SteamGifts, what are you collecting?

I actually don't collect anything

I collect Minerals, fossils, archaeological finds and coins from the Portuguese monarchy (specially the silver ones). But minerals are my mane one, i have easily 4+ tons of rocks in my house :V ( i will start studying geology next year)

I also collect knifes, some guns but don't tell anybody cause its illegal here and of course steam games!

Old pic of a small part of my Mineral collection.

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The souls of the innocent..

Steam games, I have over 10000 and am ranked in the top 150 in the world! Favorite game is probably The Duck Game because it's fun to play with family and friends!

Apart from video games (obviously, although I only add games I'm interested to play some day) I collect minions (yellow fellows from the animated movie) – not that I am very hyped for this but when me or my gf see any, we buy it :P So actually we collect minions :P We also collect board games. Additionaly we collect countries we've visited as well :P

Wargaming stuff, pen & paper RPGs and boardgames. Well I'm not actively trying to bulk out my collections, I just buy the games I think look fun.

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Pokemon cards - only the first edition, first 150 pokemon cards.
slam dunk - only first edition manga
ds-3ds all pokemon games
Hitman birth of the agent comic books

will try to stop hoarding games and books from now... need to start saving

A lot of things with a wide range like for example (Israeli\Zionist) wine, whiskey, (special edition) movies, (Steam) games, music and (classic) guns.

Steam libraries are DEFINITELY welcome and tell me your best purchases! You should never be ashamed of having the money to buy games to play or +1, what you do with your life is all for yourself and nobody else should judge you. They are probably sad and poor and want to play your games ;)

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My most favorite games on Steam are the Orcs Must Die series with 1200+ hours of gaming and over 1 000 000 of Orcs and minions killed in very nice and enjoyable trap and weapon combos. ^^

I hope you both will have a nice and peaceful weekend, my friend! <3

Pokemon cards make me nostalgic. Though most of my collection was energy cards though. I did collect pirates of the Caribbean PocketModels too.

I don't really do standard collecting anymore, I just have a bunch of knick knacks and models with no commanilities besides I like them. Recently I've started adding a lot of weeb shit to it it though, fucking kill me.

I seem to have collected a large number of people who either hate me or have fallen in love with me. The former is on purpose, idk how I got the latter, I think some people feel a lot of sympathy towards me before I annoy the shit out of them. I still gotta get 7 more people to hate me here 'fore I get 300 bl.

The one thing I really wanna collect is pericings tho. But my job only allows earrings :/

Only collected physical items as a kid. They were -

• interesting empty bottles, mostly from alcohol. didn't last long and was tossed into a container
• bottlecaps, lasted one summer
• rocks, lasted couple weeks but was cut short by being ordered to load a cart with my "damn rocks" and dump them on the field from where most of them came :p

I own about 1000 books, fiction and non-fiction. Plus a lot of Artbooks from various games and Anime, and source books for BattleTech and Vampire The Masquerade.
I am an avid player and collector of pretty much everything from DSA (Das Schwarze Auge) The Dark Eye in english speaking countries, a Pen & Paper RPG from Germany. My first things from that are from 1991.

Regarding PC games, I still have about 150 physical games with their boxes and own > 800 on steam / 187 on GOG.

Some friends used to collect stamps, phone cards, TCG cards, but I've always and only collected coins (and maybe videogames, but not really). I always ask friends who go abroad to bring me back some coins of the local currency. I have 2 folders of sorted coins, plus about a box of unsorted stuff D: need to buy some more folders and make some order... and maybe I'll buy some coins I miss to complete some of my favourite sets.

I like UK Pounds because of their different shapes, with the thick 1£ coin being my favourite. Too bad I only own a few variations of it.
But what I like most, are (maybe because I'm Italian huehue) the old Italian Lire. There were so many beautiful coins, L100 and especially L200 and L500 had a wide variety, also because San Marino could issue coins (Vatican City too, but they were so rare up here, I only own a L100 one). See pictures below, coins from Italy and San Marino
I also have some silver coins, they are so nice because they're so large and fat and heavy <3 and a gold coin, but that's in the safe c:

I own several coins from most of European countries. It's nice to see how much nations are different just from their currencies. Too bad now in most of those countries there's that shitty thing called Euro: masked fixed exchange rates, with awful banknotes which only depict windows and bridges (where people usually jump from to kill themselves), and which don't even state what they're made for, and with awful coins (some countries don't even have different pictures on different coins; 1c and 2c coins are too small and, together with 5c, easily get rusty; 1€ and 2€ coins should have been banknotes because they're a lot of money in many countries). Not to mention that commemorative coins are mostly issued in 2€ coins, so collecting them is somewhat expensive.

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I like collecting postcards (I have counted them very long time ago and I had over 3k) and separately post stamps (not sure about the numbers as I have a big mess in them lately and need to reorganize them properly ^^'). Also I collect little pocket calendars and tea packaging.
My big hobby are books, so I have over 1000 of them, separately I am growing my manga collection. :)
Games are my passion too, I like to have physical copy in the boxes (especially collectors edition), still smaller than my steam collection where I hitted 500 not long time ago. ;)
Oh and don't forget artbooks! From games, anime, movies ... doesn't matter. :D

I suppose when I like something I start to hoarding it. XD

My only collection. Gathering them for over 10 years now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And about games, my best purchase was probably Tabletop Simulator, until my friends got bored of board games (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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Steam games, baseball cards, and a minted coin collection. By no means interesting, but it keeps me content. :)

• Blacklists ^^
• Games (Duh!)
• In the last three years I started to build a Blu-Ray Collection
• Music. Yes, on CDs. Although I hardly buy CDs anymore, to be honest. I started buying CDs when I was 13 or 14 and most of my money as a teenager and young adult went into music
• Comics. Though only digital. Had quite a big physical collection as a kid/teen up until my mum threw them all away because she thought I was "too old" for them :-/ I moved quite a lot and found it a hassle to transport physical collections like aforementioned CDs or games, so to my own convenience I switched to digital comics. My collection is at Comixology and I am very satisfied

Other than that, no, I don't really collect anything now.

Edit:
Oh, as a kid I collected:

• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toys, erm, Action figures :D
• Lego
• Amiga games
• A lot of Pen & Paper stuff (Dark Eye, everything AD&D, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, everything White Wolf, Cthulhu and so many more)
• There even was a brief time where I collected stamps and money from other countries. Today I can't grasp what fascinated me so much to collect those.. ^^

When I was younger, I was into collecting physical things like phone cards, pins or stamps.
As I got older I bought fewer but rarer physical things. I'm quite happy with my Skyrim Library hardcover books or my prized Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) steelbook.
However, I collect a lot of digital stuff beyond my Steam library: ebooks, music software, music tracks, games for emulators/linkers, ...

hmm,
I never really thought of these things as "collections", but now that Im thinking about it - I got bunch of old books from my grandfather, and I have been buying most of the books I read, instead of getting them at library, so I can have them in a shelf as a "collection" of sorts.
Also I love beer and I have several ( maybe 10 or so) beer mugs - different types for different beers, classic beer mugs with something written on them) and I get one if I visit a brewery. While at the beer - I also have somewhere in a drawer beer caps from different beers Ive tasted (one from each type).. Probably nothing much but maybe a start for a collection

Also, we have a huge thrift store in my city and you can find whatever you can imagine there. I go there to check out the place now and then (its almost like a museum of sorts) and once an old Canon camera cought my eye and being a photographer I had to have it. Paid like 5 euros IIRC. It sits behind the glass in my room, I plan to get it working (it still works on old film rolls). Also it has some kind of mercury battery for its electronic metering system (its from 60s), and those are illigal now. Have to figure out how to get it working. So I am quit certain I might get more old photography or film equipment for a sort of collection.

Btw. My mom works in postal office. They recieved a letter from a German fellow IIRC. He had written a letter in english saying he collects postmarks. In the letter he said he wants the postal office to cancel the letter and send it back to return address with our postmarks. And he had sent 5 euros in the letter for the postal office. Thats a serious collector.

I used to collect cards. I have the entire base set of Pokémon. The first set of Yu-Gi-Oh. The first set of Dragonball Z. After those I collected less as the sets came out faster than I had money to buy. I used to also have a massive collection of scooby doo things... Large stuffed animals. Toy cars with scooby doo theme but sadly I had to leave that behind due to circumstances. Stuff like that. Lately I don't collect much outside of games. I like to collect weapons, unlockables, etc in games. Takes up less irl space. Also a lot more fun to collect usually. XD

As a kid (10-12) I collected baseball cards. I'd buy a few packs, open them up, pop the strip of bubble gum in my mouth, and flip through the cards and see if it contained any I didn't have. I didn't buy whole sets and put them on a shelf for a decade. I have almost all of the 1980 season and most of 1981.

From, say, 9-13, I collected AD&D miniatures to play with and sometimes paint (badly). Those I definitely still have.

Other than that, just Magic the Gathering cards circa 1994-1997. I started collecting just after the nick of time to have some nice, valuable cards.

I collect coins, I have inherited my aunt's coin collection, with comemorative euro and yen coins, and I also have lots and lots of comemorative reais coins, some cruzeiros, escudos(the Portuguese coin before euro became the norm), I love collecting these coins, but I normally don't go out of my way to buy coins, most of the collection is from coins I get from change, I only bought some comemorative yen because it was dirt cheap

When I was a kid (9/12) I used to collect coins from all over the world and marbles.

Blacklisted games on SG... already got over 16300 (yep that too much trash around)
actually i see 25 active giveaways only

Books - Diary of a Wimpy Kid and others like Guinness and K-on manga.
Anime/manga - Made in Abyss and Attack on Titan posters

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