Here are some out of ordinary links and description of those hobbies:
1- "Mickey Ivanovitch's "Ripley's Believe it or not" collectors site":
This site is from Mickey Ivanovitch, who is a collecter of "Ripley's believe it or not" bookd and memorabilia. There are over 60,000 items in his private collection. I has the first 2 books that Ripley illustrated and the 2nd series paperback printed in 1933. He has 99% of Ripley's cartoons from 1908 until 1948 and most of the ones published after his death. There is a lot to discover at his site.
Mickey Ivanovitch's "Ripley's Believe it or not" collectors site
2- Fun Band aid site:It is a site about fun band aid collection. The site owner "Jen Hochhauser" has been collecting adhesive bandages since he was a kid. Only decorated or colorful ones interested him, so he has NO plain or flesh colored plasters in the collection. The site describes history of bandaid which might be interesting to know:
"History: The Invention of the Bandaid
In 1920 there was a man named Earle Dickson who had a young wife that was always getting hurt in the kitchen. Every night Earle had to cut up bandages for all the cuts and burns she would get from cooking dinner. So he came up with a way for his bride to cut her own bandages when she was hurt.
A roll of cloth medical tape, a scissor and some cotton were the only tools he needed. Earle placed the cotton along the center of the tape and rolled it back up for his wife to cut for herself as needed. He worked at a company called Johnson & Johnson and they heard about his invention. The first adhesive bandages were handmade and sold this way. Unfortunately they did not sell very well. Not long after, in 1924, Johnson & Johnson produced and sold the first individually wrapped adhesive Band-Aids."
Site link: Fun band aid
3- "Pocket Calendar Collecting site"
It is site from a pocket calendar collector. The site owner has mentioned 10 reasons to collect pocket calendars:
1- Collecting of pocket calendars is a rather original hobby. How many pocket calendars collectors do you know personally?
2- Pocket calendars collecting is very easy. Just tell all your family, friends and other contacts about your passion, and calendars will come to you instantly.
3- This kind of collecting is quite cheap. Most calendars are spread for free, other cost very little.
4- Collecting of pocket calendars contains no risk: your collection will not get stolen, you will not go bankrupt if your collection burns down (it may be of a great value to you, but in money sense such collections hardly have any value). You should not be afraid of falsifications: who is going to falsify pocket calendars?!
5- Pocket calendar is called like this because of its compact size. This is the reason why pocket calendars are easy to store: a photo album can easily fit several hundreds of calendars and a shoe box - thousands of them! Your collection will not take much space.
6- A very attractive aspect of pocket calendar collecting is their great amount. In every land (even where pocket calendars are not the most popular advertising tool) there are hundreds of calendars issued every year. In Russia and Spain one can speak of thousands.
7- If you do not want to collect just anything, you can chose a topic. Pocket calendars are to be found on all possible topics: actors, hockey, trains, Coca-Cola and even beer!
8- Pocket calendars are some kind of reflection of time. With their help you can find out much about political and cultural life of the country, follow the events and see how fashion develops. Time is gone but its reflection is still here with us.
9- Pocket calendars collecting will not only tell you about the past, but also help you to widen your horizon in the present. You can find friends-collectors from all over the world if you don't mind to swap via ordinary mail. By the way, such exchanges are very effective: in an ordinary envelop one can send up to 50 calendars, and consequently, get the same amount back.
10- At last you can order your own calendars to be printed. In this way you can make your dream of an ideal pocket calendar come true. In this way you also make sure you have a rare calendar in your collection. And there are enough copies for exchange.
You can get more links to other site related to pocket calendar collectors.
Site link: Kalendariki.net
4- Collecting Antique Mouse and Rat Traps:
It is another out of ordinary hobby.
Rick Cicciarelli's Website
5- This site is about collection of newspapers from "Sebastian Luning" at Bremen, Germany. He has about 700 entries in collection.
What is collected?
- The collection is restricted to DAILY NEWSPAPERS (that means newspapers which are published at least five days per week).
Weekly newspapers (such as „Die Zeit“) or Sunday-only titles (such as „Bild am Sonntag“) are not included.
- From all valid daily newspapers, only the TITLE PAGE (and associated back page, which if possible is not torn off) are collected.
How did this collection start?
(In his own words)
"As a student I worked as an statistics interviewer on trains allover Germany. I travelled to many places on the German railway system and after a while I thought I, in a way, have to document that I have been in all these places. Obviously, newspapers serve this purpose very well. Later, there were times when I turned into a classical “deskworker” and I had to modify the collection rules. This is when I started pestering my relatives, friends, colleagues etc. with the request to get me newspapers from the phantastic places they all went. Well, the next step is clear, produce this web page and work together with the huge web community."
Site link: The Daily Newspaper Collection
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