Collecting
You either are or you aren't a collector,’ thinks Alison Snowdon, ceramics specialist at the auction house Fieldings. ‘Some children painstakingly assemble albums of football stickers or collect Pokémon cards and, as adults, they keep on collecting. It's as if it's genetic, or a personality trait.’
Alison thinks there is a pattern to a lot of novice collecting. At first,snowballs and soon, not only is the cabinet bursting, but there are boxes of paperweights gathering dust in the spare room.