Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.
Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.
Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.
Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.
Collecting military surplus/old random military shit. Helmets, great coats, radios, a field phone, ww2 machete. Ya get the idea.
what do you do with it though? Just have your own small museum?
Basically, if its either broken but good enough condition I may restore it and find a niche use for it. The helmets are mostly used for gags with my friends and the great coat is new enough that I may actually use it if its windy enough.
Check out the Discovery Channel tv show, Combat Dealers. I’m guessing basically that – learning old history, topping one’s collection with the most obscurest\rarest item, etc.
That’s cool! Where do you get these?
Sometimes military surplus stores, sometimes random vendors at a place near me, sometimes at estate sales, sometimes at yard sales.