Does anyone collect old matchbooks?

I would, but I feel like if I did, I might be made fun of. Nerd.

i have my grandfathers. Books from all over the world from the 30s-70s. I have seen places from Japan, China, Africa, Europe.

I have a good size collection of them from my parents. They collected Vegas stuff from the 70's to the 90's. I really like the buttons I have for all of George Burns' birthday parties

Post on an online message board about them

I mean, why collect historical stuff at all?

I have an old glass milk jug that I have thrown them in over the years.

My grandpa used to have a shite-ton of them in a box. Was cool to look through as a kid.

I pick up packs when I can just to light in the bathroom to kill the shite smell.

We have plenty of matches in our house
We keep them on hand always
Currently our favourite brand
Is Ohio Blue Tip
Though we used to prefer Diamond Brand
That was before we discovered
Ohio Blue Tip matches
They are excellently packaged
Sturdy little boxes
With dark and light blue and white labels
With words lettered
In the shape of a megaphone
As if to say even louder to the world
Here is the most beautiful match in the world
It’s one-and-a-half-inch soft pine stem
Capped by a grainy dark purple head
So sober and furious and stubbornly ready
To burst into flame
Lighting, perhaps the cigarette of the woman you love
For the first time
And it was never really the same after that

All this will we give you
That is what you gave me
I become the cigarette and you the match
Or I the match and you the cigarette
Blazing with kisses that smoulder towards heaven