> My advice to anyone who is planning on becoming a collector is to collect something small and cheap. You are going to have to store this stuff forever, so a school bus collection is going to fill up the barn pretty darn fast.

An ex-family member of mine collected school buses and Howard is right. Two school buses will fill up your yard and give all of the kids in school plenty to talk about. Note: Using the excuse that you can use the school buses to "haul firewood" is not very convincing.

> Now that I think about it, I had a collection of beach sand from beaches all over the place. I don't collect it any more, and I don't know what ever happened to it, but I'm sure it's worth as much as I paid for it. Nothing.

I collect business cards and they've lost no value, either. My collection is well over 7,000 now.

Ell"Why the school buses were painted WHITE is also beyond me"myruh