What is your Magic Number?

[MrRoland]

Long Gone staring William Peterson and Virginia Madsen before they became stars. A rowdy baseball comedy that is one of the best movies you've probably never seen. An early HBO film to which the orignal film elements were lost in a fire. I'm on my 4th VHS copy--they're getting scarce and expensive!

I remember this movie and agree wholeheartedly. It was a great baseball movie.

[MrRoland]

I had always heard that 3 is the magic number...

Most of these are just guesses. I've tried to do a count in the past but every time I lose interest. Rather be reading, watching and listening than counting.

CDs around 3000
LPs - in the 500-750 range
DVDs around 150
Books excluding comic floppies - somewhere in 1500-2000 range
old cassette tapes 50 or so
no 8 tracks

[Dave1442397]

I must have well over 5,000 books in the house. Movies, probably at least 500, not that I ever look at many of them twice, so I stopped keeping them. E-books, who knows, many, many thousands, taking up more than 6Gb on my hard drive.

[Tommy]

I am just short of 500, excluding preorders.

Now does that include the 100 different variants you have of WOOL?

[Tommy]

Don't you remember school house rock? Every Saturday morning during cartoons.That was how I learned multiplication.Ahh...how I miss the late 70's.

That was a little before my time but now I totally feel silly referencing something I didn't realize I was referencing

[Tommy]

I remember this movie and agree wholeheartedly. It was a great baseball movie.

Cool, can't wait to watch it, if I don't see it tomorrow, it will be this weekend hopefully

[Tommy]

I had always heard that 3 is the magic number...

Most of these are just guesses. I've tried to do a count in the past but every time I lose interest. Rather be reading, watching and listening than counting.

CDs around 3000
LPs - in the 500-750 range
DVDs around 150
Books excluding comic floppies - somewhere in 1500-2000 range
old cassette tapes 50 or so
no 8 tracks

I must have well over 5,000 books in the house. Movies, probably at least 500, not that I ever look at many of them twice, so I stopped keeping them. E-books, who knows, many, many thousands, taking up more than 6Gb on my hard drive.

WOW! Finally, someone beat my number of books

[paperdragon]

These number are best estimates as actually counting them would be even crazier.

Books around 4000, around 3200 of them being paperbacks. Sci fi, fantasy, military history, and horror.
comics about 25,000
original art 600 pieces mostly comic book art but a bunch of book covers, horror, sci fi, fantasy. Here is a link where most of them are in an online gallery. http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=301

I'm just a blue collar guy, never had much money. I spent my early adult hood haunting second hand stores, garage sales and flea markets scrounging for cheap books. Back in the pre-ebay years you could get paperbacks for a dime and hardbacks for a quarter to fifty cents. The last 20 years I have had no rent or mortgage payments so a fair amount of the money I earned was disposable income. Never had any parasites(kids) which I do like, and have been married the last 22 years(this week) to my lovely wife, who patiently allows my madness to continue.
Two bedrooms are full to bursting and I can no longer find space for book shelves in the rest of the house, most of which the shelves are double rowed with books. I am considering building a large room to be the library onto the house, but that is still a pipe dream at the moment.

[Tommy]

These number are best estimates as actually counting them would be even crazier.

Books around 4000, around 3200 of them being paperbacks. Sci fi, fantasy, military history, and horror.
comics about 25,000
original art 600 pieces mostly comic book art but a bunch of book covers, horror, sci fi, fantasy. Here is a link where most of them are in an online gallery. http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=301

I'm just a blue collar guy, never had much money. I spent my early adult hood haunting second hand stores, garage sales and flea markets scrounging for cheap books. Back in the pre-ebay years you could get paperbacks for a dime and hardbacks for a quarter to fifty cents. The last 20 years I have had no rent or mortgage payments so a fair amount of the money I earned was disposable income. Never had any parasites(kids) which I do like, and have been married the last 22 years(this week) to my lovely wife, who patiently allows my madness to continue.
Two bedrooms are full to bursting and I can no longer find space for book shelves in the rest of the house, most of which the shelves are double rowed with books. I am considering building a large room to be the library onto the house, but that is still a pipe dream at the moment.

Cool! thanks for the link, that is a lot of everything! Definitely time for you own Book/Man cave

[srboone]

Three is the magic number!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0

[Tommy]

Three is the magic number!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0

Sweet! I remember seeing some of that on "I Love the 70's" on VH1, very cute

[srboone]

This one was my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0

[srboone]

This was second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ikO6LMxF4

[Joe315]

Now does that include the 100 different variants you have of WOOL?

lol!

[Theli]

Anyone else here collect comics? I probably have a thousand or so and 100 graphic novels. They are all over the board, a lot of horror comics and DC super hero, but the odd marvel and crime fiction mixed in. I never really got into the westerns or war comics.