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How do you view your collection?

It's a hobby for fun
13 (65%)
It's an investment
1 (5%)
I do not have a "collection", rather they are my EDC items
5 (25%)
"Other"
1 (5%)

Total Members Voted: 20

Voting closed: January 25, 2010, 07:26:34 PM

Author Topic: Why do we collect?  (Read 1694 times)

Offline Pacu

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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2010, 09:09:28 PM »
I collect so when the S____ hits the fan in 2012 my post-apocalyptic army will be well prepared.  ::)


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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2010, 01:38:34 AM »
I collect so when the S____ hits the fan in 2012 my post-apocalyptic army will be well prepared.  ::)

Can we postpone that until 2013 please? We're planning a trip to Disneyworld in 2012. :)
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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2010, 02:02:03 AM »
I collect so when the S____ hits the fan in 2012 my post-apocalyptic army will be well prepared.  ::)

Can we postpone that until 2013 please? We're planning a trip to Disneyworld in 2012. :)

Only if i can go....and ya gotta buy me some mouse ears too

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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2010, 10:02:04 AM »
The voices tell me to collect or something bad will happen in 2012 (Disneyland or not).. :ahhh :ahhh

"Don't mistake lack of talent for genius."

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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2010, 12:32:27 AM »
The voices tell me to collect or something bad will happen in 2012 (Disneyland or not).. :ahhh :ahhh

Listen to the voices Allan, listen to the voices. :pok: :D
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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #20 on: June 17, 2011, 01:54:45 PM »
Another fun thread to resurrect.  :D

My collection started innocently enough. My first MT was a PST that I was given by a friend. I was in his wedding party, and he gave one to each of his groomsmen. He even had the wedding date and the groomsman's name engraved on each. I carried this for several years until I happened across a Pulse on sale (they had just come out). Not wanting to mangle my fingers anymore on non-locking tools, I picked it up.

A few years later, I was in the store with my wife when we wandered through the sporting goods section. They had several LM Cores on clearance for $15 each and Gerber MP600's for $10 each. I was only able to get one of each, but if my wife had not been there I'd have cleaned them out.  >:D

It was all downhill from there. I found my wife's original Wave sitting abandoned (and virtually unused) in a book bag from when she was in IT at school. I snagged a Juice S2 on sale for a smaller EDC.  I talked my way into a Charge TTi for my birthday one year. Etc, etc...

I have some SOGs and Gerbers, but I still love Leatherman the best. Anytime I find another tool on sale, I need to buy it (even if it puts me in the doghouse for a while). I was incredibly grateful to find such a community of like-minded deviants enthusiasts as yourselves.   :rofl: :cheers:

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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2011, 12:20:23 AM »
We're not deviants. We're the normal ones. :multi: It's everyone else that is screwed up in the head. :D
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Offline Chako

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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2011, 01:33:09 AM »
I can  :drink: to that!  :D

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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2011, 02:46:29 AM »
Could all the threads we collect on any given topic be considered a collection?  I think we may all have collection fever but this disease can be fun. 

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Re: Why do we collect?
« Reply #24 on: June 29, 2011, 03:33:54 AM »
Just figuring out how to SPAM... :P  :P


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