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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 174330, member: 136&quot;]I think I&#039;ve been collecting since I was BORN!</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have my baby silver, the Steiff teddies that relatives presented at my birth, every toy I loved from childhood, my pristine Barbies from the early 1960&#039;s - you name it!</p><p><br /></p><p>Up above, Brad mentioned&nbsp; the rocks, shells &amp; all that he collected as a kid. I did the same &amp; still have jars &amp; jars of lovely shells, bottles of pretty pebbles, beach glass, and even a paperweight-size piece of granite I picked up when I was a kid... (I actually wrote &quot;Vermont 1964&quot; on the back of it!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have a couple dozen things purchased at the NY World&#039;s Fair in 1964-65. Mom took us every month while it was open, and each trip, my sisters &amp; I were each allowed to pick a &quot;special something&quot; from a foreign country - no kitschy souvenirs... </p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, I inherited many things from my grandparents, and my Mom has been &quot;passing along&quot; all sorts of things for years. (She&#039;s 89 now, and at my last visit to her home, she urged me to &quot;take anything you want&quot; from the house. I mailed almost 30 lbs of photos home from her place, but I didn&#039;t take anything else - I just don&#039;t need any more STUFF!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, I have more collections than anyone should... Sterling silver, china, crystal... Sheep... Pre-1960 Steiff animals... Tiny pitchers &amp; creamers... Old mailbox banks... Kunstlerschutz animals... and lots &amp; lots more.</p><p><br /></p><p>My family has traveled a lot, and we&#039;ve bought things to hang on the Christmas tree just about everywhere we&#039;ve been. (Many items didn&#039;t start out as ornaments, but they do work well for that purpose.) I have enough ornaments to decorate half a dozen big trees, and I&#039;m looking forward to passing special, meaningful ornaments along to my kids for <i>their </i>trees in the years to come.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have &quot;downsized&quot; twice now, in the last several years, but I STILL have just about all of my collections. (How the heck did THAT happen???)</p><p><br /></p><p>-C-[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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