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What is the weirdest thing you collect?

Right now my bedroom window sill has turned into a graveyard of flies. There must be around 20 of them. The fact that I’ve not bothered to clean them up suggests that I’m a complete slob (not impossible, but on the other hand I have been accused of being an OCD neat freak) or that I have unintentionally become a hoarder of dead flies. 

Of course I collect things your average human would, like art, books, music, DVDs, pillows…and also medical apparatus, dried out roses, lunchbox tins, my used glucose monitor strips (I’m a type 1 diabetic) and sooo much more. Out of love or madness, or both, humans are collectors. Collectors of things we need (my mum collects vintage plates) and things we don’t need (like dead flies). 

Some of the strangest collections in the world include Graham Barkers’ navel fluff collection, burnt food, and air sickness bags. What is the weirdest thing you collect? 

(Source: artparasite)

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  1. ulsteros answered: I collect father figures.
  2. 3-methyl-morphine answered: Scraps of paper (on which people have written meaningless things.)
  3. evara-hargreaves answered: Bones, skulls, and I have a few dead chrysalids and crabs too. Hey, all of these are great models to draw!
  4. cinder-rain answered: other people’s IDs. i have about 50 by now.
  5. mothsarefluffy answered: I collect dead insects and they are mostly moths, big or small. I also collect collections. The weirdest collection I have are plastic bags.
  6. sharkington answered: Perfumes and trinket boxes. I suppose those two things are not weird, but they are very frivolous.
  7. icon88 answered: BLACK WIDOWS
  8. erucres answered: I actually never had the need of collecting something…
  9. shirked answered: Bottlecaps purely for the purpose of in case of nuclear war, I’ll have a head start with the new currency.
  10. ursuladecay said: dead butterfliesl i live in the butterfly capital of the world so there’s always live and dead ones around.
  11. doodletome answered: Animal specimens (dead things)
  12. ladeesa answered: i collect stickers. im sure that’s not weird though. i think the “weirdest” thing i collect is vocabulary workbooks from school.
  13. austinthebarbarian said: I pick all my boogers and put them on my wall its called the booger wall ok
  14. englishjakes answered: i collect dead things haha
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