collector - #80

pass the Dutchie... !!! a joint collection

When I was at the college a girl that wanted to be an artist, started to collect all my pictures of personal projects and self pictures.
She filled her walls with my pictures and then asked me to include her in one of my projects.
I took some photos of her standing in from of her collection.

Gideon Weiss must've had one really itchy back when he started collecting back scratchers. His online collection has grown to include 236 of the strangest back scratchers ever!

No kidding… airsick bags! 33-year old Danny Callahan began collecting airsick bags out of desperation when he couldn’t find a souvenir aboard a flight. Now he has over 138 of them and apparently the collection is growing. I just hope they aren’t used bags. **Christoph Vogel of parts unknown has 170 bags… you better get back to collecting Danny! Source: http://totallytop10.com/current-affairs/odd-news/top-10-strange-collections

Helle Jorgensen’s collection of natural sea sponges have been found on the beaches of Newport, Australia over the last 20 years. The avid collector scours the shore for the diverse sea treasures and later dries her findings to retain their shape. The best time to find a new sponge for the collection? Along the shore after a big storm hits. Photo credit: Helle Jorgensen

During her senior year of high school, Cecelia Thomas became curious about cookie cutters while baking a batch of Christmas cookies. Now, her ever-growing collection has over 300 cookie cutters with designs ranging from an antique gingerbread cutter made in the 1800s to a copper UFO from Roswell, New Mexico and everything in between. However, no cutter is too sacred—she says she still uses them all for baking.

Photo credit: Cecelia Thomas

Have you ever seen so many condiment packets at once? Collector Chris Harne's unusual hobby came about when he decided to stop spending money on jetchup. Gathering free condiment packets at every restaurant possible was a slippery slope that led to the madness that is now The Condiment Packet Gallery!

You say belly button lint - Graham Barker says fluff - but we can all agree that this is the world's largest collection of those mysterious fibers from a single person.
He has been collecting his own belly button lint since 1984.

His three chronologically collected bottles are oddly color-coordinated, as if he wore only beige until 1993 and then went through subsequent red and blue periods.
Barker's collection started when he pulled some fuzz out of his navel and wondered how much it would take to stuff a cushion.

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