What do you collect?

[Doktor Krollspell]

So what do I collect? The answer is quite simple...

Books, books, books and then some more books!

We have book shelves literally all over our apartment and luckily I have a very understanding wife... Anyhow, they are mostly on history, military history, religion and philosophy with a book on astronomy now and then...

When it comes to stuff, I have some medals, photographs and paperwork on relatives on my Father's side of the family but it's not that much. Most of my surplus money are spent on books and on my two children and Ouch! Sorry... yes on my lovely wife!


Regards,

Krollspell

[Taylor Collector]

How do your kids put up with an apartemnt full of books?

It is only the fact I got a rifle for my 10th Birthday that I have been able to defend my right to have a room full of WWII Stuff . (Joke)

TS Allen

[Doktor Krollspell]

What choice do they have? I'm brainwashing them into becoming intellectual bookworms and learning them the only lesson in life that they will need...

Judge your fellow human beings after the contents of their bookshelves...


Regards,

Krollspell

[Taylor Collector]

Quite true.

TS Allen

[xavier]

@ Doktor Krollspell
re:

Judge your fellow human beings after the contents of their bookshelves...

or I may add..bathrooms
my bathroom-shelf: http://community.webshots.com/photo/123 ... 0923toJVTi
(then click on view full size to read all the titles..)
Xavier

[Doktor Krollspell]

Ah, Xavier... it's beautiful! The bathroom is an excellent place to read and for reflection, don't you agree?! Personally, I don't have a stack of books in my bathroom since my kids loves to play U-boat and convoy every time they taking one of their oh, so frequent baths... But still, I always bring the occasional WWII-related book with me... after all, it's all about mind and matter... life


With many more books to read,

Krollspell

[DXTR]

ahh don't ask me why but sitting on the can taking the proverbial "dump" is a quite moment to relax and enjoy just a bit of reading. Unfortunately I live in an old apartmentblock (about a hundred years old) and therefore I share my toilet with my neighbour, who might not understand my obsession with the wartheme. So I bring my book to and from the toilet, a habit that is not really supported by my girlfriend who asks everytime I am doing a bit of a stepdance while battling the spasms in my bladder looking for the right book to bring... "looking for a pooper book are we, why don't you just go!?"

regards

DXTR

[jscott]

DX

I think its a guy thing bud. I do the same thing as I still live at home with my parents. I have to take my book with me to read. Right now Im reading one called 1812.

[phylo_roadking]

God Bless all the militaria and weapons collectors on here......

Stuck in Northern Ireland as I am there is NO market for this stuff - I mean noone selling, no shops nothing. And any sort of mail ordering on ANY militaria is a quick way of getting a visit from the Filth. This is a "country" where theres still an active law preventing you wearing a surplus beret in the street if the police want to push it, as "paramilitary uniform". You need a collectors' chit sort of thing to carry a replica gun even in your own car if outside your own house.

Tho miraculously Ive accumulated a Lee Enfield no.3 bayonet(short), not the pigsticker one, a Lee Metford bayonet, A Danish Army Dress uniform Jacket, a genuine pair of Ulster Home Guard leather gaiters, and a Wehrmacht peaked fieldcap. Not intentionally as part of a collection tho....

That energy I retain for my 5,500 scifi paparback - only 4 accidental duplicates, and 7 first editions.

And my several garagefuls of mootorcycles, alive and dead. Its not that I collect them - I'm a terrible salesman! lol lol Tho if any american forum members could pick me up the rear 16" wheel from an American-market shaft drive Kawasaki Z550 i'd be very grateful lol lol

phylo

[Taylor Collector]

Ah, Xavier... it's beautiful! The bathroom is an excellent place to read and for reflection, don't you agree?! Personally, I don't have a stack of books in my bathroom since my kids loves to play U-boat and convoy every time they taking one of their oh, so frequent baths... But still, I always bring the occasional WWII-related book with me... after all, it's all about mind and matter... life


With many more books to read,

Krollspell

When I am on the toliet I often lauch a submarine, but on such a small ocean it has nothing to hunt, so I flush it .

Ah, immature Toliet Humor .

Of course, I should admit, even I still play convoy in the tub. People wonder why I have three German models of the Bismarck, and American Aircraft carrier, eight Submarines, a few Commercial ships and as of late a seaplane tender in my restroom as models. I just saw "decorations" although anyone in there after I take a bath could reckognize different .

TS Allen

[phylo_roadking]

Does collecting speeding tickets count?

phylo

[Annelie]

Books and more books and a smattering of anything that catches
my interest of the "dritte reich."

[Helmut Von Moltke]

I collect autographs from German veterans, several original photos and postcards, 12 inch and 1/35 models of Panzers, and Wehrmacht / Waffen SS men, and some books, for example Osprey ones and Guderian's memoirs. I also plan to collect some repro medals, can't afford real ones (except a wound badge, getting that soon)

[Mastema]

1/35 scale ww II models and men. I guess books also.

[Spinechicken]

I am drawn, Magpie-like, to 1/32 model AFV's (three displaycases worth and counting), 1/6 Scale Figures and books. God, don't let me get into my local military bookshop, because I inevitably come out with arms bent beneath the weight of several bookshelves-worth of books (and my pocket considerably lighter). I think I've actually run out of space for and now might be the time to consider an extenstion. The trouble with history is that there is just too much of it.

And I'd agree that the bog is a fantastic place for expanding the mind as well as the bowels.

-SC