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Topic: What's your junk addiction?

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Started 4 years ago by Ki
Latest reply from DrCox

Tags: fishing lures, collection

Ki
Member
A friend of mine sent me these photos and it got me thinking. Most of us junkers are addicted to something. Call it our personal collection, if you will. I am addicted to advertising glassware and china. I can't seem to go anywhere without picking up a souvenir for my stash. This guy in Freemont Nebraska has a collection of 10,752 fishing lures displayed in his shop, Hounds Collectibles and More. Man oh man!

What is your junk addiction? Come on, be honest!
Peace,
Ki
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Posted 4 years ago #
Lila
Member

The very oddest addiction I have are folding bed trays. The legs fold under and the top tray can be set at different angles. Some have tole painted designs on them and some are plain. They look to be from the 40's or 50's. I can't pass them up. I have about 12 or 15 on hand and have given some away. I've redesigned some that may have been a very ugly color. I guess if I open a hospital or nursing home one day, I'm set.
Lila

Posted 4 years ago #
robolady
Member

Where do I start? Metal baskets, gears, clocks,door hardware, black/white signs, numbers, Vintage office equipment or supplies. I'm sure there are more that I can't think of. I don't think I have a collection quite to the extent of the fishing lure guy though.
Great question.
Margo

View my blog at:
http://robolady.blogspot.com/

Posted 4 years ago #
TESIE
Member

Picket fencing and old windows are my biggest weakness. I could be walking toward a flea market or yard sale and spot these immediately. Unfortunately I have missed out on other great buys because I get distracted so easily.

Posted 4 years ago #
eclecticdreams
Member

For me it's old suitcases. Also sometimes other storage things such as old boxes or toolboxes.
I also have a large collection of vintage embroidered pillowcases.

Posted 4 years ago #
csudderth
Member

Oh, I'm like Margo. I'm addicted to a lot of things. I like numbers, letters, and just about anything industrial. I'm also drawn to picture frames for some reason. I've got a loft full of them and old windows. One of these days I'm going to find a great use for all this stuff.
Christy

Posted 4 years ago #
Maggie
Member

For me it's old tools & old wood!

Posted 4 years ago #
gigi
Member

thinking of how my tastes have really changed over the yrs....only thing i'd look for is old jewelry (costume-real) now i barely give it a glance.

probably old furniture-old wooden architectural-old barn wood

Posted 4 years ago #
Meadowview Farm
Member

Oh...what a good question. Hmmm-if you walk around my house you will clearly see that I collect a lot! To narrow it down:
bird cages; painted children's chairs; toy brooms; enamelware pitchers; round graters; candy jars filled with buttons, vintage lace, prisms...; German Steiff mohair animals; tinware & wireworks; funeral flower baskets; oh my --- this list could go on & on.
In a nut shell, if it tugs at my heart - likely it is mine!
Kari

Posted 4 years ago #
luvmygarden
Member

I love too many things! But looking around my space I see there are some in particular: Pottery, especially mixing bowls and pie plates, catch my eye. Also enamelware/graniteware pots, pans, coffee pots & cups. Oh, and cast iron pieces like windvanes, plant hangers, coat hooks, etc.

Posted 4 years ago #
LuAnn
Member

Well what a question-caused for some thought. I too have may addictions--vintage plantars, wall pockets, vintage spice jars, old refrigerator containers to mention a few. My tastes have changed over the years-at time I bought about every wooden folding table I could find, chairs (extreme passion), linens. I could go on and on. Needless to say since I use what I buy my house runneth over. But boy is it fun. My friends are amazed at what I come up with when entertaining-always something different.

LuAnn

Posted 4 years ago #
Leveta
Member

I guess I really don't have any one thing...I'm so new at this that one certain thing doesn't stick out to me at the moment...

Posted 4 years ago #
Tinta
Member

I have so many things that I collect. I've noticed in the last few years I tend to be drawn to anything metal. Probably because my husband is a welder. I really like unique and odd things also. I've been posting weekly pictures of things that I have on my blog. If anyone has seen them you'll notice so far that I tend to keep the 'odd' things. Since I was young, i've always liked anything victorian. That's probably because my all time favorite movie was 'gone with the wind'.
Good question, Ki, it really got us thinking about our personalities.
Cindy (tinta)

Posted 4 years ago #
lovecrafting
Member

I have a huge passion for linens and anything with prisms. I have so many loose prisms I need to do projects with that it would take me a year to use them all. Love anything with rhinestones too. I must have a thing for the bling!

Posted 4 years ago #
Maggie
Member

Oh, I have more than two. LOL I also like linens, crochet, enamelware to name a few.

Posted 4 years ago #
Breznlin
Member

I seem to be drawn to anyhing green but I also love quilts, aprons, linens and enamelware.

Posted 4 years ago #
Meadowview Farm
Member

Oh Breznlin...I totally understand the "green" thing - my friends actually have a certain green they refer to as "Kari-green".
Kari

Posted 4 years ago #
thehillbillies
Member

Anything that can fill up the rooms in my house! I love furniture- which is difficult because furniture is big and there is only so much room for it! I love chippy, peeling paint on anything. Love windows, doors, round back chairs, enamelware is also a passion! Quilts... someday when I can afford to remodel my kitchen I'm collecting red kitchen items. What a hard question to narrow it down to one!

Posted 4 years ago #
nebrjunk456
Member
I also have many junk addictions. My newest addition are horses, as you can see from the pic. One of my other addictions is what I call my found object bulletin board. I love those small one of a kind things that use to be something special to someone else, keepsakes I guess.
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Posted 4 years ago #
nebrjunk456
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opps, here is the bulletin board.
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Posted 4 years ago #
Marge
Member
My answer is cream pitchers – pitchers that hold cream. I got started years ago with cute little cream pitchers. They are easy to find so to keep the addiction from getting out of hand, I was fussy about the shape. I love fat little round bellies on a pitcher. Eventually, I eliminated all except the ones that are cream colored. Cream cream pitchers – cream colored pitchers that hold cream. Then I added larger sized pitchers to my habit. So now my answer is back to cream pitchers – cream colored pitchers. I also gravitate towards old kitchen utensils, sewing notions and baby shoes. I must say though, these things are NOT junk!
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Posted 4 years ago #
Leveta
Member

nebrjunk how did you make your window bulletinboard?

Posted 4 years ago #
petals
Member

My junk addition is anything rusty.... has to be the old rust.. not the new bright orange rust (fake rust as I call it), has to be the old rust that the object earned the hard way, over time. If its rusty, I gotta have it! My husband thinks I'm nuts! I love old rusty farm machinery, gears, troughs, you name I love it love it love it if its rusty! I also have a "thing" for carriers... tool boxes, berry crates, totes. Love those too! Now if i could just find an old rusty carrier.. I'd be in heaven!

Posted 4 years ago #
nebrjunk456
Member

I just took a six pane window and removed the glass, then I went to Menards. I went to the bulletin board department. There they have bulletin board you can buy that can be cut to size. I cut six pieces to fit each pane. I then put some glue on the inside of the frame and pressed each piece of bulletin board into each pane. I drilled a hole at the top of the frame on each side, ran heavy rusty wire through each hole to hang it with. That's it.

Posted 4 years ago #
csudderth
Member

Love all the good stuff you have on the bulletin board.
Christy

Posted 4 years ago #
rebeljunker
Member

What do I collect? I'm a junker of all "junk", and a master of none. I just love anything rusty, any metal object that can be painted white and distressed, plates, frames, china, doorknobs, old paint peeling wood, anything I can buy for a cheap or is free. Well you get the picture!! Now I have to find a place for it all. One luck my hubby built a big storage room in the shop!

Posted 4 years ago #
AnnOfGreenoak
Member

love the bulliten board.....
my addiction is the thrill of a pile....i love buying a big pile of something just to go thru it....give me a big box of something interesting, like buttons, jewelry,postcards, and im a happy camper....ive bid on lots without even knowing what was there...the thrill of the sort...
at home many of my collections are around what the people and especially girls in the 1870s made by hand....i lke llittle wood shelves, doll quilts,small folkart large folkart little purses autograph books... and so much more.......
ann
www.magpiecotage.blogspot.com

Posted 4 years ago #
SecondHandRosie
Member

I'm another one who flies by my shirt tail.....I can always take home something that's rusty or weathered or black or retro looking! LOL Also I love things that can be used as something else.

I have about 250 pieces of Fireking Jadite that I dearly love. Other than that, I have several pieces of 50's type furniture. Not that it goes with the above, but I also love organic things - I've decorated with rocks and wood and tumbleweeds, etc.

Friend of mine "hit" the local salvage yard occasionally and it's a blast. The guys out there laugh at us. Don't think anybody else BUYS out there! LOL

Posted 4 years ago #
LuAnn
Member

Second hand rosie--250 pieces of jadite!!! Wow-a woman after my own heart. JH and I love to collect jadite. The color goes great anywhere through out my house. I have a few but not this many!! Good job!!

LuAnn

Posted 4 years ago #
SecondHandRosie
Member

Thanks, LuAnn! I started out about 15 years ago with one "Cheaters" coffee mug that cost me fifty cents at a garage sale. My DH said that after that it was more addictive than cocaine! LOL

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this post!

Posted 4 years ago #
redneckChic
Member
I can't believe that I am about to admit to this....but I ADORE bowling bags!!! They are SO fun to have all lined up on my shelf in my living room! I think my fascination with them lies in the fact that they have great, simple lines!!! OH! And each one on my shelves stores something or another...sparkly things, dishes, letter and numbers of all shapes and sizes seem to gravitate towards my house - I just don't understand that! ha-ha!
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Posted 4 years ago #
Meadowview Farm
Member

redneckChic - love that you collect bowling bags -- and good for you to stand tall and say you do! That is a new one - but what a fab collection - and storage too!
Kari

Posted 4 years ago #
lovecrafting
Member

I agree with annofgreenoak. A pile of anything intersting will hold my attention for hours.

Posted 4 years ago #
Jaybird
Member

Ummmmmmmm can I name more than one?????? My FAVORITE is old silver...table and holloware. Then it would have to be pitchers, which would run a REALLY close second. There are more, but I won't bore you!
RNC Bowling ball BAGS????? You are way too cute! XXOO

Posted 4 years ago #
jennifer
Member

I am a collector of quite a lot. I guess my oddest collection is flower frogs...the old spiky ones, and cage ones. You can see all of my collections here: http://randomvintagefinds.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-i-love-and-collect.html

Jennifer
http://randomvintagefinds.blogspot.com

Posted 4 years ago #
Meadowview Farm
Member
Oh Jennifer...I can relate - I have a drawer of flower frogs -- I'm especially partial to the smaller rusty ones. I love to just grab one to hold a postcard. If you look in the picture, on the shelf above the German Steiff mohair frogs (how adorable are they?) you will see a flower frog hard at work holding a floral advertising card.
Kari
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Posted 4 years ago #
redneckChic
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Kari - I love your funnel...and your frogs...and everything on your shelves!!! I have my flower frogs holding paint samples in my living room right now. LOL I have about 6 of them lined up so I can choose my new paint color! They are great - I move them around for various things all of the time! :-)

Posted 4 years ago #
Breznlin
Member

Kari - I love your display but I also love the color of the wall behind it - any idea what brand and color? Thanks.

Posted 4 years ago #
Meadowview Farm
Member

redneckChick - how smart are you...flower frogs holding paint samples!!

Brezlin - I indeed know the paint color -- when we restored the farm in 2006 I logged in a notebook every paint sample, wallpaper piece etc. I failed to do this for our last home and suffered the consequences. I also decided with this house that all the white - inside and out would be the same color. But, I digress --- the paint color is Martha Stewart: Green Tea. I like it, but it does tend to look pastel if you don't anchor it with some darker pieces. I have this color in my kitchen and living room - using a dark green & brown to anchor it in the living room and a deep almost mohogany wood in the kitchen.

P.S. - the picture is my ode to "St. Patrick's Day" -- I tend to decorate more by color then by holidayish pieces.

Kari

Posted 4 years ago #
gigi
Member

ok ladies...i will admit that until about a few months ago...i had no idea what a flower frog was...i had seen them at flea markets, etc...but didn't realize they had a particular name! :) didn't realize there were so many different styles over the ages tho! thanks for sharing!

Posted 4 years ago #
chiccottagejunk
Member

For a quick post here, I'll admit that I love kitchen utensils. That's usually where I go first in my favorite Goodwill and thrift stores. I buy stuff I'll never use or display, thinking that I might get a brainstorm someday on what to do with the pieces. Someday they'll become a part to some junk ensemble I decide to put together. I have about 15 vintage/antique hand potato mashers- the kind that stand up on their own. I've made some into bud vases by attaching antique glass bottles to them with wire and adorning them with beads and wire. Mashers are what I have the MOST of right now.

Posted 4 years ago #
Maggie
Member

I like kitchen utensils too, especially ladles!

Posted 4 years ago #
adina
Member

My current weakness is still glass insulators and glass dishes for totems because I can still find them inexpensively. I love hunting for old gears and springs but haven't found too many here that I can afford, so I've passed on a few. I also really like old coal stoves....pretty much, it it's heavy and a metal of some kind, I like it...LOL. Also, if I can mosaic it, it's mine too....LOL.

Dottie
http://gardensandcrafts.blogspot.com/

Posted 4 years ago #
redneckChic
Member

chiccottagejunk - i too have an affinity to tater mashers!!! LOL Aren't they fun?! I have been making mine into recipe holders (old clothes pin w/a vintage button or earring) but I love your bottle idea!!!

Kari - holidays are fun to decorate for! My dining room chandelier is a revolving holiday calender...I am on the hunt for shamrocks right now!

:-)

Posted 4 years ago #
greenseester
Member

Little chairs! Not rocking chairs... wooden chairs with or without rush seating. I really like little highchairs! The older the better!

Posted 4 years ago #
greenseester
Member

Little chairs! Not rocking chairs... wooden chairs with or without rush seating. I really like little highchairs! The older the better!

Posted 4 years ago #
paintwife
Member
I have soo many! Rusty stuff always attracts my eye. I love old scales of any kind. But I can't seem to pass up tables. Those little side or occasional tables get me every time. Here are just two of the ones I picked up last fall.
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whatscookninjunk
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Paintwife,
I love the angel one!!
I like everyone else love alot of different items! But I would have to say that my collections would have to be bed headboards and footboards for one, second Doors, third TRUNKS of any kind!! From there... well, it could be anything, and usually is!! But most of it... is just the fun of finding whatever it may be!! I am addicted to the FIND!!
Debi xo
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Posted 4 years ago #
KudzuKween
Member

hmm, too many. I'll start with small, old wooden toys, especially the German ones. I still have the tiny little working Singer sewing machine I played with as a teensy girl, you had to turn the crank handle to make it sew, it wasn't electric. I haven't stopped sewing since! old glass medicine bottles,ink wells, and salt cellars; anything lavender glass; wooden rolling pins and sausage stuffers; pearls, as in ear clips or necklaces; old toys as in Western! lol,children's cowboy boots and hats and cap pistols,sling shots,coon skin caps, and I buy blue spatter metal cook ware and dinner ware, to go with the cowboy stuff,in my "new" laundry room one day, I also have an old wooden ladder to suspend from the ceiling to store the blue spatterware; cast iron cookware already seasoned, and I use it; almost anything to do with the Mississippi Gulf Coast, like paintings of the ocean, boats, ships, lighthouses,mansions,arrowheads,driftwood,petrified wood; crocks and old crock beer bottles;.........
!!!!!!!!!!OHMYGOD-I TURNED INTO MY MOTHER!!!!!!no,no, I'm SURE I'm not OCD! I have PLANS for MY treasures! I don't stuff things under the beds or....oh,man; yeah, I do! That third bedroom! It's crammed full of my TREASURES....
At this point I think I'd be better off buying a new house with five bedrooms and a three car garage with a commercial sized storage building and a barn *blush*
Kudzu

Posted 4 years ago #
Meadowview Farm
Member

Oh Kudzu...too cute! It's O.K. -- we understand!!
Kari

Posted 4 years ago #
Dianne
Member

Spindles, wooden chairs, shutters, windows, farm tables. They must be old and crackled though. Otherwise they have no character.

Posted 4 years ago #
Leveta
Member

You know I didn't think I had any, but I guess windows would be a strong first...

Posted 4 years ago #
Maggie
Member

KudzuKween, I also love blue speckled enamelware & I have a lot of it. I know that I have turned into my Mother, but that's not a bad thing!

Posted 4 years ago #
DIYlicious
Member

Anything that was free (found, inherited, gifted)... my friends all know how much I enjoy junk ;)

Posted 3 years ago #
magark
Member

Welcome aboard DIYlicious! Chime in anytime and post pictures of other projects too. Jan

Posted 3 years ago #
The Farmers Wife
Member

I see that this topic was started awhile back, but how fun to read through everybody's faves.

Lately, it has been anything metal for me!! I also love Coca-Cola stuff and Hershey's chocolate stuff -- although these are both pretty pricey items, so I do not have many!

Love vintage kitchen items, too!

Posted 3 years ago #
HiddenTimberPrimitives
Member

Things I can't pass up are baby shoes, little chairs, jars, old crates, crocks, and enamel ware. Farmers Wife I'm with you on the Hershey's thing. That is what my kitchen is done in as I am most definately a chocolaholic! It is expensive so everyone, especially my mother-n-law, keeps an eye out for unique items. Oh, and my most favorite is old cupboards. There is no storage in this old house so my philosophy is you can never have too many...LOL!

Posted 3 years ago #
dhmjr
Member

I'll throw in with the old rusted metal crowd. Am also a fan of anything with a western/country theme. I like old wood too, which I'm using quite a lot of in my remodel. I'm on a vintage western movie poster kick now with Roy, Gene, and Hopalong etc.

Posted 3 years ago #
mcnaughton
Member

I'm surprised I didn't already chime in; hate to pass up an opportunity to talk! I'm a sucker for letter and number items: Scrabble tiles, flash cards, vintage wooden letters, etc. I practically salivated when I found a huge box of elementary school word flash cards. I was thinking about all the ways I would use the cards. Then I looked on Ebay and saw what they sell for (up to $212 for a set) and decided I could be bought off. I love seeing what people do with printed letters and signs.

Posted 3 years ago #
SecondHandRosie
Member

LOL Attcha, Mcnaughton! I taught school 28 years and when I think about how many old, old sets of flash cards were thrown away - I just get sick! If I had just used my brain and realized that there was gonna be a demand for them and a life after teaching! LOL

Posted 3 years ago #
fortheloveofprim
Member

Mine has to be bowls, mixing bowls,wooden bowls, it doesn't matter I have a thing for bowls!!! I also have a thing for suitcases,buttons,old lace,old tablecloths really just about anything thats old,,,

Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

I love reading these old posts!!!
I love to find old tins - the advertising kind. I have them all over my kitchen. (hubby just rolls his eyes when I buy more) I try to sneak new ones in there so he won't notice... I love any kind of fabric, buttons, lots of sewing stuff. I have a ton of cool old sewing machines and parts which I love to tinker. I am a sucker for old sewing or craft books and patterns. Old game parts, silverware, lanterns, pewter, wooden bowls. I have a collection of coffee pots to make something out of. I like to wear rayon blouses as long as they say Liz somewhere on them... My hubby says I collect shoes... Well, a woman has to have the right shoes for the right occasion. I figure I have to live another 50 years to do everything I have projects for...

Posted 3 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

My favorite quote "When you think about it, the Wizard of Oz is really about two women fighting over a pair of shoes." A women has to have the right shoes you know. Mine are my Timberland workboots in the winter, sneakers and flip flops in the summer, of course I do love the occasional 3 inch heel. :) Diane

Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

CROCS!!!!! too

Posted 3 years ago #
Breznlin
Member

Love my CROCS!!! They are way more comfy than any pair of sneakers I have ever owned....

Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

There is a Croc outlet in Edenburg, Indiana - so cheap there!

Posted 3 years ago #
LuAnn
Member

I understand there's a Croc's outlet coming to Auburn Hills, MI (Great Lakes Crossing) too.

Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

I got some last week, buy one get one half off. I got two pair for $25 including tax! Made my day. These have ties and look ok to wear to work!!! comfy too. They have all kinds of boots there too. High heels. There is a mark down bin - mom got a pair of silver Crocs - look sort of Star Trek or something... She loves them... Roll eyes - She's 84...

Posted 3 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

Copperhead, don't you just love our mothers. Mine just turned 85 and doesn't have a fashionable bone in her body. And she could care less about possesions. Don't tell her you like something or you will end up with it. And she still remembers EVERYTHING all 11 of us ever did! She'll outlive all of us. :) Diane

Posted 3 years ago #
SecondHandRosie
Member

Diane, two things that we have in common - a shared love of shoes and fiesty 85 year old moms! LOL

Posted 3 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

And just the fact that we both found Junk Revolution which means we must LOVE junk! :)

Posted 3 years ago #
momlvcntrt
Member

i love anything that cayches my eye.i like keys,furniture.the more roughed up the better

Posted 3 years ago #
Lorene
Member

If I had to pick just one item it would be marbles! Not the mass produced cat's eyes but the solid colored ones. I have decorative jars full!

Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

Ha Ha - lost all mine years ago...

Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

Ha Ha - lost all mine years ago...

Posted 3 years ago #
Leveta
Member

LOL...

Posted 3 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

I made my husband magnets with marbles attached to them so in case he lost his at work he would have more and know where to find them. :)

Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

What glue did you use???

Posted 3 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

Hi Copperhead, I used gorila glue, I think, which probably wasn't the best because some did come apart. Soooooo ladies, what glue works on glass and mangets? Things that make you go hmmmmmmm. Diane

Posted 3 years ago #
JunkLover
Member

I was going to try gorilla glue... I am glad you posted before I bought some... I don't know either... Anybody??

Posted 3 years ago #
Lorene
Member

I use E6000 for just about everything. I've glued pretty rocks and dice to magnets and it worked fine.

Posted 3 years ago #
JunkLover
Member

Thanks Lorene, I have a tube of that but have not tried it yet...

Nora
http://treasuresrenewed.blogspot.com/

Posted 3 years ago #
huggybear38
Member

I love finding things on and at auctions.. love sewing and fabrics.. love to make stuff for my garden.. and for the kids.. I love giving to the hospitals for the babies.. so Iam always looking for good fabric buys.. there is a great auction on line in March in Laura, Ohio whew.. my son better keep me locked up or I would be there in a minute.. lots of sewing machines and sergers and get this.... knitting machines.. yarns, threads.. the whole works.. whew.. I am sweating just thinking about how I could sneak to the auction and then hide what ever I buy.. LOL lordy.. there would be a murder in my city if I did.. LOL

Posted 3 years ago #
huggybear38
Member

Oh by the way did I mention lots of old old old junk at this auction too.. so if anyone is close to Laura, Ohio March the 13th go to Auctionzip.com and inter auctioneer code 4502

Posted 3 years ago #
Prior
Member
I like old maps... here are a couple I have. Most of my collections aren't huge. Nothing like those fishing lures. Wow. Lezlee
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Posted 3 years ago #
JunkLover
Member

Prior- I love the old maps.... Very cool....

JunkLover (Nora)
http://treasuresrenewed.blogspot.com/

Posted 3 years ago #
Prior
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I also like game boards, my collections aren't all that original! Lezlee
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Posted 3 years ago #
Prior
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I have a few more... They are in my guest room.
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Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

I like old advertising 'tins' and old 'tin' game boards - maybe cause they are shiny...

Posted 3 years ago #
JunkLover
Member

Too many likes to list. We need to narrow it down by what we "Don't like", but I am not sure I would have anthing for that category..

I love jewelry, books, games, dishes, hardware, curbside chairs, sewing machines, gloves, beads, watering cans, ladders, purses, tea pots, fabric, baskets and so on and so on....

Keep On Junking
Nora

Posted 3 years ago #
copperhead
Member

Yes! ANYTHING on the curb, Craig's list free, free cycle!!!

Posted 3 years ago #
SecondHandRosie
Member

Dianeinthevalley, I lost my feisty mom in December after she turned 86 in October. I miss her dearly and I sure hope that your mom is still going strong!!

I've developed an attraction toward seatless chairs since this post came by the first time! LOL It was fun reading it all over again.

Posted 2 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

Rosie, Sorry about your loss. Yes, my Mom is still going, turned 86 Feb. 8. She is a little slow getting around but her mind is as sharp as a tack. The old posts are fun to read. I keep going to the garden section. Wishing for spring I guess.

Posted 2 years ago #
Leveta
Member

So sorry Rose to hear this...We live with my mom who is fixing to turn 80 in sept. She has lung problems but other wise healthy...

Posted 2 years ago #
dmvtatter
Member

glass paperweights, alabaster eggs, hand painted wooden eggs...well, darn near anything egg shaped and unique, BOOKS!, cooking gadgets, weave-it type looms, old knitting needles and pattern books...and on and on and on.

Posted 2 years ago #
copperhead
Member

DH just sort of shrugs and says what ever... but he did go with me to get her... and he did carry her around... I seem to take in sewing machines in ANY condition... Thursday night got a big old industrial Singer 241 WWII vintage with no chrome from Craig's List - FREE... The next task is to make her sing again. Her gears & wheels are all gummy because she has set far too long without being used. I believe I should name her. She is very plain and simple but all stuck up. She has a very beautiful table and her sweet motor purrs. I just know we are going to be best of friends one of these days. I am going to have to really try to sell some of the other machines I have lurking around....

Posted 2 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

I vote Norma, after Norma Shearer. If you've never seen the original version of THE WOMEN rent it sometime. Joan Crawford, Rosiland Russel and Norma Shearer. 1939, no men in the entire movie. One of my favorites.

Posted 2 years ago #
momlvcntrt
Member

i must say mine is hard rusty strong things sofentened up like an old rusty horseshoe with lace on it somewhere.things like that and my favorite is bed springs.man gotta love those bed springs.

Posted 2 years ago #
momlvcntrt
Member

oh did i also mention,keys,junk jewerly.vintage lables small glass bottles,locks,buttons,rusty baskets,old windows,tea dyed fabric,punched tin lanterns,picture frames,.that is just a few of the things.lol lol lol lol lol lol

Posted 2 years ago #
SecondHandRosie
Member

Diane, I was born on your mom's birthday! LOL

Lately I have almost TOO many addictions to name!

I really like anything weathered, rusty, industrial, and modern looking! LOL That about covers the spectrum, doesn't it!? LOL

Posted 2 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

Rosie, So you must be a very sweet but "Fiesty" lady also!

Posted 2 years ago #
layniek
Member

Well, let's see, so many things: vintage coca cola anything, dishes, glassware, martini glasses especially, windows and shutters, hair accessories, necklaces, metal and wood signs, linens, and architectural pieces.

Posted 2 years ago #
copperhead
Member

Of late, I've been collecting pictures of sewing. So far I found an exquisite watercolor at GW lb of an oriental lady sewing. (I almost felt like I stole that one on the other hand maybe it was just meant for me to find it.) I also have a Dr Suess pic of Who sews Sue's clothes, an old Singer ad with a lady at her treadle and a Norman Rockwell of a man sewing. These are on my sewing room walls. I have old sewing notions, an old home Ec book to do something with too. I think I'm going to glue some old pattern envelopes to the back of a really worn out mirror full length edges - might have to help the mirror with some oven cleaner to get the pics to show through more.

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Blossom
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Victorian salvage!
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Posted 2 years ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

Ok Greta, that commandment that says "Thou shall not covet"? I'm having a hard looking at your pictures and thnking "that would look really nice in my house".

Posted 2 years ago #
Blossom
Member

Diane-

I know the commandment well...in theory. I might have a slight problem when it comes to putting it into practice! :o

Posted 2 years ago #
Dear Helen Hartman
Member

As many have posted here, I am an eclectic collector. Lots of stuff, lots of styles but what I Have the most of is vintage tablecloths. Rarely buy one anymore, at around 200 that's enough!! But I can't bear to get rid of more than a few either, so....

Posted 2 years ago #
FleaMarketLeigh
Member

milk glass, milk glass, white dog figurines, quail statues... odd, huh? L:)

Posted 2 years ago #
Blossom
Member
FleaMarketLeigh--

It seems that owls, in the form of jewelry and collectibles, are very popular right now.

I like the fact that you collect quails. I love Bob Whites and their sweet call.

I did a Google "image" search on quails and can see exactly why you collect them. They are adorable.

Here is a pair I found!

Welcome to the site,

Greta
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Posted 2 years ago #
ladydianab
Member

For years I had been collecting the plastic M&M guys. My husband would find them and bring them home. The collection actually got quite big but then I discovered re-selling. I am delaying on actually finding a job (and I really need one but don't want to work for anyone; I want to be my own boss) so when I discovered that the M&Ms sold quite well at my antique booth they all went there. But.. I still have the ceramic little village houses (I don't know how else to describe them) but now I am starting to look at them and see possible dollar signs. In order to try to make money I look at anything not nailed down all while wondering if I could make some money selling it.

Diana

Posted 2 years ago #
Betsyofsisterstreasures
Member

Ladydianab, you would have loved to have been at the
GW I was at today because someone must have donated their collection of M&M character dispensers. I happened to get 3 of them and noticed a few more in other peoples carts. I've sold all that I've put in my booth so far, although it does go against my new self imposed new rule of sticking to a theme with my purchases for my booth! lol... can anyone say.... "Obsessive compulsive"??? ha! I guess I'm going to have to admit my "addiction" if I can onlly find time between compulsively obtaining new treasures!!.. so SAD!!! ;)

Posted 2 years ago #
sjenkins001
Member
I am in love with anything retro, but recently I have been finding vintage pepsi crates. I paid $6 for 2 of them recently. Not sure what I want to do with them just yet.
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Posted 2 years ago #
momlvcntrt
Member

i would put small trrra cotta pota and make and herb box

Posted 2 years ago #
vicxstar
Member

Vintage textiles--I love them all, old, shabby quilts, baby clothes--any old clothes--scarves, pillows, framed needlework, stuff like that.

My other weakness is old cosmetics jars, makeup, shampoo, compacts, any dresser items, oh yeah!

Posted 2 years ago #
TESIE
Member

You all are talking about looking around to decide what you collect the most of....well I noticed I have more cat hair than anything else. I can say I love my cats but can't say I love collecting the cat hair. LOL

Posted 2 years ago #
copperhead
Member

vicxstar
I've had a couple of white muslin baby dresses for years - I enlarged my patterns and duplicated one for my GDs - they loved them. And recently, I found an old nylon dress - looks like never worn. (My GD definitely WON'T wear it though. She looked and just shuttered at the see through the fabric part) It reminds me of a dress I wore back in the 1950s - mine was pink - very warm and prickly the in summer... not so warm in winter... Maybe I just was desperate for a piece of my child hood... I got it at Goodwill where they weigh everything so probably paid next to nothing. I thought it might make a cute thing to hang on my cute little vintage plastic hanger in a window somewhere in the next house...

Posted 2 years ago #
hopeandjoyhome
Member

I looove vintage feedsacks..the printed floral kind, buttons, McCoy pottery esp vases and planters in white, green, aqua, yellow..and ok..I have a couple pink too! I like jadeite and 40's 50's floral tablecloths. As far as junk collectibles, I am a metal head..serious weakness for hardware pieces parts and random cool metal bits. I also like architectural salvage pieces but they must be cheap..because I am! I like things that can be reused/remade.

Posted 2 years ago #
hopeandjoyhome
Member

This is what I was talking about when I said feedsack fabric! These are some favs I found last summer.

Posted 2 years ago #
hopeandjoyhome
Member

Oops!! Dang it! Won't open my file..oh well..I am a techno idiot!

Posted 2 years ago #
Maggie
Member

http://junkrevolution.com/community/topic.php?id=1414
Here's a tutorial for posting pics...HTH

Posted 2 years ago #
KelliDD
Member

I'm new and thought I would get in on the fun. I collect vintage cameras, vintage radios, and Chinese Checker boards. I love spending Saturdays in flea markets, at yard sales, and estate sales where I find all kinds of vintage canning items. I recently began a collection of old Ball canning jars that I've filled with game pieces collected when I bought the game boards.........let nothing go to waste!

Posted 2 years ago #
Maggie
Member

Welcome Kelli!!

Posted 2 years ago #
blackantsnpeonys
Member

OLD Linens, mirrors, glass baskets, lamps and unusual chairs. Anything to add warmth to my home. Any item that brings me good vibes and a pleasant memory.

Posted 1 year ago #
antiquingarky
Member

Well, I would have to say chairs and benches to start off. Then to tables and beds. You know, if we would all get together and bring a little of what we love we could have a HECK of a sell!! I offer the seating.

Posted 1 year ago #
copperhead
Member

I love old sewing machines - junk or working

Posted 1 year ago #
AnnOfGreenoak
Member

my new thrill is PINTEREST.... its so fun and giving me more ideas than i could ever get around to......making a big neat collection in picture form....
www.greenoakantiques.com

Posted 1 year ago #
dianeinthevalley
Member

I'm with Anne, Pinterest is addicting. I love all the ideas, and when you log in and the pinners you follow have pinned new stuff and of course it's stuff I want to repin and so the addiction goes. At least it doesn't cost anything!

Posted 1 year ago #
LuAnn
Member

One of my favorite places--pinterest. A friend and I meet one afternoon each week to craft and most of our ideas come from there. Valentine's is the next holiday so let the pinning and crafting begin.

LuAnn

Posted 1 year ago #
DrCox
Member

Bikes and old sporting goods. My bike collection is up to 7 now. I like old skiis, skates, snow shoes. I want a pair of old key roller skates.

Laurie

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