When I was young, I used to collect thimbles. Pretty ones and memento ones. They were small and easy to display and reminded me of places I'd visited. As I got older, I turned those thimbles upside down and started collecting shot glasses from places I visited. Fairly inexpensive mementos but they took up more space so I eventually stopped collecting those. And went bigger. Lol. I have a rather large collectible Barbie collection as well as several 8" and 16" Madame Alexander dolls and a few Hummels. I bought most of them before I had kids and have only added a select few over the years due to space and $$$. Forever and ever, though, I have collected sterling silver charms, also as mementos or related to interests. They are fairly inexpensive and take up very little space.
My dad has a huge collection of pocket watches and gingerbread clocks (and some tractors) and my mom has a large Santa collection so I guess it's in my DNA.
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