Is this weird?

Weirdness is a personal thing, I personally see you having books because you like them as very sensible. It would be weird to have books if you hated them. People having  lots of stuff can be annoying for people who have to clean away the dust, parents partners servants etc. Skulls would be problematic to some people, depending on the species I suppose. I met someone who had a bowl made from a human skull, he got it from a Tibetan monastery in Nepal. It was eerie. Animal skulls can be very interesting, we had some at school and the dog's nose bones were really delicate and beautiful. You may well mean resin or plaster skulls though, can be really pretty. I don't think they would be weird, but then I'm autistic.

I live for my books. I figure that I'll get time to get round to reading them all one day, even though some of them I know, deep down, I probably never will because my interest has moved on (looks at the works of Philo supporting the monitor). 

Yeah, I know what you mean. i'm kinda the same 

I find a lot of the space race pictures make me cry - a time where *real* people did real things and lived or died doing heroic things.

Pictures like Earthrise and the initials of Gene Cernan's daughter by the moon buggy that will be there for ever.

Not weird at all.

Many people buy books to show off how intellectual and well read they are.  But they never actually open the things and read them.  They are just there for show to visitors.

Other unused collections are more weird.  My mother for example collected shoes.  When she passed we found over twenty pairs of shoes in mint condition in one of the wardrobes, they were neatly stacked in their original boxes, carrier bags with original receipts going back twenty years.  In the real world she was wearing only three pairs of shoes which were totally worn out, being repeatedly repaired.

not at all i collect a lot of things as well. i have some books i havent read in a while & i still keep them. i also collect little monitos(figurines) from the 99 cent store...

no it not,,,,

i have met some else who did that as well.  we met in the same second hand book shops he had an impressive collection  of First editions and then books with particular spines, leather covers, different construction, textures, paper, inks,  and colours.

He gave me a list of things he was looking for and i would tell him the location when i found some opportunities i came across. I havent seen him since i left the city

He knew other like him so its more common than you realise ---- he traded in these books as well 

I agree

Cool - I grew up in the space race - there are soooo many pictures from back then that stir me.     I love artwork that is well done.    Some photographers have done some brilliant work.     I quite like Anime - so stylised!

Some of us are just visual people.

Yeah, that I understand, I just started buying more books about trains, magic, filmmaking, autobiographies, I only really look at the pictures, I love artwork.   

Absolutely not - if something lights you up, it means something to you.

I had to clear my dad's garage after he passed - it was full of 'stuff' that had no value but just 'pleased' him.

I suppose it's the same as people who buy Airfix models just to own them -  never any intention to build them.    It's all very personal.

What do you like about your things?    Colours?    Textures?