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[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've got a few years before 40, and I'm 4/4! Finally, I'm ahead of the curve for once

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tell me about your collection

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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)

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

check, check, check, check

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

And I'm not even 40!

[–] trijste@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago
[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Swap out the pet ashes with my Dad's and I am 100% (I buried my pup and planted a tree there :( )

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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I only have the first item.

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Gotta get on it!

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

If you have a collection of pets ashes, does that count for both? Also, did they have to be my pets?

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

2 out of 4 ain't bad, but there's still a little time left for me.

[–] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes to all of these, although my current friends and wierd collections are both relatively newly acquired

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

nah, buried them all. Gotta dig the full 6 feet trust me

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have a pet buried in the back yard, does that count?

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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 😏

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A weird collection of chronic mental illness, am I right?

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Haha ! Ah ! Fuck 😑

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity what weird things do your kids collect?

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I have 2 kids. But between the two, we collect: Fans, scary jack-in-the-boxes, sprinklers, inflatables, and pencil sharpeners.

I'd fuck with a scary jack in the box collection that sounds neat as hell

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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

No such thing as a weird kids collection.

Whatever a kid is excited about is fuckin awesome man!

edit: as long as something isn't being unalived to add to the collection obvs

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do I win something for achieving it all a few years early?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You do, but it's just another item for your weird collection, that you obtain for yourself, to celebrate.

Source: I bought myself another item for my weird collection, to celebrate this milestone.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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  • 15000+ kms
  • Yes but undiagnosed
  • two but one's not mine
  • shards of flint
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You collect "shards of flint"? Are you a geologist or something?

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

That's cool!

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Hegar@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

I'm sure you will be surprised to learn after reading that picture of success that I am barely even an achiever.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey, there's nothing weird about my collections of vinyl records and German beer steins and uranium glass and sterling silver and quack medical devices and watches and books and pewter and brass and guitars and cameras.

I honestly started off with the intent of being funny, and then I realized how many fucking collections I have, and now I don't really know what to do with myself.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You march your butt down to Lowes to get those big black totes so you can pile your collected items into them and stow them in a neat stack in the garage so that you have space for more collectibles. That's what you do with yourself. Don't forget the label maker!

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Funny you think I could afford to get my pets ashes back from the vet.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't want the ashes. It hurt too much. I also didn't want to be in the room when they administered the shot. My mother got me to do that with one when I was younger. Never again. I say goodbye and that's when I exit and cry.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want my pet to see me as they relax for the last time to comfort them. My pain comes out when they're no longer suffering.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

Watching a kitty go was too much. I'm not going to relive it to describe it. It wasn't comforting him.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I turned 38 today exactly, I checked al the boxes already, I'm prepared.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Cheers mate :)

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[–] pickman_model@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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  • 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!

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do the ashes of friends, and family count?

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[–] kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Damn, I checked the last of those boxes last year and I'm not even 30.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Time to visit my far away friends and start a collecting of their ashes

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