The topic for this day - collections - didn’t have a big “oh yeah that” thing I collect to serve as a headline. I have been, and am still, fascinated by collections of certain kinds.
Book series as I read them, preferrably the same print run, so the sizes and covers make a coherent whole. Did have quite a few CDs back in the day, but not in a very organized way. All this physical media stuff died off in our home quite a few years back, when we got into a “gaaah too many things kick” and gave almost all of it away. Rather regret downsizing quite so aggressively now though. Having physical representations of books in particular seems like it would be nice now.
I do have a NAS though, and have had one since I was… 17 i think. And digital collections are “free”, and can be as elaborate as desired. I have spent rather a lot of time collecting MP3s and making sure metadata and filenames are correct. Now, I mostly trust the management software to handle the organizing part; but there is still a certain joy in figuring out which versions I want, and fine-tuning the software to suit. I now have more music than I can listen to and more ebooks than I can read.
I almost enjoy the act of organizing collections as much as the collections themselves.
I don’t collect many physical items though. I quite enjoy a good mechanical keyboard, or headphones. I don’t see a need in getting more when what I have is quite adequate, though. I would kind of like a new keyboard, but that is mostly to improve ergonomics, with a more agressive tenting and a thumb sculpt-out. Mini Dactyl style.
There is an argument that I collect tools for hobbies. I have a full set of color pencils, and watercolor pencils, I haven’t used. I do intellectually want to learn to use these things. I don’t take much time to draw at all though, despite being reasonably good at it.
One proper, actual collection I have is my stack of journals going back to 2018. I keep them because I want to; and they might even be useful to a family historian at some point.