Shit bro that was my 30s
my weird collection was beer and soda equipment, now in my mid 30s I'm thinking taxidermy will be my next hobby.
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This is why Im interested, they have really cool work. I love their rats and mice. But they also do bugs. They offer workshops and shit to.
The logical conclusion of this is a beer tap where the beer comes out of a taxidermied cats mouth. You're never lonely when you're drinking with old friends!
That's not a bad idea, I know a few bars that would absolutely love that shit.
I've got a few years before 40, and I'm 4/4! Finally, I'm ahead of the curve for once
Tell me about your collection
It's instruments... I can play a little bit of all of them, but none of them very well lol. I just like playing with them
An acoustic guitar, an electric guitar (I had 2 electrics, but gave my dad one with a small amp), 2 soprano ukulele's (in case a friend wants to join), a piano keyboard, electric drum kit, harmonicas, a violin (I got it for my wife, but we both like to mess with it) and... I think that's it. I kinda want a bass guitar one day too, just because it looks like fun
Also a small collection of cacti, and a small collection of amateur radio equipment (as well as other electronics that I like to mess with)
46
- several friends 8000 km away, check!
- several, check!
- no ashes, but buried in a special creepy place in the backyard. We used to keep my mom's ashes around until we buried her. Technically I could get her ashes back back. Check!
- several: mineral samples from places I've hiked, books, stamps, old hard disks, DVD and VHS movies, CDs...
I feel accomplished. Thanks people!
check, check, check, check
And I'm not even 40!
Do the ashes of friends, and family count?
Yes, yes they do
Shit
Damn, I checked the last of those boxes last year and I'm not even 30.
Time to visit my far away friends and start a collecting of their ashes
Swap out the pet ashes with my Dad's and I am 100% (I buried my pup and planted a tree there :( )
No pet ashes, but I do have treasured memories of long-gone much-loved pets.
41 and I have the weird collection (pro wrestling memorabilia from before 1980. Toronto specific preferred) But I don’t have the friends or pet ashes, I have jars full of my live parrots feathers, which I guess is another weird collection.
I only have the first item.
Gotta get on it!
If you have a collection of pets ashes, does that count for both? Also, did they have to be my pets?
2 out of 4 ain't bad, but there's still a little time left for me.
No friends but I have multiple weird collections to make up for it
Yes to all of these, although my current friends and wierd collections are both relatively newly acquired
nah, buried them all. Gotta dig the full 6 feet trust me
I have a pet buried in the back yard, does that count?
No, because you have to take your Lil buddy to the vet to get euthanized before you get ashes. Part of the fun trauma of this age is having to be old enough to make that decision. That today is fluffy's last day on earth. Then you get to be guilted by the vet into buying some sort of memorial package in a moment of weakness.
Having your pal turn up toes at home is what gets you a backyard burial. Not awful enough, sorry friend.
Nope we did that. Vet just came to the house.
And yes that was the absolute hardest thing I’ve ever done. We scheduled it on a Friday and had to wait an entire weekend for it to happen on Monday. I am a 54 year old man and I cried like a little baby the whole weekend.
And they did indeed have a brochure of things to memorialize your pet. This was pretty recent so the brochure is actually still on the mantle.
So I’m thinking it does count 😏
Oh, you can have them cremated even if they died peacefully at home, either through a vet or by dealing directly with a pet crematorium. And you can take the body home to bury in the yard even if you've put them to sleep.
Thanks, hippie
A weird collection of chronic mental illness, am I right?
Haha ! Ah ! Fuck 😑
Slight variations (dog's collar, I support my kids weird collections), but based on this list, I'd say I'm a successful 40-something.
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