MOPED ARMY

Things from the pre-internet past, analog clocks, radios, I have a battery operated turntable/stereo system that collects itself into a briefcase sized thing, transformer style, cars for sure, the more obscure the better. Memories form a simpler time.

I briefly took an interest to guns years back but got out of that hobby thank God (too much money). I can count on 1 hand how many I own and they are fun to go target shooting with once in a blue moon. For the longest time it was just mopeds and dirt bikes but now I also collect video games however I've pumped the brakes considerably on that as of late. I'm getting to the point where I feel I have enough and as of late have been motivated to thin things down. I recently moved and with this new house and a wonderful wife I think I'm content!

I enjoy collecting / hunting thrift stores and get my fix sometimes by searching for stuff my kids want. Like my son has been into pokemon so I hunt places to find pokemon figures for him.

I don’t collect anything.

Like I said before, I believe in living for the moments. Experiencing something, being fulfilled by that for a season, and moving on.

If unique experiences could be put on display, I’d like to think my “collection” would be impressive.

My dad is a hoarder. I am disgusted by people having posessions just for the stuff to sit around.

Everything I own comes and goes. My wife thinks it’s annoying. Like I can’t make up my mind. My mind is made up... to keep trying new things.

I do have a wardrobe of t-shirts from places I’ve been or things I’ve done. Not an intensional collection. Just convenient to not buy clothes when people give you free shirts sometimes.

I like having real copies of my favorite books. Vestiges from the past. I like trees more, so I havent bought a paper book in a while.

I only collect records and bicycles these days. I've stopped collecting a lot of things that have no practical use and just take up space. Collecting things in the era of the internet just isn't that exciting.

For my record collection i still refuse to buy anything online, i could spend a day on Discogs and buy everything i ever wanted and there's absolutely no fun in that.

I haven't really bought anything unnecessary in the past year or so. I mainly collect old bicycles, antique hand tools and occasionally petroliana. I rarely go for the nice stuff, I like the stuff that would otherwise end up getting scrapped.

I used to collect old cigarette lighters, lawn darts, skateboards, jackets, weird toys, old beer signs, vintage bicycles, and just weird crap in general.

Lost it all over and over. Used to have about 70 skateboard decks, mostly from the early to late 80's, that I picked up from shops when I was on tours, or got new. This was back when they weren't worth anything but the retail price.

My apartment (and 80 other units) burned down in 1995, destroying them all. Probably coulda retired if I still had them and sold them off. A lot of them would be worth thousands today.

Beer signs and other large collectables all had to go when I was unemployed and moved into a friend's house in early 2000.

Got to the point of realization that I don't need 20 vintage bicycles. Cut that down to 4 custom ones I liked to ride. And two are for sale.

Still got a pile of lighters. Really fancy ones. Some worth good money. They're in a box somewhere and I use bics.

I've got too many jackets for the weather in southern California. Mostly gas station type jackets. I'm a sucker for a Red Cap jacket with a cool patch.

Now I've got a bunch of moped and small motorcycle engines. Didn't think I'd become a "collector" of minarelli engines, but until I build bikes for them, they're just taking up room in the garage.

For a while, it looked like I was collecting mopeds. The more obscure, the better. Now its just the ones I want to ride, and even 3 is too many. (Plus my race motorized bicycle, my Testi Grand Prix...)

I try not to collect anything anymore. In the end, it's just stuff I don't need, and don't use.

I am pretty much a hoarder. I love all yard sale, fleamarket, dump, Craigslist, finds. If I think its cool and mabye I can make money from it I will buy or take home. I actually have been cleaning up my yard and shop. It's hard to get rid of things you love but gets to a point when the things can give you anxiety. I love gasoline and things that use it. How many cylinders on your property, haha. I will make a new thread about this.

Over 100 film cameras. At least one of every camera polaroid produced. A few large format, lots of medium format, hassleblad, plaubel etc. Still mostly 35mm tho with my leica m7 at the high end down to shitty plastic stuff from the 50's.

Over 20,000 negatives

Broken dreams, pocket lint,

And amassed tools...

Worcester mass? I’ve got at least one I’ll be checking out up there this spring/summer. Massachusetts is kinda iffy though. They like to lock up photographers for even being near abandoned buildings... let alone in them. They’re very protective of things they don’t take care of. 😂

The only physical pin I have is one I picked up off the floor in a bando and pinned to my bag. I think it’s a blood donation one, there were dozens of them just rusting away. I figured It’s a way to remember the place when it finally caves in and they won’t miss it. 🤷‍♂️

I collected flashlights until all the relatives and friends said oh you collect flashlights

so for birthdays and whatever they gave me generic that you could buy at any store flashlights,

No’ I collected mining Type lights and railroad type lights and the same flashlights like from from the titanic kind of flashlights that only have one Of if I could find it.

I don’t want anything because the batteries leak and corrode everything everything of the 500 lights I have maybe only 50 that any good anymore,

I should’ve said nothing that way people wouldn’t give me anything which at the time is Japanese Taiwanese or even China in their infant years junk!

it just ends up more in the trash and I’m throwing away more than I ever collected

Eclectic vintage guitars and amplifiers other than motor stuff was my hobbies but now because eBay and Internet you can’t go to a music store or a swap meet and get anything for a good price!

I’m going to hang on to the few I have because I enjoy them even though at one time I had a dozen 60-70’s fender and Gibson guitars and a dozen 70s fender amplifiers before they sold them,

If I had them right now and posted them for sale right now I could’ve bought a brand new house!

Haha if your with me we can do anything I promise budddy!

Russian nesting dolls, been collecting them for about 10 years now

Tukes hat's belts kitsch. Chinese Japanese porcelions.

Carved scenes in frames w white cranes. Hawian shirts.

Juggling and martial Arts weapons. Vintage firearms pre 1864. Cast iron scales. Lamps...