OT: what do you collect? I have a few old Mich ticket stubs.
Regrets.
I've had a few ...
Bourbon, its a living collection.... everything gets consumed, nothing is in the bunker for 'looks'
I collect bourbon too. Great and expensive hobby. I’ve all but stopped w the hunting aspect these past few months. Between building my bourbon library/study when I renovated my basement and getting my hands on a stagg and feeling a bit let down, the trill just dissipated.
now I’m back to stocking up on my early times bib, wt101, of1920, and pikesville
I collect toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
Down to 13.5 bog rolls here with 4 people in the house. I may have to lock and load and go find some more soon.
Koala pelts.
The blood of my enemies
I have my tix to the 1996 frozen four.
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Losses to OSU.
Hey Jim!
I collect watches. I got into it about 18 months ago. I've probably owned about 50 different watches in that time, but usually keep about 12-15 at any given time. I most recently acquired a piece to commemorate the birth of my first child last Friday. One day I will pass it on to him.
Mexican Libertads. In 2019, only 30 out of a total mintage of 750 1 oz. gold Libertads were graded MS70 (perfect) by PCGS.
Those are my favorite gold bullion regardless of condition with sovereigns being a close second. The design, size and heft of the coins are perfect.
This is pretty cool. I have no knowledge or experience with collection coins/bullion, but it is intriguing.
Never too late to start. You can get these 100 troy oz. (6.86 lbs.) bars of copper for $124.99 at APMEX.com.
They have some really interesting stuff on that site.
Yes!
Metals are a steal right now as everyone sells them to pay for their margin calls.
Great time to get into them.
Speaking of ticket stubs, anyone know why people are always asking for them at the exits after games?
They take them and sell them for anywhere from $5-20 each on eBay. Look on there, you will see sellers with a large amount listed.
I collect Canadian quarters... I've got about 6 of 'em.
Calories.
Video games, classic ones like for NES and SNES. They've been especially fun to dig out and play with the kids for the last week.
I used to collect hockey cards when I was a kid. Parents got rid of them when I moved out, didn't really care about it for a while. Started following someone on Instagram who posts pictures of cards that I used to collect, now I'm back to collecting again!
I collect watches.
I attended every UM Rose Bowl game and have all corresponding tickets and program from 1978-2007. Went with the MMB ‘79 and ‘81.
Craploads of wine.
When I was a kid growing up in the 1990's, I collected baseball and basketball cards. Thank goodness, because now that the market's tanking, my cards will be my retirement. I haven't checked values in decades, but I'm sure they all went sky high
I did the same thing, from about 1987-1992. They are all still stored at my mom's house. A couple years ago my son was in Cub Scouts and we did a field trip to a collector's store. After the tour I asked the guy about my collection. Sadly, he said they were essentially worthless and I'd probably get nothing for them. Apparently the late-80s is when the card companies started mass producing more cards and they were so plentiful that they lost all value. Only the very rare error cards or maybe a Ken Griffey rookie have even modest value. Needless to say....I'm not counting on my collection to replace my 401k.
See my post below. 1987-1992 was just about the bottom of the market. All the card companies made an awful lot of junk at the time. I remember buying a Beckett price guide in 1992 (right after I graduated high school) and seeing over 150 different issues of cards just in 1992 alone. At that point I knew something was wrong.
Speaking of this, why is there always someone outside of Michigan games collecting hundreds of stubs every game?
Toilet paper substitute. Some folks knew this was coming and started collecting years ago.
My advice, do not become a serious collector. The day will come when you regret it and get stressed worrying about how you are going to get rid of all that crap in your basement.
I’ve saved every ticket stub from every game I’ve attended for 30 years, most of them at least. And that’s going away now with the mobile apps.
March 19th, 2020 at 10:41 PM ^
Likewise (though not for quite as long). In the past five years or so I’ve started writing the score and who I was with on the back of the stub and wishing I had done that earlier. Ive got a big tin full of em and one day I plan on incorporating them into a glass covered man room table or bar. A great conversation starter. Stupid printouts/barcoded computer paper is tacky.
I sort of stumbled into collecting Michigan-related Bobble-heads. When I moved away from home after college my relatives who didn't know what to buy me for gifts would always send random Michigan stuff. I got a couple of interesting bobble-heads but didn't think much of it. When I bought my latest house and had sort of a man-cave in the basement I decided to collect more of them and have a decent collection. (The most unique is an off-brand version of Robert Tractor Traylor.)
I'm always looking for more unique ones - either of guys while at Michigan or on their pro teams. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!
*I have a golf ball display from courses I’ve played.
*Every sporting or concert ticket I have ever attended.
*Baseball and football cards from when I was a kid. I’m not MGrowOld but close enough there are some pretty sweet ones.
*A large beer can collection in boxes.
You are a collection of four friends of mine
I've been collecting Michigan ticket stubs since I was a kid attending games, now more as a hobby (basically adult baseball cards). I'm always interested in filling in holes in my collection, particularly for away games or complete / unused tickets. Also collect some other random things like pocket schedules from all of the non-revenue sports. Would love to hear from people who might have any! [email protected]
Michigan glasses from bowl games and championships. Had to expand to two shelves recently. Am still looking for a few that I know exist.
Also have close to 100 autographs. Just got a team signed 2019 Michigan Baseball dogpile photo for $50 on eBay today.
We got a 2 bedroom apartment so I could have my memorabilia room. Work in progress because there's a lot of empty space to fill compared to my last M room which was full to the point where I had to start picking what I wanted up. This is only one corner of the room.
Got this signed in person by Winovich. Had to zoom in-
Fab Five pic isn't signed but had to have it up. Good luck finding any single photo signed by all 5 of the Fab Five. The Block M in the wood frame is a 2017-18 team signed photo I received as a Christmas gift.
One of my favorite pieces is this lithograph signed by Michigan Hockey royalty. Steve Shields, Aaron Ward, Hobey Baker winner Brendan Morrison, Red Berenson and Marty Turco.
I have a signed 16x20 of both Michigan Basketball national player of the year winners. Got to meet both of them when they signed them.
This Cazzie Russell one I got signed Homecoming 2019 weekend. I told him what game the photo was from (1965 vs MSU) and that he had 32 points. So he not only signed his name in gold for me but also wrote "32 pts", the date of the game and Go Blue! on it.
Good shit.
heck of a collection WD. torn as to which one is my favorite: chase/paul bunyan or the hockey one.
Great collection. Thanks for sharing.
I have a collection of Michigan bowl game glasses going back to around 1980. Every year, they sell these at M-Den and maybe a few other stores. The matchup and bowl logo are on one side and Michigan's season record with all the scores is on the other side. I have most of the glasses for the bowl games since that year, with maybe a few missing years. I'm hoping to display them on some glass shelves eventually.
I collect redwood ~ 7-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches by about 5 feet long. Mine has numbers burned into it (19-21) and a couple of bolt holes. It seems really old - maybe 90 years. Still looking for another one.
ticket stubs from games and concerts
Hard Rock Cafe pins
Ticket stub from 1969 M-OSU and Woody Toilet Paper. No, I will not be desparate enough to use it.
Wipe woody!
I'm doing the baseball card thing.
I collected growing up, and put them away when I went to college. After college I bought some higher-end things, such as '68 Johnny Bench rookie, '55 Kaline (his rookie is a '54), and a '66 Mantle. The oldest card I have is from the T-206 set (the Honus Wagner set), from 1909-1911. I thought I was done. But then late in 2018, my dad's cousin passed away. They went to clean out his house and he had a bunch of cards from the mid-to-late 70's. That stoked the interest again.
My current project is putting together every Topps set from 1970 to 1993. It's a total of exactly 18,000 cards. I've got 9 of those sets completely finished. and a few more well within range of being finished. The ones where I have a lot of work to do are 1970-1974. I've been picking stuff off on Ebay and card shows in Jackson and Toledo. Most of the big-dollar stuff is finished, but 1970-1972 especially need bigger names yet. My spreadsheet (this is the accounting geek coming out in me) shows that I'm 88% done.
My next project will be assembling every Topps Detroit Tiger set from 1960-1990. That one might turn out to be inexpensive. The biggest thing is getting the Kaline cards, and they're not going to really break the bank, relatively speaking. I've already got the Trammell-Morris-Parrish-Whitaker rookies.
I had a collection of baseball cards from back when a "collection" meant a stack that you wrapped in a rubber band and kept in a drawer. You'd occasionally take one from some player you'd never heard of and clip it in your bike spokes to make that motorized sound. (Yes kids, we really did that.)
In that stack was Mickey Mantle's retirement card. Some time after I'd moved out, my mother's hyper-housecleaning gene kicked in, and she threw out much of my childhood stuff - including those cards.
I might forgive her one day, but it's doubtful.