Collections

I started thinking about the things I collect

after finding the blog A Collection a Day.

I have collections.  You probably do, too.

Sometimes we purposefully collect . . . 

sometimes we purposefully "uncollect"

(see the Great Santa Giveaway on December 15th of 2009),
and sometimes we are taken by surprise

that we have been unconsciously collecting.

I collect sets of 5 dice.

Playing Yahtzee was fun and a way to make learning enjoyable.

Probability, patterns, quick decision making.

It was easier if all players had their own dice.

I have dozens of sets and it's gotten difficult to find something different.

I still look.

I also collect blank books,

although I didn't realize I was actually collecting

until Anne pointed out that I love blank books,

but rarely actually write in them.

She told me I was collecting them.

She was right.

The feel, the colors, lines or graph or nothing.

They pick me, I think.

Nail polish - I ruthlessly keep these down to just a dozen or so;

they do go bad after a while.

My hands-down favorite:  Rimmel's Zeitgeist.

It looks bronzey-gold until you see it at an angle

and then it's a greenish-gold.  Wonderful effect.

Birds seem to be calling to me (no pun intended).

I only have a few.

I really do resist.

I started collecting tea cups 40 years ago.

I've stopped collecting,

but still have my original 15 and a few others.

Colored pens and pencils and markers - there is a gene for this.

I have it.

My sisters both have it.

My daughter has it.

All the items in my collections have a very low dollar value,

but they provide me with pleasure.

They make me smile.

And speaking of smiling,

I guess I also collect faces.  I have for years.

Family and friends send them to me (see sidebar Label "Faces").
[2012 Update - now combined into Label "Everyday Life"]

What do you collect?