Stamps. Sparkles. Plastic animals.

Collections can be found all over the world, from high end items in museums to small objects on a bedroom shelf.

“When I was younger, I had a collection, I called it my sparkle collection and I would collect sequins and glitter, basically anything sparkly,” Myka McCraw said.

Some collections may start out small and just a hobby, but some have the potential to grow and become a thing of importance.

“My mom had this healing stone collection when she was younger and she kept it, and then when I started getting into healing stones she passed them down her collection to me,” McCraw said. “Now I’ve got a bigger collection than what I originally had, it’s special to me because I know that she was a nerd too.”

Some collections were just childhood phases.

“I used to sit on the floor and I would take out these little plastic animals,” Lindsay Logan said. “I’d just play with them and then make little growling noises. I thought I was so amazing but in reality I was just a little kid playing with plastic dolls.”

Collections can start up again, maybe with a more serious intention in mind.

“I recently got a full-sized book that’s actually for stamps,” Teresa Childers said. “I went to a sale and it had a bunch of stamps on it.”

Childers’ grandmother gave her three more stamp-filled books, giving this newly started collection a special meaning.

“Stamps are important to me because they hold history in a little piece of paper and stamps go all around the world,” Childers said.

Collections don’t always last and even though they were abandoned long ago, the fond memories still remain.

“I miss them so much, all of the time,” Logan said. “I think about it and I used to have so much fun. Why can’t I rewind and go back because that was whenever we didn’t focus on social media, and we didn’t care what we looked like, it was elementary school.”