Only one I'm missing is pets ashes

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

Haha ! Ah ! Fuck 😑

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.

Out of curiosity what weird things do your kids collect?
- I have 2 kids. But between the two, we collect: Fans, scary jack-in-the-boxes, sprinklers, inflatables, and pencil sharpeners.
- 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

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

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.

42

15000+ kms
Yes but undiagnosed
two but one's not mine
shards of flint

Over achiever
- I'm sure you will be surprised to learn after reading that picture of success that I am barely even an achiever.
You collect "shards of flint"? Are you a geologist or something?
- Amateur flint knapper.

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.

You collect collections.
- I dub the Collectorius, the Collections Collector!
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!

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

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.
- 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.
Yeah, no ashes here, just the collar.

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.

What the fuck
- This is why Im interested, they have really cool work. I love their rats and mice. But they also do bugs. They offer workshops and shit to.
  https://prettydeadtaxidermy.com/
The logical conclusion of this is a beer tap where the beer comes out of a taxidermied cats mouth. You're never lonely when you're drinking with old friends!
- That's not a bad idea, I know a few bars that would absolutely love that shit.

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

Happy birthday!
- Cheers mate :)
Congratulations and keep wiggling!
Happy birthday! Well done on the preparation.
- Thanks, to be sure I have multiple weird collections.
I had a friend like you. He was screaming (figuratively) about kids on his lawn in his twenties. You old fuck. Cheers.

46

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!

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

Tell me about your collection
- 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)

Do the ashes of friends, and family count?

Yes, yes they do

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

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

Shit

No pet ashes, but I do have treasured memories of long-gone much-loved pets.

check, check, check, check

And I'm not even 40!

Still working on the third one but realistically by the time I hit 40 we'll definitely be set.

•Internet stranger hugs• for the third one. I already have all boxes checked, but I'm hoping to avoid adding a second dog's ashes for a few more years. My pup already surprisingly old and hasn't died yet, so, if that trend continues, he should live forever.

I only have the first item.

Gotta get on it!

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.

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

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

No friends but I have multiple weird collections to make up for it

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

Thanks, hippie

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

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.
- 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 😏
- 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.