do you like collecting stuff?

[beatlefreak]

Hmm, interesting that your flag only has 36 stars since there were 37 states at the time (Nebraska was admitted to the union as the 37th state on March 1, 1867, 9 years before the centennial)...

Cool flag though...

News didn't travel that fast back then...

[melibreits]

Wow... Interesting thread!

Mitch, your girlfriend could probably make a ton of money selling her creations at art or craft shows--her critters have lots of personality!

My whole family is into collecting stuff.... My kids have collected all kinds of things from Pokemon cards to legos to Nerf guns. We've got pails and pails of agates and other rocks in our basement, as well as lots of agates that my husband has polished over the years.... Fortunately my husband was able to take his hobby of coin collecting and turn it into a somewhat profitable business.

I try to limit my collecting to guitars, but I also seem to have amassed quite a collection of interesting jewelry.... I still have lots of little trinkets I wore as a kid in my jewelry box, and I love buying inexpensive jewelry from places we travel to.

[iamthebassman]

Hmm, interesting that your flag only has 36 stars since there were 37 states at the time (Nebraska was admitted to the union as the 37th state on March 1, 1867, 9 years before the centennial)...

Cool flag though...

If you're under the impression that back then the addition of stars to the flag was done under specific guidelines you'd be mistaken. The National Flag Code, which governs such things, was not established 'til 1923, and didn't become law 'til 1942.
There are MANY anomalies is vexillology.

[jingle_jangle]

Mitch, she should start selling on eBay. They are quirky and would have a fan base and good sales.

Are those made from belly button lint? That's a lotta lint!

Model car scales came from two places--automobile manufacturers and model train tradition.

Everything you never wante3d to know about model railroad scales:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_trans ... ing_scales

Model cars, including scale references:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_car

[octagon]

Mitch, she should start selling on eBay. They are quirky and would have a fan base and good sales.

Are those made from belly button lint? That's a lotta lint!

It's imported belly button lint .

[johnallg]

Mitch, she should start selling on eBay. They are quirky and would have a fan base and good sales.

Are those made from belly button lint? That's a lotta lint!

It's imported belly button lint .

High class stuff then!

[paologregorio]

Mitch, she should start selling on eBay. They are quirky and would have a fan base and good sales.

I don't know, personally, I think those belong in the "Creeps Me Out" thread... But that's just me...

It's starting to freak me out as well. . . .

[ricaddic]

Would you like to see my bus transfer collection ? .......................LOL

[jdogric12]

Would you like to see my bus transfer collection ? .......................LOL

yes!

[jps]

A friend of mine here in Cleveland collects safes!

Along one wall alone he has about 50,000 lbs. of them.

IIRC, he has about 50 safes all about his house; the door to the walk-in pantry in the kitchen is a very heavy duty bar safe door. The handle on his first floor toilet is a combination dial from a safe.

Most of the safes are pretty big, as you can imagine, plus there are some really cools ones from the US Civil War era.

[johnallg]

A friend of mine here in Cleveland collects safes!

Along one wall alone he has about 50,000 lbs. of them.

IIRC, he has about 50 safes all about his house; the door to the walk-in pantry in the kitchen is a very heavy duty bar safe door. The handle on his first floor toilet is a combination dial from a safe.

Most of the safes are pretty big, as you can imagine, plus there are some really cools ones from the US Civil War era.

I hope his house is built on a cement slab....

[jps]

He built a "safe room" on the back of his house that the reinforced concrete floor is 8" thick everywhere, but near the back wall of the house, where it is 24" thick.

[Kilaen]

Are you calling me a hoarder? Why, have you been peaking in my basement?