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Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :
 
Over on the Prayers of the Faithful, thread people request prayers using their ship names. I keep a prayer list in a small book that I use while saying the daily office. Should someone find my small book they would see such things as Bill for healing, and Helen for safe travels, but they would also run across some rather strange names such as Graven Image for support as she looks for a job. Now I know that our dear Lord has this all sorted out but I wonder what someone else might think. Do any of you have anything that makes perfect since to you, but would prove a puzzlement to others?
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
Right now, I have multiple five gallon buckets filled with bottle caps. I'm saving them for a special project but if you didn't know that, you might just think I have some serious issues. I also have several coffee cans filled with the little tabs from the tops of soda/beer cans. Those I save for someone else, but again it still looks strange.
 

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Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
A collection of fluff on one of our bookshelves - it's cat fluff from our British shorthair. When she moults, boy does she moult, and I keep meaning to try and felt the fluff into something decorative.
 

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Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
I often think that if I ever get raided by the police, they'll take one look at my bookshelves and DVD collection, lock me up and throw away the key.

I also have little bundles of old nylon guitar strings. They look really useful, but are probably not. I've just seen some tiny animal sculptures made from thin wire, and might have a try at making those.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
theater props. There's a rubber chicken in my kitchen. assorted fake weaponry mixed in with my collection of real weaponry. a rubber skull (life sized) on a shelf. a bright pink dog collar hanging above my desk with a dog toy just beneath it (that the dogs do NOT get to play with, those are mine!). a vase with a false bottom. a bunch of bottles with odd potions labeled on them. two giant bins of costumes and a few masks. a whole wall of costume hats - witch, tricorn, fez, russian beaver hat, sombrero, much much more...

add all that clutter to my book problem, camel statues, and globes hanging from the ceiling, and it might look a little odd to the wrong people.
 

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Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 
I remember when we were cleaning out my late great-aunt's house. People kept going, "Why was she keeping this???" I'd bet much of it just wasn't sorted through/thrown away yet.

I think of that often - what people would think going through my stuff if I died (yeah, I'm morbid like that), but it's not enough to make me keep my place neat & organized.

Right now, someone would find a huge box in my apartment full of electronics recycling I keep not managing to get hauled away. Since some of that waste is disassembled (2 computers in particular - I wanted to remove the hard drives), it would probably strike someone as something I had intentionally saved or collected. For some art project? For scrap metals? (Then why did she keep the plastic casing?...)
 

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Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 

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Originally posted by comet:
theater props. There's a rubber chicken in my kitchen... a rubber skull (life sized) on a shelf.
... it might look a little odd to the wrong people.

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Everyone has skeletons don't they? I have a number of them, including a paper skull, all that's left from a life-size paper skellie (Bob, since you ask). When leaving university my Dad brought me home with my gear in the car; I had to sit with the full skeleton on my knee praying not to get stopped on the way.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
In college I had a lawn sprinkler on my wall. I suppose it's around somewhere...
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
Everyone has skeletons don't they?

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A baboon skull and a monkey skull ... inherited when my older brother left home for university, I took over his room and the skulls came with it.



 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
I have a 43-year-old Plymouth convertible on my back patio; it has been there for about 25 years. I taught my wife how to drive in it on our honeymoon. I bought it in 1977. It is light-years too expensive to restore it, so I think I'll advertise it as a parts car in January and try to get rid of it along with some unused building materials.
 

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Posted by Eigon (# 4917) on :
 
I have a few animal skulls (but then, I was once an archaeologist). I also have a random selection of human bones at the top of my wardrobe - I think they were once part of a skeleton for an anatomy class, but I'd rather like to dispose of them, and I can't just throw them in the bin!
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
I was thinking I don't have too many strange things other than an inordinate number of books. Then I noticed the Klein bottle and the railroad lantern on the mantel.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
People might possibly wonder about my (working) collection of music books. Some of them exist in several different versions, by various publishers, because of the differences in engraving. For instance, the Schirmer editions of both books of 'The Well Tempered Clavichord' never get played anymore, but the Kalmus editions are played frequently.

Yes, I have been asked why! Several times.
 

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Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :
 
We have 7 sewing machines, a large Argon ion laser in the loft and an x-ray box. I'm a part-time seamstress and my other half is a quantum physicist, so not unreasonable.
More intriguing might be that I spent at least 7 years visiting forums whilst using the username puddlepants : ) That used to raise a few eyebrows.
 

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Posted by Avila (# 15541) on :
 
I have plenty of space - and fill it! I currently have a collection of empty bottles some of which have had the bottoms cut off. A second microwave for my mini kiln, and a broken vase. The bottles are part of my experiments with fusing recycled glass, the vase though is there because you never know when a prop about brokenness may come in useful...

And that's not including the eggboxes and other assorted things I claim to keep for children's craft (even if they have been there for 2-3 years so far...)
 

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Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :
 

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Originally posted by Avila:
I have plenty of space - and fill it! I currently have a collection of empty bottles some of which have had the bottoms cut off. A second microwave for my mini kiln, and a broken vase. The bottles are part of my experiments with fusing recycled glass, the vase though is there because you never know when a prop about brokenness may come in useful...

And that's not including the eggboxes and other assorted things I claim to keep for children's craft (even if they have been there for 2-3 years so far...)

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I have collection of empty bottles too, for slumping in my small craft kiln ( I also have a microwave kiln which I use for jewellery).
 

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Posted by Avila (# 15541) on :
 
Tangent....

What kiln do you use for slumping? I am currently looking at getting one but the size I can stretch to would not be enough for full size wine bottles....
 

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Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :
 
I've only got a little sc2 so can only do small bottles and jars - cue me buying miniature bottles of wine So I can do recycled spoon rests but not serving trays/cheese boards. Mostly I do jewellery, candle holders, bowls etc. I've only had it a few months. I still use the microwave kiln for some jewellery as it has instant results.
 

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Posted by The Weeder (# 11321) on :
 
Books. There are books everywhere.

Some one asked me if I was a teacher- he could not imagine why anyone would have all these books without a reason. And to be fair to him. only one bookshelf has fiction. All the others, in my study, living room, bedroom, landing and kitchen are non fiction.
 

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Posted by The Rhythm Methodist (# 17064) on :
 
I have a collection of memorabilia from the 1851 Great Exhibition, but most of my junk is unidentifiable - a legacy from ebay, where my favourite search terms are "unknown" and "mystery item".

I briefly owned a "leather" bottle, fashioned from a scrotum, but I felt this would better enhance my father's collection.

My long-suffering wife is generally understanding, but drew the line at an elephant's foot umbrella stand, a cast-iron tortoise spittoon, and an eighteenth century prosthetic arm....complete with rusting hook. There's no accounting for taste - or (in her case) the lack of it.
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 

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Originally posted by The Weeder:
Books. There are books everywhere.

Some one asked me if I was a teacher- he could not imagine why anyone would have all these books without a reason. And to be fair to him. only one bookshelf has fiction. All the others, in my study, living room, bedroom, landing and kitchen are non fiction.

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But this is supposed to be about strange things! There's nothing strange about lots of books!

What I can never comprehend is a home with one bookcase -- most of which contains knick-knacks instead of books.
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Weeder:
[qb] Books. There are books everywhere.

What I can never comprehend is a home with one bookcase -- most of which contains knick-knacks instead of books.

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
But this is supposed to be about strange things! There's nothing strange about lots of books!

What I can never comprehend is a home with one bookcase -- most of which contains knick-knacks instead of books.

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Originally posted by The Rhythm Methodist:

....a cast-iron tortoise spittoon ......

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Originally posted by Polly Plummer:
Last time we moved house, one of the removal men said "Why have you got all these boxes marked Books? Are you an accountant?" I said "No, they're books to read". He said "Blimey! Hear that, Bill? they're ordinary reading books!" and Bill said "Blimey!"

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Some years ago, when bf and I were moving from respective flats to new house, the removal men came for my stuff first, because I had the teensy 2 room place one flight up - whereas flat no 2 was both large and at the top of 90 stairs.

'Look at all them books!' they said when they saw my shelves. Oh dear, I thought. Oh dear. Oh dear.

[ 20. November 2012, 13:23: Message edited by: Firenze ]
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Two of my dearest friends have two bookcases. One holds an ancient encyclopaedia. The other hold a small assortment of books about cats, and cat ornaments. Whenever I visit, I bring an assortment of books to read. I can deal with no computer, but not with no books.
 

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Posted by Unda Maris (# 4983) on :
 
Back to skeletons (of course), I once heard someone who had to transport a skeleton across town and wanted to carry it as a motorbike pillion. To turn a few heads, I suppose.

They couldn't do it, though, as they couldn't find a crash helmet to fit!
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Once here in Mozambique, a friend asked me to take a full-sized dress-doll with me when I was driving to another city. The doll wasn't exactly in one piece anymore, so there were various loose limbs in the back of my pick-up truck.

Normally in this country, the police puts up many road blocks where they want to search the contents of your car. This time, I so wanted that they'd look in the back. But alas, they didn't
 

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Posted by Imersge Canfield (# 17431) on :
 
This is a great thread. I am quite a horder too.

I justify it by calling stuff found objects !

I am a sucker for anything interesting or strangely facinating.

I have a number of teapots and all kinds of stones and bark.
 

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Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 
The Rhythm Methodist said

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most of my junk is unidentifiable - a legacy from ebay, where my favourite search terms are "unknown" and "mystery item".

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Originally posted by Chorister:
Less easy to explain is my collection of stones with holes in.

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Originally posted by Chorister:
Less easy to explain is my collection of stones with holes in.

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We call them bricks

To be collectable stones, especially pebbles, have to have a marbling pattern to them. And small. Except for the ones which are flat enough for skimming, as these are always skimmed, no matter how beautiful the patterning.
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
I have a large collection of assorted wine-bottle corks on my kitchen counter. I plan to make a hotpad out of some of them. They need to be decanted into a large bucket so we can do more sophisticated cooking.
 

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Posted by que sais-je (# 17185) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I have a large collection of assorted wine-bottle corks on my kitchen counter. I plan to make a hotpad out of some of them. They need to be decanted into a large bucket so we can do more sophisticated cooking.

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Less easy to explain is my collection of stones with holes in.

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Originally posted by que sais-je:

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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I have a large collection of assorted wine-bottle corks on my kitchen counter. I plan to make a hotpad out of some of them. They need to be decanted into a large bucket so we can do more sophisticated cooking.

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My wife and I kept a champagne cork (or Cava when we were poorer) for each wedding anniversary in a special box. It filled up after about 20 years so it was divorce or dump the corks. We're still married.

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Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:

now I have seven years of my earwax in one fist-sized lump.

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Originally posted by mark_in_manchester
Ooooh, you bad man. That's planted a seed in me which didn't need planting.

I love old shite, especially value-less old shite. I go right off things which later turn out to be 'collectible'.

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Originally posted by The Machine Elf:

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Originally posted by Chorister:
Less easy to explain is my collection of stones with holes in.

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Did they have holes in them before you collected them?

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