All About Collections

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Hello travelers! Enjoying your coffee? Good. Lets sit back and relax a bit while we chat about collecting. Do you have a collection? I don't have a collection, I have several.

1. Playing Cards: My playing card collection is probably my top priority. Err...as far as my collections go. Not only are playing cards unique, they are one of the less expensive souvenirs you can find. Usually they cost no more than $5, and they don't take up too much space when you pack to go home. I try to pick up a deck in each gift shop I come across in my travels. Sure, I could ask for them for Christmas and my birthday, but it's just not the same. While I like all unique playing card decks, I really like it when not only the backs differ from other decks, but the card faces as well. One thing I like to do that would probably cause other collectors to gasp is I play at least one game of solitaire or rummy with every single card deck I buy. Why? Cause that's what they were made for! :)

2. Key chains: Key chains can be either cheaper or as cheap as playing cards, and they take up even less room. There are probably more variations in key chains than playing cards, but I still prefer the playing cards. One thing I like to do with my key chains is use them as zipper pulls on my jackets and handbags.

3. Blankets: Yup. You heard me right. I've just started to realize how many blankets I have and all the different uses for them. I have one acting as a door curtain for my bedroom. Yes, I have a door, but I like the look and idea of having a blanket over my doorway. I have two over the tops of some of my storage furniture for decoration. I have two acting as mattress padding on my bed, and one that I actually use as a blanket. Would I be willing to share my blankets? Yeah, absolutely. But I just like being creative with them.

4. Knick-knacks: I never meant to. Honest. But they just kept coming as Christmas and birthday gifts, and I came to love 'em. I have so many I have them in sets. Wild animals and Native American on one storage shelf. Angels and bells(did I mention my bells? I don't have very many, but I might start collecting them, which is why they don't have a separate category yet) on my bookcase. Cats on another storage shelf. Christian ones on my dresser. And yes, some up in the attic. I dunno...I just like creating scenes with each 'set'.

I think that's all my collections. What do you collect? See you soon!