do your kids have " collections"?

[binny]

Kaylee is my "collector" and not just of certain things.... it really has no rhyme or reason lol.


She has "bag" a rather large bag at that that she drags ( its way to heavy to carry) behind her everywhere in the house. I finally laid down the law and told her that Bag has to stay home at all times when we leave the house, but its getting riduculous! Bag somehow winds up on the bed next to her, follows her to the TV room, and has its own special place (under the coffee table but within site) while we eat.

What is in Bag you might ask?
well lest see, she dumped it the other day to find something. A jewelry box that she got for Christmas, some barbie clothes, various hair pretties, some coins, more of her little plastic characters, her purse which has its own assortment of things, a sock only one, a Princess playhouse complete with characters and clothing and the list goes on... this is NOT a small bag!!!


Please tell me she'll grow out of this? I hate to think of her carrying this down the aisle on her wedding day!


Do your kids have collections?

 

[floridaminnie]

My four year old has a couple of bags like that.

 

[Serena]

My girls have all kinds of collections. All stored in boxes, or such.

 

[Mishetta]

My DS8 has a rock collection but it's in his room (thankfully!)

 

[aprilgail2]

Kasey has a super ball collection, she has over 180 of them..everywhere we go that has them in machines she has to get some. She has a rack of bins and one whole bin is filled with them.....you can look atthem but dont dare touch them LOL!!

 

[mudnuri]

oh man! DD7 is my pack rat! She keeps EVERYTHING! She wanted to keep her bday cards in her room a few years back, and I let her instead of putting them in her bin in the basement...well, she kept them, IN THE ENVELOPES!....same thing with xmas, valentines etc..

She has a collection of rocks right now in one of her drawers, along with a 'band collection'....this includes an old milk jug, coffee can, cool whip container, and a few rain sticks she made out of paper towel rolls, and macaroni...

She keeps EVERYTHING! After xmas when I opened up all her bratz and barbie dolls, I wanted to throw away the boxes, she threw a fit, and kept them, they all go back in their boxes with their clothes and stack in her closet.....she's anal about keeping stuff!

Brandy

 

[disykat]

My eight year old has lots of "bags". He started asking for luggage for his birthday and Christmas at about age 5. He has a little rolling suitcase and several carry on bags as well as every backpack he's ever owned (I think he finally got rid of Winnie the Pooh)and a fannypack. My sister is a travel agent so he also has a collection of freebee bags from cruise lines etc. and stuff from her travels. Even the zippered coconut (my personal favorite "bag") is stuffed full of precious things. Every time we pass a luggage display or a backpack display he has to stop and ooh and aah over everything.

Now he is getting really interested in plastic storage containers and likes to browse the rubbermaid/sterlite isle. You'd think with these interests, he'd be highly organized - HA! We have to go through his collections regularly - most of it appears to be little wadded up pieces of trash. At least now that he's older he willingly throws the trash away!

My 11 year old has a real collection - pez despensers.

 

[CEDmom]

My DD (almost 4 1/2) loves to collect things. On most days her Tinker Bell backpack is teeming with stuff. I often find small canned goods and boxes of jello and such mixed in with her stuff. Her most favorite collections though are of things she finds outside (leaves, rocks, acorns etc). After cleaning up untold numbers of crushed leaves and hatched acorns (yes, bugs like to lay eggs in them) this collection is kept in a bucket outside. I know, I know mean mommy .

 

[Kitty 34]

My oldest DS (23) still has his collection of comic books but it's my middle DS (16) who has done the most collecting!! He has collected Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Beanie Babies to name a few! His most impressive collection is his coin collection. He started going to flea markets at 10 to buy coins. It's the only collection he still adds to now.

 

[Karel]

My daughter is a bag lady. And one of her friends sisters who used to come over a lot to play was a bag lady too.

She can never find anything because it's tucked away in some pocketbook or backpack.

And she collects everything too. She's very into cardboard boxes - everytime we empty a juice box carton, she drags it off. Also, she has a large box of rocks.

She also loves coupons from the grocery store, in those little machines on the shelves. She'll run around and collect them all to bring home where they sit in piles till I throw them out.

I'm hoping someday she can make a career out of this. What career calls for bag lady services?

 

[cruisnfamily]

My DS8 collects Snapple caps. The ones off the ice tea. They have unusual facts on the back and he loves them. He also plays all kinds of imaginary games with them. He must have hundreds!

 

[pjlla]

Wow.... one more parenting thread where I find I'm not alone! We keep telling DD (8 1/2) that when she grows up she is probably going to live in a run-down apartment full of cats and trash!! She is the ultimate pack-rat!! She likes to keep the boxes that all new toys come in (I routinely have to sneak them out to the trash or they would take over the house!).

Every time we go out to eat and the kids get those paper placemats they want to keep them, even when they get food on them!

She never wants to part with outgrown clothes (I sneak them out and give them to a church friend with a younger daughter).

I don't usually battle her about these things because I know I have to "choose my battles" and I figure I'd rather win the more important ones, but sometimes the sight of her bedroom causes me palpitations.................P

 

[binny]

OMGOSH Im so glad Im not alone! I was really begining to wonder! My mom swears that she will have one arm longer than the other LOL



What is the fasination here do you suppose?


I mean I can understand the collecting of groups of things... but this no rhyme or reason bag really has me stumped!

 

[BethanyF]

My son loves to keep his stuff in bags. Although, he diesnt drag them around as much as he used to. I have lost count of how many Disney Store lunch bags he owns, as well as backpacks, tote bags, plastic bags from stores and so on. I do toss the plastic bags whenever I find them empty.
Also whenever he gets something new he has to sleep with it under his pillow until the next new thing comes along. DVD's, videos, books, whatever; it all gets a turn under his pillow.
I have given him a couple small treasure shests that he uses for little stuff. In one he has various pictures of Mickey that he has cut out of magazines or newspapers. In the other one he currently has all his Valentines and thank you notes from his teachers (for Christmas gifts).
As far as collections, Disney movies and Mickey Beanies.

 

[MOMTOMOOTOO]

I also have a 4 y/o rat pack. She stuffs eberything into bags and is always carrying some sort of bag around. If anything is ever missing, the first place we look is in Anna's collection of bags....it almost always turns up

 

[TINKTWINS]

Hey, we all have purses dont we? What junk do you carry around with you! See how young we start!

But boys will do it to, my almost 15yo used to carry his Marios everywhere when he was a toddler, he has since tryed to pawn his love of them onto his 4yo brother. Without luck though, but Shayne does like to play with small things and shove them into socks or or other small things, very odd. But both of the twins will throw different things into their back packs but they dont do it all the time. They dont want to leave the house with them.