Are humans natural collectors?
People are known to collect antiques, stamps, coins, spoons, teapots, dolls, stuffed animals, real animals, books, old farm equipment, automobiles, autumn leaves, pictures and some people even collect spouses. Spouse collecting, unlike other collections, is usually limited to one at a time.
Wikipedia has a list of common collections which lists some things that I find rather odd to collect. An example is tea bags as a collection, are they used tea bags? Maybe the tea bags go with the sugar that some people collect from restaurant tables.
What do we do with all we collect?
In my experience, my collections force me into one additional collection, a collection of dust.
Why do we collect? Is there satisfaction in having something unique?
I can't say that is the answer, since I have collected the fifty state quarters over the past ten years, and my collection is hardly unique. I know of someone who has multiple collections of the fifty state quarters, each collection of quarters from a specific minting location. That is dedication to a collection. I felt good just getting the state quarter, I didn't think about it being minted in Denver, San Francisco or Philadelphia. My collection is sitting on a shelf and is worth about $12.50 on a good day.
What do you collect?
(Image used by permission: "framing hammer collection 2007" by chazferret)
I've just finished watching the video on collections and it gave me an idea that maybe a friend of mine who has a room or two opening up at home soon, may want to think about collecting things. Hey maybe SR should get busy making lots of jewelry. You have room to store it now.
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