Cacti.
Show off your collections of things.
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I don't think I've ever collected anything, apart from marbles when I was a child. Must be my nomadic roots.
I was about to say I didn't really collect anything, before realising the obvious.
Not the entire collection (more shoes & shirts and lots of other bits and pieces not shown) but enough for you to get the idea...
This makes me weep it's so beautiful!
I used to be very tidy when I was younger -- no doubt something I inherited from my parents. But as I've grown up I realised how inefficient it was, constantly having to move things to and from their little homes.
The main reason for tidiness is the convenience gained from knowing where everything is, but 99% of the time I remember where things are wherever I put them. So I realised that I didn't need to be as tidy as I was, and realised that convenience can also come from having frequently used things at hand.
A little chaos is good. We should try to find the balance point between what's truly helpful and what's an inconvenience.
Thanks! Thats honestly a word? Looks kind of strange somehow. Oh well, so I collected cacti then.
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Yeah, a LITTLE chaos. But my drawers etc. are most of the time in a state that does fit the word chaos, but not the word little anymore.
TerokNor
it show i never grew up, more like...
Is this little stream in your garden, or do you take your collection to the park to photograph it?
then the significant other moves everything that they can't throw out. :AAAAAHHHHH:
Sometimes I am amazed at the number of tapes I have that have not been discarded next up the sketch pad collections..
Don't get me started with my tarot card collection :P
I usually create about 1000 works per month on paper.. give or take 100's or more.
I was about to say I didn't really collect anything, before realising the obvious.Not the entire collection (more shoes & shirts and lots of other bits and pieces not shown) but enough for you to get the idea...
This makes me weep it's so beautiful!
Thanks, "Daisy"! You should see me wearing it.
I'm the opposite; chaos is not my natural state. So when I put something away, it automatically returns to the same place I got it from. I mean, it doesn't really take any longer to do so than putting it in the wrong place, so...
That's why the pocket squares in the bottom drawer in the last photo aren't neatly "squared off" and are at a slightly wonky angle.
I forgot about these:
They probably count as an (admittedly rather small) collection too. Details here, for the truly bored. The windows listed are the community's average, not necessarily my personal ones, for any oenophiles currently raising an eyebrow at one or two of them. There's also some stuff still currently en primeur and so not listed. I'm planning on leveraging a local connection for a mixed half-case of some rather nifty stuff soon too.
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I'm the opposite; chaos is not my natural state. So when I put something away, it automatically returns to the same place I got it from. I mean, it doesn't really take any longer to do so than putting it in the wrong place, so...
That's why the pocket squares in the bottom drawer in the last photo aren't neatly "squared off" and are at a slightly wonky angle.
I set out to organise things in a set and rational manner, but usually end up finding where things ought to go, where things "feel" right to me, and very quickly things end up more chaotically placed, but in a way in which I am perfectly at home yet may not make any sense to the next person. In many ways I see it as a physical manifestation of my thought patterns, developed and hard-wired over time.
I like my mess. It keeps things exciting at all times.
I actually love those 'pressed pennies' -it was a bit strange to experience it the first time; defacing currency! -just for a souvenir 
But in the USA it is tradition! -so fantastic!! (obviously my collection of those is rather small -but I cherish it!)
But in the USA it is tradition! -so fantastic!! (obviously my collection of those is rather small -but I cherish it!)
Not shown in the image is the blow-up bed on the bottom shelf! -You're ever so welcome!
I would LOVE to sit on your floor and go through these!!!
And let me add, I find it unbelievable that no one has said this yet:
"I collect spores, molds and fungus."
Seriously, people.
I collect those things, but never intentionally.
I wish! - Nah, just a print! -But isn't it nice though?trekkiedane, is that Hugo Pratt's real autograph on that Corto Maltese???
Along with my collection of dust-bunnies under the bed I have stored a collection of small plastic containers of exceptionally funny coloured fungi in my fridge!
My sis and Co. gave it to me as a birthday present a couple of years ago -it is the only art on any wall of mine!
Pratt, what can I say, he was one of the greatest!
Pratt, what can I say, he was one of the greatest!
My DVD's:
Probably the only meaningful collection I really have.
Probably the only meaningful collection I really have.
it show i never grew up, more like...
Is this little stream in your garden, or do you take your collection to the park to photograph it?
i took the boats to a park with a stream, yes.
Joe Devilfish, Cobra Night Landing and the SAS Force Silent Attack Kayak and the Boat Patrol...
ought to go back and do some with the Cobra Hydro-Sled and try to redo some with Stalker and his kayak...
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