snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Feb 17, 2012 20:56:03 GMT -5
All my life I tried to collect everything.Except the dead president pics.Anyway,could barely walk in my shop so did a little sraightening up.Rocks are beginning to eat into the space I had everything else in.Thought I would show pics before this part gets messed up again.  My Grandpa's whiskey still is in this pic.He fired it up in the '20s.  Here is what he put his shine in.   Buckets of tumbling pieces  Finally put out my marbles where I could see them. Haven't lost em all yet   I probably showed my soda bottle collection before,about 300 different bottles  Any bring back memories? Thanks for looking, snuffy |
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Post by helens on Feb 17, 2012 21:00:52 GMT -5
WOW!!! At least you are a neat hoarder:)!!! I wish I had 1/2 the space I see there to put my hoarding in:). Also, anyone who likes marbles is a cool guy to me:).
But it's fun looking at your collections, and I totally understand why you keep it all! Have you thought about using the still to make essential plant oils?
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Thunder69
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Post by Thunder69 on Feb 17, 2012 21:13:55 GMT -5
Easiest way to figure it out is to flip a coin...If it comes back down you are a collector..... ;D
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Post by texaswoodie on Feb 17, 2012 21:15:47 GMT -5
Essential plant oils? No, but whiskey has crossed his mind. ;D Nice collection Snuff. I've collected all my life as well but every few years I go through all my stuff and get rid of about half. Remember last time you were here?  Curt |
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Feb 17, 2012 21:20:21 GMT -5
Yeah Curt I remember.Thats part of the reason I can barely walk in there.  snuffy |
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StoneCrazy
spending too much on rocks
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Post by StoneCrazy on Feb 17, 2012 21:27:33 GMT -5
I love those wiskey jugs.
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Post by beefjello on Feb 17, 2012 21:38:26 GMT -5
Neato! Fire up the still ;D
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Post by NatureNut on Feb 17, 2012 21:38:44 GMT -5
I think the marbles are cool.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 17, 2012 22:05:33 GMT -5
Man, very cool Snuffy! *L* Is that m grand daddy's still I see?*L* You really need to move now and then like I did. I sold off my bottle collection, my military rifle collection, my bayonets. Most my books,. most my insulators and a lot of my rocks. Sold the antique weapons last year. Otherwise I'd of been about as piled with goodies as you are *L*. Got to admit, I miss my junk but at least I can now move around the house and shop. Never got into marbles other than a few old ones I found while metal detecting or diggin bottles but those look cool in those bins *L*......Mel
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 17, 2012 22:23:53 GMT -5
Collector. You don't have the boxes of rocks stacked in your living room like I do. lol
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Post by deb193redux on Feb 17, 2012 22:31:04 GMT -5
maybe an obsessive collector. I've decided thats what I am.
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Don
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Post by Don on Feb 17, 2012 23:30:26 GMT -5
just remember, the only thing separating collectors from hoarders is organization.
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Post by susand24224 on Feb 18, 2012 0:17:18 GMT -5
I think the difference between hoarding and collecting is purely based upon income. If you have money, you are a collector; if you are broke you are a hoarder. I realized this dichotomy years ago when the neighbors stopped calling me wierd (when I was broke) and started calling me eccentric (when I wasn't quite as broke).
Either way you are enjoying yourself.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Feb 18, 2012 9:39:15 GMT -5
I love the bottles, very cool. My rocks looked like yours so I made a rock garden. Now my garage is much cleaner and I can see all of my rocks at once every time I walk past them, and I can brighten them up with a garden hose when I show them off to my friends.
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Post by Toad on Feb 18, 2012 10:33:28 GMT -5
Yep, much too neat to be a hoarder.
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Post by mrswtownsend on Feb 18, 2012 10:45:52 GMT -5
Looks like very cool collections to me! If you need someone to hold those rocks for you, you can send them to my house. (More than likely they will come back cut and polished.) |
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peachfront
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Post by peachfront on Feb 18, 2012 11:34:06 GMT -5
Wonderful collections. In my opinion, you are a collector as long as you can afford it, it's (reasonably) neat, and there is no health/safety hazard. I've met a few hoarders over the years, and you're not even close. One guy finally had 11 tons of newspaper removed from his house. I'm not kidding. They weighed it!
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 18, 2012 18:22:30 GMT -5
You don't have a 10 oz "Mountain Dew" bottle for sale do ya'  |
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Post by rockrookie on Feb 18, 2012 20:54:04 GMT -5
i like your Collection !!!
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NDK
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Post by NDK on Feb 18, 2012 23:27:15 GMT -5
Cool pix Snuffy.
I gotta agree - definitely not a hoarder...
Nate
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