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Have you ever heard the packrat's creed, "One is a dust-catcher, but two is a collection"?  This is ME!  I collect so much "stuff" that it would be easier to list what I do NOT collect--but what would be the fun of that?  So, here are a few things that I pursue, some actively and enthusiastically--others simply because I can't bear to throw 'em out. 

If we share some hobbies & you'd like to swap stuff, let me know.  I'd also just love to hear from other packrats.  Confession is good for the soul! 


What I Collect
(Roughly in order of importance)

Business cards:
   Business Card Find of the Decade
    Tombsone, Arizona, City Marshal (autographed)
    Walter Day/Craig Shergold/John Haffner finds

Victorian trade cards (specializing in cats, Christmas, and calling cards)
Pens
Pencils
Key chains
Buttons, pinback (advertising, political, any & all)
Anything related to cats
Postcards
Antique labels (fruit crate, cigar boxes, etc.)
Matchbooks
Quilts, quilted wall hangings & pillows
Bookmarks
T-shirts ("gimmes" & commemoratives--such as from a concert, festival, convention, etc.)
Bumper stickers
Stickers  
Magnets 
Baseball caps
Cereal box toys
All advertising premiums and "gimmes" -- Bandaid holders, frisbees, sewing kits, rulers, letter openers, stress balls, chip clips, etc.
Antique ephemera of any kind (greeting cards, almanacs, receipts, old prescriptions, checks issued for tiny amounts, March of Dimes & Christmas seals, etc.)
*Anything* antique actually!  
Wooden nickels
Tokens of any kind
Mardi Gras doubloons and beads
Records (45s, 33s, and 78s) and 8-tracks
Keys
Buttons (the kind on clothes -- particularly antique)
Patches
Coins and paper money 
License plate personalizations (that I have spotted myself)
Shot glasses from every state we've visited
Restaurant menus (signed or unsigned)
Road maps (antique and new)
Dairy milk bottles and bottle tops
Plastic stadium/advertising cups, casino cups
AOL (& any other) free CD's
Beer/beverage coasters
"Satin" ribbons (campaign, MADD, blue ribbons, etc.)
Stamps (mainly cats and Christmas)

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