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I bottle up my emotions! Does that count?

Little boxes! My grandmother started my collection with her gift of a small gumball machine-shaped box with little colorful wooden balls inside for gumballs. I became obsessed with tiny versions of big things and haven't looked back! Now I have around 20 various-shaped tiny boxes (safely stored away in a much larger box).

Vinyl records and playing cards (Western, Hanafuda, and Tarot decks.) The vinyl collection started when I got my parent's old record player and started hitting thrift stores for bargains.

The card thing was sort of an accident; my wife (gf at the time) and I played a lot of Hwatu and cribbage and kept finding decks we liked.

I don’t have too major of a collection as far as quality, but I have been holding on to all my old Nintendo games and consoles since I first got them back with the OG game boy and NES, and I occasionally expand it when I find other old games I like when I have the money and can find them out in the wild. I have most of the consoles except for the more obscure old handhelds. (Still working on getting an original game boy advance to fill out the collection, but they are fairly expensive considering the costs of the later SP variant, which I have floating around.

Books, ephemera found in books, tree leaves, grass clippings, pencils.

Menus and matchbooks have been more challenging with changing times

I like to collect board games, trading cards, and vinyl records. I am very concerned about storage space so I try to collect only what I really enjoy or what I’ll realistically use.

Apparently guitars. One day I looked up and noticed I had like 12 of them.

I used to record a lot, so I always wanted one more guitar to "round out my available sounds". Now I don't really record anymore, and I just have a room full of guitars.

Souls. Also stamps.

Apparently I collect keyboards (specifically split ones: you have 17-20 keys for each hands), I just love building them it feels like playing with Lego but you get a working tool after you're done! And you can program it however you like too, for "I need to find the perfect setup" people like me, this is the cherry on top.

I also have a few manga and a growing collection of Lord of the Rings related books, I just think this is really neat.

Metal bottle caps. Like beer bottle caps. Started when Fallout 3 was out and never really stopped. I haven't counted in a long time but I'd say it's around 5000 or so now.

Different variants of Fight Club, mostly VHS, DVD and Blu-ray, not so much the book, although I do own a copy. I have one of the 500 Comi-Con 2014 Blu-rays they made. Have all the Fight Club 2 comics as well, even some rare cover variants.

Also Halo games and collectibles. All the legendary statues, limited edition versions, etc.

Animals, temperarily.

I just let two turtles go to make room for a newborn rattlesnake i found. Used to have a sugar glider i found in my backyard. I usually keep stuff a few week/months and alternate it out with new friends i find.

Im in the process of moving to a forest i bought so ill have more room for more tanks, and more time outdoors. I only keep as many as i can keep thriving instead of surviving, of course. But when i need to downsize i usually let stuff go in my forest.

It started when i found out my family and neighbors just shoot all the animals on sight so i started rehoming them

Used to collect glass bottles and different paying card decks (had a set shaped like mummies).

Eventually got rid of both. No where to display the playing cards, and cats meant bottles were a bad plan.

Might start the playing card one again

Used to collect beer bottles from my favorite brewery, Sam Adams. Had all 20.

But then something happened in beer and then there were just too many, so I threw them all away.