THE MOFO CHILL CLUB

I love big cities too, but I like living in the country. Then when you visit one, it's really spectacular.

I go through periods where I collect things. Right now it's comic books. I've always collected books in general.

I collected bird feeders for awhile. I also like to collect local art. Sometimes the stuff that people want for their work is outrageous, so I don't have all the local artists. A lot of them have just gave me stuff, so that's cool.

I also have a thing for bags. Not just purses, those are included, but also backpacks, totes, anything you can carry stuff in. I'm crazy for them.

I don't know if colored pencils and art supplies count, but I can't stop buying them and I log every item. At this point I have 273 colored pencils. That's counting the stubs, but I can't bring myself to throw them out. Besides they are still usable, I just wouldn't want to color a large area with them.

My collections

Packer pictures and basic wall memorabilia
Packer Bobbleheads
Movies (duh)
Sports cards (not as much anymore, but I still have them)
Hats


My new collection is the Marvel Superhero and Villain Chess Pieces. They are badass.

I have a really sweet hand made painting of Hawaii Waikiki shoreline. I'll have to take a picture and put it on here.

Oh, and golf balls of random places that I have been to.

I don't buy a lot of art, but I go to a lot of craft shows, and every now and then something catches my eye and I just have to buy it. My favorite piece of art is a picture that the guy made while I watched. He used an iron to melt crayons, and then used the iron as a paint brush to "paint" the picture. He even asked me what my favorite colors are so he could make sure that I would like the colors.



When I was younger, I collected baseball cards, but I stopped collecting them when the prices jumped from about 50 cents a pack to about $3 a pack. That just took all the fun out of it for me.

And I have a ton of bobbleheads all over the house.

I don't have the Marvel chess set yet, but I have the Star Trek chess set, the Looney Tunes chess set, and the Hanna Barbera chess set. I had the Star Trek 3-D chess set, but my mom stole it from me, (with my permission),

I have some golf balls in my collection, but they all have characters on them. I have golf balls with Tweety & Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, Bugs Bunny, Chip & Dale, Scooby-Doo, NY Mets, etc.

My golf ball highlights: Pearl Harbor, a bunch of Packer ones, Caesers Palace, Sahara (a closed Las Vegas casino!), Disney World, Branson.

I'm going to get a Navy Pier one hopefully when me and the wife go to Chicago in late October.

Oh yeah, that reminds me. I also have a bunch of cool poker chips from my visits to Atlantic City. They all have cool pictures on them instead of just the hotel name. My favorite one has a picture of Johnny Mathis on it.

And I also have a bunch of souvenir silver coins from the slots machines at AC. Each coin is worth $10, and they can be traded in to the casino at any time for "real" money. Whenever I go to AC, I only play the slot machines that give out these coins, and then I keep them as souvenirs instead of trading them back in.

I have been trying to come up with something cool to collect for a couple years, but nothing yet has struck my fancy. I loved baseball cards as a teenager but sold my collection when they over saturated the market and I knew my addiction would get the best of me. I may just stick to blu-rays.

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Crap! I totally forgot about my Las Vegas poker chip collection! And that is actually my favorite of them all! I still need a case for them.

I was really mad I didn't get a Sahara one before they closed.

I've seen that done. I would love to learn how to do that.

I'm so excited about fall. Florida has some awesome flea markets but I don't like to go in the summer because it's too hot for the dogs and Bunny loves flea markets so much that I feel guilty going without him.

There is always some great finds there. I also love finding great deals. Last time I was there I got Patchoulis oil, a ring, a charm for Gidget's collar, four comic books and a bag all for under $20. The bag was this really cool tote bag with a frog on it so I was completely happy.

I love a good deal. I'll spend top dollar when it's something that I feel it's worth it like shoes, food or certain art supplies. I'm cheap as hell when it comes to things that you can get dirt cheap that are just as good as the expensive things.

I get so excited about my "finds" I went to Big Lots and they had these plastic folders that snap shut so your papers are completely enclosed and protected. Perfect for artwork. 25 cents a piece. Then I use a children's detangler on my hair instead of conditioner and that was 2 for a dollar. Two of those will last me most of the year.

Sometimes I can find stuff like that at the flea market. This woman sells this soap that she makes herself and it smells wonderful. It's 2 dollars a bar but 1 if you buy 10. 10 bars will last me a year or more.

I save a ton of money that way.

Last flea market I went to I found absolutely nothing that I would have wanted. But oh well.

I love flea markets, but a lot of the ones around here have become just a bunch of boring, cheaply made retail stuff. That's why I prefer garage sales. You never know what you'll find at a garage sale. On a good weekend, we can hit as many as 100 garage sales in two days.

And I know what you mean about your "finds". Some of my favorite "finds" are cheap items, like my little PVC figures for my desk. Especially when I find a character that I didn't think was even made, like my little figure of Professor Gangreen from the Killer Tomatoes movies.

Try garage sales.

I'm gonna get my third chess piece tomorrow. Thinking Wolverine, but may change my mind.

I just bought my chess sets with the board and pieces all at the same time. I think they're from The Franklin Mint. They offered an option of two pieces a month until I had all the pieces, and then I could buy the board, but my mother-in-law got screwed on a Hummel set that they stopped making after a few months, so I opted to buy the complete sets all at once.

Buying one at a time is just fun to me. I don't know why. Fun to see collections build, rather than just buy it and and have it right away.

I agree. I love building the collection, but I know that with my luck they would stop selling the pieces before I finished the set.

This is some pics of the Waldo Flea Market just so you can get an idea of how big it is

The Waldo Flea Market looks a lot like the car show / swap meets around here. They've become the closest thing we have to a good flea market, but there are only a few big ones left.

We have a couple more but that's the biggest best one. It takes a good deal of time if you want to get to everything so I always make a day of it. You always want to go on a Sunday and stay until closing.

I shop all the places, see what I want then go back at closing. People will make the better deals then because they want to unload their stuff.

Unless it's already such a good deal that I would feel bad haggling them any lower, but a lot of them expect that and set their prices higher. I love haggling.

If anyone can vote in the folk tournament matches 4 & 6, it's tied and I can't move forward.