I have always collected things. When I was small I collected foreign coins, which naturally progressed into notes and old English currency. I even collected old tooth brushes at one, not-too-glamorous stage of my childhood. I never really had a purpose to these collections, other than to pore over them late at night and marvel over the extensive mass of different shapes and colours which I had managed to accrue.
Recently I came across a blog, Poppytalk that had interviewed a couple of collectors called Somethings Hiding in Here from Philadelphia. Their collections are housed in their home and very sensitively displayed.
Poppytalk
Somethings Hiding in Here at Etsy