Let's say I'm very over 35...
I collect cold war / 50s era "stuff" because of Fallout. I have a big shelf full of it. I have vacuum tube pin straighteners, vacuum tubes, rattlesnake rattles, caps, cold war pamphlets and ephemera, old canteens, bones, old electronics parts, an old wooden microscope case, some military patches, a couple old ammo crates, some stuff from Roswell "alien museum", etc. I collect anything that looks like it could generally fit into the Fallout universe, so my collection spans more decades than the 40s and 50s.
I need to add some old toys - maybe some "space age" robots tin wind-ups.
I may have a problem...
I should take pictures of all my stuff and put it online or something. It's fun for me but it'd be more fun if other people could see it too.
About a week ago I toured the USS Midway. It was hot and cramped and I hit my head on the ceiling pipes a lot.
What I wish I had was a swami napkin holder. I'll probably have to find one at an antique store that doesn't know what Ebay is to get an affordable price...
Does anyone else collect this stuff or am I the only one who went crazy?