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DeeGee Nov 2018 10:36am, 8 Nov 2018 18,117 posts	0 DeeGee I've kept lots of race numbers, but there's only one I've ever wanted to frame: My medals used to be on a curtain pole, but they're now in a shoebox apart from a few very important ones.
D2 Nov 2018 11:33am, 8 Nov 2018 10,963 posts	0 D2 I have race numbers too, I wrote a short note about the race on the back of each one! This was an idea given to me by a horse riding trainer who suggested I did this to remember horse competitions, its really great to look back on because you think you will remember but the detail fades over time..... except that of course these days you can write a blog.
bigleggy Nov 2018 11:44am, 8 Nov 2018 6,246 posts	0 bigleggy I have a collection of 50p's from the 2012 Olympics. Also, my local parkrun has a resident photographer so I've started collecting photos of my attendance in an album on Facebook ....... does that count or does it have to be a physical thing ?
Velociraptor Nov 2018 11:45am, 8 Nov 2018 39,542 posts	0 Velociraptor Medals Yes! I have them all. The ones that moved house with us are in a bag in the garage, the ones we've collected since are slung on anything capable of holding a medal. Cupboard door handles, mostly. I must get some poles up for them again. I have never kept a race number deliberately.
Northern Exile Nov 2018 11:59am, 8 Nov 2018 4,785 posts	0 Northern Exile I don't really do medals, they tend not to get handed out at fell races. You don't even get one for the UTMB races I do 50ps though bigleggy - have you got all the 2012 ones? Am thinking of the swimming one that had the fault in it, pretty valuable isn't it? I found a badminton 50p just the other day
Goofee Nov 2018 12:05pm, 8 Nov 2018 1,957 posts	0 Goofee I used to have a lovely collection of Smarties tops. This was as an adult...
swittle Nov 2018 12:11pm, 8 Nov 2018 51,182 posts	0 swittle Limited run vinyl [200 to 1000 copies per tune] by 90s - 00s sampling/electro duo, 'Lemon Jelly'. The artwork is a graphic designer's dream, quite literally, and some of the music can be heard as background to nature & historical TV docos.
D2 Nov 2018 12:14pm, 8 Nov 2018 10,964 posts	0 D2 I wonder what drives us to collect "stuff"? This would be a good topic for a thesis, I expect someone has already done one!
McGoohan Nov 2018 12:18pm, 8 Nov 2018 36,463 posts	0 McGoohan chews on unlit pipe I reckon a Desmond Morris type would say it's to do with nest-building, i.e. making a place feel safe and cosy. We aren't being chased by actual sabre-tooth tigers any more so it's a displacement activity for making your cave individually yours. takes out pipe
smash Nov 2018 1:03pm, 8 Nov 2018 546 posts	0 smash Fivers. Any I get are stored away for a rainy day. Bit of a pain when you get thirty quid from the atm and there are 4 fivers in it. Also yarn, medals and numbers, lego, and books.