gotten 4 hung up but I know I have a few more mixed into my stuff that I need to round up. 

I'm not going to rush out to fill the wall, I'm going to take it as it goes and build the collection over time, mainly by car shows. The Rhinebeck car show always has a ton of license plates for sale but I always walked past then because I didn't have a place for them. Even just as recently as three months ago this happened. I know I won't be able to go to Rhinebeck next year so it'll have to wait...

My main focus is going to be on New York state, with the goal to be a type set. But I also already have a South Dakota, Ohio, New Jersey and Kentucky in my collection so it won't be totally NY. I may focus more on the 90s designs from other states. We had only one design from 1986 to 2002 and it's still the iconic plate for me. I know I have one in my storage unit but I just have to locate it. It will go right dead center in front of me so I can always see it easily. 

I might have a New York plate for you, Billy. Possibly from the '90s. Feel free to send me a PM here.

I may have a PA plate from when I lived there. I will look for it and let you know