Some do it out of loyalty to their team, town, or country, others might be driven by the prestige that comes with ownership; either way, people like to collect. And the fields they're interested in can be interesting, to say the least.
So in order to show you just how cool, strange, and even creepy this hobby can be, we at Bored Panda put together a list of the most unique collections we could find on the internet. From pharmacy pills to exit signs, and beyond, continue scrolling to check out the stashes.
#1 I Got Sober During Covid, So All Of My AA Meetings Have Been By Zoom. My Chips Are Mostly A Random Collection Of Round Objects I’ve Found On My Daily Walks. I Just Celebrated 7 Months
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#2 My Hand-Painted Food Rocks
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#3 Authentic Geological Map Of Scotland
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#4 I Spent 4 Years Trying To Grow Salt Cubes At Home. Here Are The Largest And Most Transparent Crystals I've Managed To Grow So Far
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#5 I’m Painting A Collection Of Memes. Here’s The Progress So Far
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#6 This Man’s Collection Of Lost Apple Varieties
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#7 After Years Of Collecting, Problems With Arcade Bylaws, And A Pandemic, I've Finally Quit My Career In It And Opened A Pinball Arcade
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#8 My Coleus Collection
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#9 My Collection Of LEGO Pokémon I've Built
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#10 My Father-In-Law Just Moved To A New House. His Record Collection Required Its Own Move And Two Trucks
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#11 My Grandpa’s Vintage Prank Toy Collection
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#12 January Sea Glass Haul. I May Have A Problem
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#13 "What We Find In Your Tires"
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#14 Helped My Mom Unpack Her Uranium Glass Collection And Install UV Lights
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#15 A Collection Of Little Monster Toys I've Made
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#16 My 9-Year-Old Nephew Has Found Over 1500 "Lucky" Four-Leaf Clovers And Keeps Them In A Big Binder
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#17 Abandoned Collection Of Over 175 Classic Cars In North London
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#18 Rooftop Next To A Schoolyard
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#19 This Car Is Full Of Bumper Stickers That Say Bumper Sticker
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#20 Tools Of My Trade (Hand Embroidery) Turned Into A Small Collection
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#21 Over The Years, I’ve Collected Other People’s Collections That Have Been Thrown Away. Anything People Collect Will Be In These Boxes, Including The Boxes And Drawers
I worked in a rubbish dump for 15 years.
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#22 My Local Pharmacy Has This Huge Container Of Random Pills
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#23 My Wall Mounted Rotary Phone Collection
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#24 Years Ago I Told My Mom That I Liked To Collect Coins. Unfortunately, She Passed Recently, And Upon Cleaning Her House, I Found This
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#25 My Grandpa Kept Almost All Of The Rabies Tags From His Dogs
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#26 What An Impressive Tie Collection He Must Have Had
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#27 My Multilingual Calvin & Hobbes Collection
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#28 Anyone Here Collects Vintage Monster Masks? Here Is A Small Bit Of My Collection
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#29 My Dad's Banjo Collection
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#30 These Layers Are The Seeds I Collected Last Year. They Show A Timeline Of When Different Flowers Grow In My Garden
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#31 My Collection So Far
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#32 Yes, You Can Collect Antique Traffic Signals. My Oldest Dates Back To The Mid-1920s
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#33 In The Year 2000, Aged 13, I Was Immensely Proud Of My Simpsons Collection
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#34 Some People Collect Stamps, Others Collect Fancy Cars. I Collect Thrift Store Ski Jackets. Here Are Some Of My Favorite Finds
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#35 My Wife Has Diligently Kept A Journal Everyday Since 2000
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#36 Fake IDs Confiscated In A College Town
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#37 These Tiny Shells, Each Labeled With Type, Date Collected And Where. Part Of A Massive Multigenerational Shell Collection I’m Sorting Through
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#38 All The Whiskers That I've Collected Over The Years From My Two Cats That Either Broke Off Or Naturally Fell Out
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#39 This Collection Of Rubber Ducks
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#40 My Collection Showing The Evolution Of Portable Data Storage Over The Past 45 Years
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#41 My Dad Passed Away Last Year, And I Was Finally Able To Gather All Of This And Make This Tribute To His 37-Year Career At Kmart
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#42 This Collection Of Glass Eyeballs At The Deutsches Museum, Munich
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#43 My Entire Plant Pin Collection To Date
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#44 My Collection Of Old Snake Bite Kits
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#45 56 Mirrors And Counting. About 2 Years Worth Of Thrifting
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#46 My Collection Of (Mostly) Vintage Uranium Glass
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#47 All These Hair Ties Underneath A Rollercoaster
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#48 These Are Most Of The Exit And Fire Safety Signs I Collected Over The Past 2 Years
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#49 The Amount Of Lost Earbuds My Boyfriend Found Today On One Commercial Plane
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#50 It Just Makes Me Happy To See Things That Are Kind Of "Proof" That I Have Lived, Even If It's Something As Silly And Seemingly Insignificant As Tea Stubs
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