Anyone collect found objects?

[Jupiter]

Last summer I worked at a family camp near yosemite and I would wander around after work and pick up anything interesting that I found. I still occasionally pick up interesting or shiny objects I find laying around. Earrings, pennies, part of  a sunglasses frame. I found lots of feathers and fishing gear, left behind toys and other odd bits last summer


If you do collect found object what kind of things do you pick up?

[gemini_pony]

Pretty much anything that catches my eye! Im a pack rat ohhhh shiny things!!

[hyenacub]

I do that too!  LOL  What is broken or unusuable, I throw away or recycle.  Other stuff I keep and use or make something out of it or just collect it.

[BlackCurtains]

Bones, fossils, teeth and horns Every time I take a walk through a forest I seem to find something

[hyenacub]

When we had to live in a hotel for a few weeks once, I used to go all around the grounds and pick up...pencils.  Those little, short ones you get to use on a gold course.  They had the hotel's name on them.  I got at least thirty of them.

[GazeboMouse]

Fossils, sherds of 17-20 century china, plus a few random marbles over the years.

[bagheera86]

i use to find things all the time as a kid, sadly when my collection go too big.. my dad threw it out =-=;

Guess a bag of quartz was the last straw lol.

[Eviecorn]

I don't know if it counts under "found objects", but my wallet is full of fortunes from cookies, most of them not opened by me.  I'll pick up ones people discard as well.  I plan on making a decoupage piece with them when I get enough for a big canvas.

[Kiwi]

I do to a point - usually something interesting or a neat rock or such (the rock thing I got from my mom). I have one rock that is really flat and smooth, at first I thought it was a penny one of my favs, it's so unique.

Earrings and personal stuff like that I usually leave alone though. But a neat pendant or such may catch my eye.

[kaoskat]

I collect messed up pennies. Does that count?

[fiwen30]

I used to collect interesting stones and pebbles when I was little, I'd come home with pockets full of them! Also shards of pottery that were plentiful in our flowerbeds, feathers, shells, bits of sheep's wool...

[melodys_angel]

If I see something interesting, I will pick it up^^  Shells and neat rocks/stones, broken up jewlery (though if it has value id turn it in knowing someones probably looking for it), coins...things like that.

[Koudoawaia]

When I was in elementary school, I would pick out the most interesting looking pieces of gravel from the playground. I know how that sounds but there were some pretty ones. I think I still have that orange tube somewhere too.

[Gingerbread]

Shells, stones, feathers, bones, fossils, skulls, teeth, seeds, nuts...anything like that! My house is full of bits and bobs

[invaderhorizongreen]

well on our high school senior picnic i found an abandoned plush reptar from the cartoon rugrats. I took one look at him and took him home and cleaned him. I know he is around somewhere so i will post a pic sometime.