do you collect anything? for yourself or for your kids?

when i was younger i kept a collection of my ticket stubs...i still try to hold on to them...i collected clowns too. I collect disney cars for my son =)

I guess holiday cards. LOL
FOr my children I get their holiday cards from me and my husband and I am making a memory book along with pictures of that holiday . When they are done with high school I am going to give it to them .

hey, i should do that...thats a great idea. I'm a big time hoarder when it comes to hanging on to cards and letters

LOL . My husband thinks Im nuts but my sister and I are HUGE scrap bookers LOL

My son gets a rock from everywhere we go as a family. Not from a giftshop but the nicest one he can find on the ground. He's almost 4 and he cantell you where each one came from

I have a fairie for every year I've been clean since...uh...crap I don't remember, that's why I keep buying these stupid fairies. I think it's been something like 7 years, or wait...8? Maybe? Anyway, I try to get one every August, you know those pretty porcelin ones, and I date it and stuff.

My mom uses the front of old Christmas cards as tags in following years, she cuts them out with pretty scissors and ties them onto the presents. Just a thought...lol.

Books. Our house looks like a library. I especially like leather bound classics.

OMG. Where can I begin? Yes I do!! I have a huge, huge Angel collection. People think I'm an Angel or a real genuine Barbie or Both! So my Angels.. I Love Hello Kitty! My passion is old Classic & Muscle Mopar Cars! I Love them! Like 'Cudas, Challengers, Road Runners. Chargers Etc.. I even do a Cool All Mopar Christmas Tree! I Love old linens! I love old cooking utensils, Coca Cola items. My house is collections.. Not bragging! Just really explaining! I used to collect Owls.. Now they're so calling me Back! I Love owls!! My Kristin Dreamsicles collection must be 80 or more! Seraphin angels & snow babies Etc.. Madame Alexander Dolls! People give me things like Rupensel to represent my long blonde hair! Most of all I collect love! Meaning I love people & the true meaning of friendship makes me so happy! I also do like 8-9 Christmas Trees if health & electricity permits! DH & I met on Christmas eve when I was 16. We do neat decor.

Anything & everything with sentimental meaning. That includes whatever the children can look at or hold to have a memory of something from their lives as their children with me in my home.
You see, my mom died when I was 11 years old and us kids were torn apart from different families, abuse, and estranged by blood relatives. We had no connection to our mom all our lives and only had precious few memories in our minds to lean on, which is fine until you grow older and have memory problems and things become distorted.
A child at any age wants a physical link to the parent they loved and lost but were denied. For all our lives we have always felt like lost orphans, even from each other, and I don't want my children to ever go through any of that.