Collecting things

[Gingerale]

At least they are small, you can put a lot in a box to store them. Do you keep the capsules too?

[Adol Christin]

Gonna sound ridiculous but I collect phrasebooks of various languages.

Edit: and foreign coins and banknotes.

[MissAutumn]

Adol Christin I can imagine that the phrasebooks would be handy when you travel.

I collect commemorative coins. For example I got hold of this 50p last night:

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I really hope I get this one, one day. (I don't buy coins I just hope I find them when I get change):

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I guess I also collect flowers as I've got into flower pressing recently and I keep my dried flowers in a scrapbook.

[Adol Christin]

I don't travel, that's why it's ridiculous. Lol. I just find them fun to read through.

Oooh! Those are so cool!

[MissAutumn]

Ah I see now haha.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Those are cool Autumn! I like to keep interesting coins I pick up...unfortunately they get stuck in a bag or jar together. I should take them out and look at them more often!

I also still like to collect stamps! Expecially when they are international stamps on letters!

[Adol Christin]

I keep my coins and banknotes in a locked box under my bed. Don't ever clean coins you find. Devalues it, interestingly.

If you get some penpal letter, how do you take the stamp off?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I just cut around it...I try to keep the postmark cancellation as well.

I didn't know that about the coins! <not that I clean mine>

[MissAutumn]

Lemon Cheesecake Mine are all in a small jewellery bag in a drawer. I have a lot of literary coins so I'm planning on putting them in a photo frame near my bookcases soon.

I bet you have a lot of cool looking stamps. Do you keep them in a scrap book?

Adol Christin I never knew about that. It's a good thing I never clean them. I'm not planning on selling them. They're too pretty.

In my country we're switching from cotton notes to the new plastic style. So when the new notes are due to come in I keep the best quality old note that I can find.

[Adol Christin]

Cleaning coins is a mistake people make but I've ben to coins shows when I was new to the coin hobby and was told that.

I'll have to show you guys my coins.

Lemon; oh cool! You must have lot.

MissAutumn; that'll be not only worth something, a good momento to remember fondly of younger days.

[MissAutumn]

Yes, please show us your coin collection.

Yes, they're good little momentos. I remember where I got them all - helps that I've mainly got them from pub quiz winnings. But some are from trips I've been on.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I have a friend that does pressed flower art for a living...now she does prints of her work as well...I used to press flowers and send them to her...but she grows her own plants and presses them now which makes her art even more worth treasuring!

[Adol Christin]

Cool. Is there special way to leaf press?

Pub quiz sounds fun

[Lemon Cheesecake]

You can just press flowers in a book but she does have an added process to preserve the color of the flower other wise the color fades or turns brown over time.

[Adol Christin]

Like, wax paper?