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You never know who hoards anything, but look at strange collections always interesting. After all, how much effort and work people put into finding the millionth Pepsi cap. But people are sincerely happy about such finds. It’s these kind of crazy collectors that we’ll be talking about.

Belgian resident Celine Corent is hoarding stuffed pandas. And not only them, but in general everything that has at least some relation to pandas. The passion began when in 1978 her husband, who was traveling in Italy, brought her a toy panda as a gift. The hobby is not meaningless - Celine is going to bequeath the collection to sick children.

Celine Corent shows off a stuffed toy from her panda collection

Harry Burrows from Lapal, Halesowen (UK), collects vacuum cleaners and has already collected 40 of them. I became addicted to the device when my parents turned on the vacuum cleaner, hinting that it was time for their son to go to bed. Since then, Harry has been wondering how vacuum cleaners are connected to his life. He spends his pocket money and buys rare models that are not popular on the market.

Harry Burroughs and his collection of vacuum cleaners

Dick Falensky is a golf fan. He brought 36,000 golf balls from different countries peace. Lives in Pennsylvania, USA. He has been collecting his collection for 50 years. His list includes balls used by Bill Clinton and basketball player Michael Jordan.

Dick Falensky and his collection of golf accessories

Margaret Tyler is an honorary devotee of royal life. She not only believes that living like a king is necessary, but that it is very cool. She accumulates things that remind her of such a life, as if partaking of royal regalia. Her collection includes life-size duke and duchess mannequins and a stained glass window that once belonged to Princess Diana. The old woman even converted her house in the Wembley area into a boarding house so that the house would resemble a royal one.

Margaret Tyler and the Royal Family's Trinkets

Hannah Walker is seven years old. Lives in Hampshire, UK. One day a girl started collecting beautiful erasers, and then her aunt found out about it and gave her her collection, which she had also collected since childhood. Some of the hundreds of erasers are still in their wrappers, and the total value of the collection is this moment is 2000 dollars. Some are truly collectible and dated back to 1986, for example, and look like toys or dolls.

Hannah Walker and erasers

Lucky J. Meisenheimer entered the Guinness Book of World Records for his collection. He collected 10,000 yo-yos. Lives in Orlando, Florida. He even published a guidebook “for those obsessed with yo-yos.”

Lucky J. Meisenheimer and his yo-yo collection

Collector Jian Yan from Singapore collects dolls, mostly themed. He buys them at auctions and all over the world. In the photo he is holding an Osama Bin Laden toy. In total, his collection includes 6,000 Barbie dolls and 3,000 other dolls. His collection filled all the free spaces on the terrace in the house.

Jian Yang collects dolls

Steve Sansweet lives in California and is a Star Wars fan. Steve is also the head of a museum that makes no profit at all, but generates constant interest. He has already collected 300,000 items that are somehow related to the film. There is even a miniature copy spaceship under the command of Han Solo.

Steve Sansweet collects Star Wars paraphernalia

Yvette Dardenne from Belgium loves decorated tin boxes for tea, chocolates and sweets. She has already collected 57,600 containers. The 76-year-old lady is proud of her collection: there are specimens that depict world events, scenes from everyday life, and portraits of strange personalities of the 20th century.

Yvette Dardenne collects tin boxes

Barney Smith from Texas worked as a plumber all his life, and in honor of this he collected 1,100 toilet seats. He decorates each one with an embroidered leather or rag shield. It took 40 years to create the collection. He keeps his collection in a garage, which has also become a local landmark and museum.

Barney Smith shows a toilet seat

For 26 years, Perth Australian Graham Barker has been saving fluff from his umbilical cavity in jars, which he carefully shaved and rolled into pellets. Already collected 22.1 grams.

Perth Graham Brecher stores umbilical fluff in jars

Wang Guohua from China collects cigarette packs and has already collected 30,000 pieces. The entire collection is housed in his apartment, in one of the rooms.

Wang Guohua collects cigarette packs

Heinrik Kath from Cuxhaven, Germany, collects mugs, of which he has more than 22,000. His collection includes many beer mugs, although he does not drink beer at all. He began collecting his collection in 1997.

Heinrich Kath and his mugs

Dimitris Pistiolas collects video cameras and lives in Athens. I have accumulated more than 1000 pieces.

Dimitris Pistiolas and video cameras

Pam Barker from Leeds, UK, collects owls. Her collection of almost 20,000 copies was included in the Guinness Book of Records.

Pam Barker and her owls

A very tasty collection from Ron Hood from Lewiston, Scotland. He collects edible sweet toys. He converted the basement of his house into a museum, which already contains 3,000 toys. Ron thinks that's not enough. How he keeps visitors from trying to eat it all is a mystery.

Ron Hood and his sweets

Sharon Badgley collects Santa Clauses, of which there are more than 3,000. It took her almost a week to collect all the toys from the collection in one room.

Sharon Badgley and many, many Santas

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The world of collecting is amazing because it knows no boundaries or rules. Today, sometimes unimaginable objects or things are collected. The usual sets of stamps, coins or awards have long since taken second place. Would you like to know about modern hobbies? Then we offer a rating of the most unusual collections in the world.

10. Things from the hockey field

The Prague resident's collection contains a variety of items: lighters, keys, coins and other items. These things are completely different in application, so it becomes unclear on what basis the Czech selects them. Turns out, unusual collector was a hockey referee and from the time of his work began to collect objects that fans threw on the field.

9. Beer mugs

Where else if not in Germany can you collect such glasses? Today, Heinrich Kath's collection numbers 20,000 mugs. For his family, collecting items is a common thing. For example, Heinrich's brother collects replica watches.

8. Newspapers

A resident of Novosibirsk came up with an interesting hobby. He collects newspapers that have the word “truth” in their titles in any language. His curious collecting led him to the fact that today the collection contains 800 newspapers from around the world.

7. Plush story

Pam Barker is a serious owl collector. As a result, such a hobby has led to the fact that plush creatures are pushing the owner out of the house. More than 18 thousand specimens of owls have their own home, Pam has allocated several rooms for them. Thanks to her hobby, the British collector got into the Guinness Book of Records.

6. Handcuffs

This unusual collection belongs to Chris Gower, who lives in England. It contains more than 530 items. The handcuffs were made in different time and were used in different countries of the world. The collection also includes modern products.

5. Cheat sheets

Working as a teacher, you can not only teach reason and give grades. For example, school teacher A. I. Smirnov went further and began not only to confiscate cheat sheets, but also to save them. As a result, over 30 years of experience, the teacher managed to collect over 6,000 copies, which he stores in his albums.

4. Beach sand

The Italian Cundo Nebuloni became interested in unusual collecting. Traveling around the world, he collects sand from beaches and brings it home. The collection includes 300 jars containing grains of sand water world. Since in Lately Since many followers of such collecting appeared, a special name was invented for such people - arenophiles.

3. Illegal collection

Guy Van Keer only person, who was not detained by the police for false documents. A resident of Belgium has become interested in collecting: he keeps identity cards. The collection includes over 4 thousand documents from different countries. It contains not only modern crusts, but also documents from the 17th century.

2. Toilet lids

American Barney Smith not only collects these strange objects, but also opened a small museum in his garage. There are over 800 copies in it. Gathering began with a passion for hunting. Returning from another trip, Barney brought back deer antlers. After thinking for a long time about how to hang them, he placed them on the toilet lid. The American liked the result so much that he replaced his hobbies of hunting with collecting plastic products.

1. Celebrity hair

The ranking of the most unusual collections in the world is completed by the strange hobby of John Reznikoff, who lives in Connecticut. Each piece of hair has a document confirming that it belongs to a distinguished owner. The collection includes curls of Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein and others famous personalities. How John obtained the hair specimens is anyone's guess.

Despite the strangeness of some collecting activities, it should be noted that this hobby is not for all people. Hobby requires patience, passion and faith in your collection.

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There are many collectors in the world. People collect coins stamps, car models and books. But all this can be said about ordinary collectors. In our case, everything is more complex and interesting: from on-board hygiene bags to burnt food. We continue - the strangest collections and collectors:

13. Asphalt

It turns out there is an asphalt museum. Located in Sacramento, California. It was founded in 1991 by students at the University of Colorado. The collection contains “copies” from both famous roads USA - Route 66, Highway 1, and from ancient European roads from the times of the Roman and Byzantine empires.

14. Soviet calculators

Russian Sergei Frolov has a fantastic collection of over 150 calculators made in the Soviet Union:

In addition, Sergei collects antique computers, watches and even slide rules.

15. Hot sauces

Vic Klinko lives in Arizona, he collects various hot sauces. His collection includes about 6 thousand different jars and bottles from all over the world. The crown jewel of his collection is a rarity called Blair's 16 Million Reserve - the hottest sauce in the world!

16. Penises

Sigurdur Hjartarson, former teacher from Iceland is passionate about a very strange hobby - he collects the penises of various animals. He has about 300 penises in his collection. different representatives fauna, including whales, seals and many land mammals. Hjartarson abruptly stops all grins directed at himself, explaining that there is no eroticism here - there is only purely scientific interest.

17. Barbie dolls

Collecting Barbie dolls is nothing unusual for girls, but this is a special case. Barbie dolls are the basis of the collection of an adult man named Jiang Yang. He is from Singapore and is 33 years old. Young has more than 6 thousand Barbie dolls in his collection, although it is not the largest in the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a woman named Bettina Dorfman has the most Barbies - about 15 thousand.

18. Toilet lids.

Barney Smith, a cheerful Texas plumber, collects toilet lids. Over the past 30 years, Barney has collected about 700 very interestingly designed lids. Barney isn't just funny - he's also adventurous. Barney is the owner of the Toilet Seat Art Museum! There are about a thousand copies on display there.

19. Chewing gum.

Barry Chapel decided to collect gum one day out of boredom during a long international flight. Collecting chewed gum from under the seats, he rolled them into balls (hello to the collector), after which he came up with the idea of ​​collecting them. During his life, he collected more than 95 thousand (!) pieces of chewed gum and rolled them into a huge ball.

20. Hamburgers

One day, at another eatery, Matt Malgram bought two hamburgers. He ate one, kept the other for some reason. A year later, he was surprised that the left hamburger not only did not disappear, but also retained its taste and color. Encouraged, he began collecting hamburgers, which he labeled by year of purchase.

21. Mermaid tails

People love to collect various things. Children collect stamps, toys, chips and much more. But over time, everything changes. Some stop doing it, and some start from more serious and unusual things. For many of them, this becomes the meaning of their whole life. This article presents 10 of the most amazing collections.

• A Belgian woman named Celine Cornet is very passionate about her collection, which consists of 2,200 toy pandas. At the end of the 1970s, her husband brought back from a business trip a souvenir in the form of a panda, which became the first specimen in the woman’s huge collection.
• Who doesn't love sauces? Definitely not Vic Klinko. If big sauce lovers store up to 20 different bottles in the refrigerator, then Vic has already collected 6 thousand types. He has been collecting them for 17 years. Thanks to his work in a restaurant, he regularly learns about new products and immediately buys them.

  

• Little Harry Burroughs, who is not even ten years old, loves vacuum cleaners. He managed to assemble more than 40 different models. It all started with early childhood– when Harry couldn’t sleep, his parents turned on the vacuum cleaner, which helped the child fall asleep quickly. He buys rare models of vacuum cleaners with his pocket money.

  

• The Gibbins family regularly adds to their collection of sex dolls, the number of which has exceeded 240. Such dolls attracted my husband as a child, and even then he realized that he wanted to collect huge collection. First unusual doll he purchased it for $4,000. It was not easy for the wife to come to terms with her husband’s hobby, but she still had to. Over their lifetime, they spent about 160 thousand dollars on this collection.

  

• Barker Graham boasts a very unusual collection of belly button fuzz. He began collecting it in his youth, when he became interested in how much cannon could be collected from a navel in 30 years of life. He has been collecting it for 26 years. He replenishes the collection every day before going to the shower. It is worth noting that not long ago one of the museums acquired the rights to the Barker collection for a lot of money.
• Barry Chappell always dreamed of quitting smoking, and one day he decided to try to break the habit with the help of nicotine chewing gum. While on the plane, Barry did not have the opportunity to throw away the gum, and at that moment he wanted to collect one large piece of gum from hundreds of small ones. Over the course of 6 years of struggle with smoking, he managed to assemble a huge ball of chewing gum, reaching one meter in diameter.

  

• Little Hannah Walker, who is only 7 years old, collects erasers. Her aunt gave her more than one and a half thousand different erasers, which was the beginning of collecting. All erasers cost over two thousand pounds.

  

• A Chinese man named Jian Yang collects children's dolls. His collection consists of 9 thousand different dolls that many girls would like to receive.

  

• Fan " Star Wars» collected more than 300 thousand items related to this series of films. Moreover, he even opened his own museum, which displays the most outstanding objects. However, this museum is not popular.
• Belgian Yvevet Dardenne collects various iron boxes. Many of them are related to significant events in the world. At the moment, she has collected almost 60 thousand types of boxes.

  

People know how to surprise each other. This is especially true for different collections. The choice of a collecting item is determined by the character and interests of the person. As a rule, people begin collecting their first collections in childhood, which in the future sometimes becomes an integral part of their adult life.