What else I collect

I've been a collecter since I was a kid. Stickers as a kid, patches while traveling with my family, trying to get a high score on Atarii 2600 games to get into the Activision clubs and collect more patches, bottle caps (which my Mom wisely threw away) and then of course my first truly dedicated, multi-year collection: Baseball Cards.

Amazingly, most of these collections have made it with me over the years.

I had continued to collect during those years the bottles were mostly in boxes. While traveling, I'd find interesting beers and bring some home as my suvenior from our travels. And living in Chico, CA, I also would continue to add to my Sierra Nevada bottles, getting various seasonal beers and pretty much anything that was new or different. That love of Sierra Nevada beer + the awareness amongst friends of my growing bottle collection also helped. Friends who worked at Sierra Nevada would gift me interesting employee or test bottles here and there.

I also worked for a software company that wrote tools for eBay sellers. Which meant I was on eBay a lot, testing things or just contributing to my various collections. I stumbled across a old long neck Sierra Nevada bottle one day and reached out to the seller, since I noticed they were in Chico. I ended up meeting the person, who was managing the estate of her uncle who had passed away. Her uncle happened to have quite the collection of Sierra Nevada bottles, pretty much all from the 80's. Both opened and unopened bottles. This was my first major addition to the collection outside of beers I directly purchased.

Here's a few photos of various other collectons I have... Also find more on my Instagram, yipesft

One of my favorite things to find are dice.
My first real collection as a kid, coke cans.
Casino Chips
Just a sample of a few guys from my minifig collection.
Sticks! From traveling.
I collect all things "Yipe". These are the Yipe zippos.