What does anyone collect

oh no Dag, just looked correction is it CARAT as in diamonds, you are awful but i like you, definately not the tipple well i can sure speak for myself here, at least i dont leave my scribbles all over my desk to be spotted by all :D :D

 

Well I am not so sure rosa, now I shall have to get my eye glass out and have a look at your pic! :D :D

 

well dag, you can get your eye glass and i will get my magnifying glass out.I have just poured my self a lovely glass of white wine the 1st by the way. :D :D mmmmm lovely just what the doc ordered. and in the morning i will feel like this.

 

:D Ah rosa, that would account for those empty glasses in your pic then! :D :D

 

where, going to have a look sure there isnt are you having me on dag

 

:D :D :D

 

of course you are getting me going arent you dag :D

 

Had you going there rosa! :D :D Nighty nighty.....

 

I've given up collecting .. takes up too much space. Gave all my antique wall plates to my best friend when I left Bucks. Used to collect teapots. Still have antique jugs. Still have lots of diamonds ... at least one ring for every finger and then the rest. Did work for a diamond mine for five years but have no diamonds from there ... only a raw piece of stone we've never cracked open ... could be worth millions as it was the highest price diamond mine (per carat) in the world!

Ruby glass, love it, don't have any any more. Have David Winter cottages I'm not interested in ... anyone else interested in them?

On the diamond side of things ... do you know that a carob bean is exactly the weight of a carat .. ie, the carat of a diamond?

 

Isn't that the origin of the carat?
I am in danger of becoming one of the people you see on TV programs like 'A Life of Grime'- I hate throwing things away in case they come in useful- comes of moving every 2-3 years in my childhood I think. I have a roll of microbore copper tube that has accompanied me for 40 years since my first husband installed some central heating.....
As a society we are addicted to 'things' and have far too many of them. :rolleyes:

 

As well as plants, I also collect stamps.
I specialise in pre-decimal stamps, and also any rugby related philately.
My daughter, Emily (21 months) already has a massive collection of cuddly toys, but we trying to stop that expanding too much as we'll soon run out of space for them all. :rolleyes:

 

I collect boxes - empty cardboard boxes!! I kid you not! I cannot throw away a sturdy box for anything. When I was a theatre manager down in Essex, I had a cupboard stuffed full of boxes of all shapes and sizes and folk from all over the hospital would come to me when they needed one to, say, send a piece of equipment away for repair!! I still do it but they're slightly smaller ones now!!

 

My friend buys empty boxes from Ikea, fancy ones and plain ones and all her shoe boxes she buys fancy wrapping paper and sits and covers them all, she keeps telling me i should do the same with all my shoe boxes, still havn,t got around to it

 

this is a few of my jugs i collect

 

this is a recent purchase from boundary mill