Collections

Over the years I have collected various things, some of them more random then others. Stuffed animals, pokemon cards, socks, polished rocks, and miniature bears are some of the more common ones. I also collected napkins for a while and many of you know of my firehydrant picture collection.
When I was probably about 12 I took my napkin collection and made them into a series of collages that we hung in our finished attic for a while. Later we threw them away.
I know other people who have collections of coins, stamps, nativity sets, elephants, cabbage patch dolls, lego sets, decorative plates, etc.
Frequently collection items seem to be fairly useless, at least in the quantity they are collected although some have monetary value. And it can be almost disturbing when there are so many of whatever it is that they fill an entire room (like a room devoted to cabbage patch dolls... yes I have seen one of these). However it seems like the benefit f many collections, especially those that aren't coins or whatever, is that the objects are usually connected with a place or a person. Really they aren't collecting plates, they are collecting memories of places or people etc. which is actually pretty cool, and in my opinion that makes for a lot more entertaining decor then generic cutsey decorations.