WEIRD THINGS KIDS COLLECT

Huffington Post asked parents for the strange things their child collects. Here are some of the responses:
– “Being a parent I thought stepping on LEGO’s was bad. My daughter collects rocks and lays them on her floor.”
– “My son had a meltdown because his sister stepped on his piece of popcorn shaped ‘perfectly like an octopus’ and he was saving it for ‘his collection.'”
– “Consider having kids just to feel the true joy of watching them grow your collection of reusable gift bags”
– “As a kid, I collected unicorn figurines and every single tag off of every piece of clothing I ever had.”
– “When I was a kid my biggest goal in life was to collect a magnet from every state so I could arrange them all on my refrigerator.”
– “My 16-year-old son just showed me his collection of 112 different wet naps that he has collected over the past four years from different places.”
– “Before I had kids I never thought I’d have to say the words, ‘We don’t collect dead skunks to make rugs with’ out loud, yet here we are.”
* Some of these are like origin stories for hoarders.
* And what happens when your kid is in his 30s and moved out of the house, and you toss out his wet nap collection, and the next week someone else’s wet nap collection sells for two million dollars?
* I pretty much just collected Behavior Slips from school.
* My kid collects a lot of grit, and he keeps the collection in his bed.
* PHONE TOPIC: Does your kid have a collection of something odd? Did you as a kid? Do you as an adult?