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[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago (4 children)

No, lots of girls and women like sticks too. This lady is just a weirdo for not liking them.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Maybe she's a pebble or plant person? I think it's like being a cat person, dog person or pet person. Some people like sticks, some people like rocks, some people just like grabbing anything from nature that's cool enough for its catagory.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm a pinecone woman. They taught us to make biodegradable bird feeders with pinecones, peanutbutter, and birdseeds way back in preschool and I've been hooked ever since.

Acorns are cool too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There's a huge (actually enormous) pine tree near my childhood home. My siblings and I used to collect the best pinecones from that tree, every year. I remember one being almost as big as a child's head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yes! My Grandpa used to live out near a pine timber farm and because the pine cones can mess up the harvest rows if they start to germinate, the owners happily let us on the property to walk around and collect cones.

Grandpa just used them as firestarters and kindling, they smell great and they go up a little less violently than gum. We'd take a laundry basket with us on a walk and my brother and I would run around filling it up.

Now when I'm hiking, seeing pine cones on the ground reminds me of winter at grandpa's house. But I don't have a use for them (I've gotten in trouble for attracting too many birds to my unit) so I make a rule to only collect the "baby cones" that is can display next to my sea glass and compost after a while when my shelf fills up - glass is the other thing I'm always collecting when I go for walks. I love sea glass because of Mermaid Princess by Shirley Barber.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

But why like only one when you can like them all? I say that as a woman with both a stick and rock collection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Leaves! Pressed in wax paper and saved in a notebook!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Of all the toys my daughter could play with, she loves swords, bats, brooms, or cool sticks found outside the best.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That's extremely valid of her.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Especially the one in my pants