Collections
There are a few things I collect. Collecting is an interesting phenomenon, some people are collectors, some aren’t. Many children I think are collectors, and then some out grow it while others don’t. As a child I collected shells, not just from the beach, but exotic ones from the stores too when I could save enough for one. I collected pennies and nickles and dimes, but mostly pennies from various years past, the older the better, but not interested in duplicates, one for each year. I don’t have the shells anymore, lost interest in collecting them. I don’t collect old coins anymore either, though I did keep the ones I had allready collected.
There are a number of things I collect now. A particular type of japanese pottery called soma ware it has a muted green crackle glaze, and often incorporates a painted golden horse image. Used saris in vibrant reds or pinks with unusual beading. I collect asian snuff bottles, glass ones that are painted on the inside, ones carved of ox-horn, I like unusual shapes, and erotic themes the best. I collect sake bottles, not the little ones you serve sake in, but the big ones you buy them in, not the glass kind you get in liquor stores here, but the pottery kind you get in Japan with the Japanese kanji word for sake hand written on them. I also collect Japanese tea mugs and bowls, but because they are so common, I’m really picky. Actually I’m really picky about everthing I collect, partly because I have so little living space. I collect 1950’s style cocktail aprons, useless as actual aprons, just odd little accessories from an era past, where the perfect housewife upon her guests arrival would remove her ‘real’ apron, and tie on the pristine frilly confection of the cocktail apron. Actually, I’ve taken most of my collection and resold it through vintage consignment, I only have a few keepers - I don’t wear them myself, they are for the fetishistic sissification of maids and houseboys.
Then there are the more informal collections, things in general that you like and buy, and maybe have more of than the average household but are fairly common. Art - particularly asian and/or erotic inspired. Pottery. Books. Fetish wear, lingerie, vintage lingerie, shoes. BDSM equipment and porn props.
My difficulties tend to lean towards not collecting rather than what to collect. I have to fight to -not- collect. Living in such a small space, under 500 square feet, shared with Wolfe and the pugs. Space is at a premium. Also some collections are better left small, like my snuff bottles, I don’t think I want too many of them, because they are such small items, they become lost if there is a sea of them, not to mention the prediliction for collecting dust, dust is something I don’t want to collect, but seems to be the one thing I collect the most regularly in the greatest abundance.
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