Collecting is an interesting activity for people of all ages. You can assemble the Orient watch, pins, wrappers from chocolate sweets and even money. The main thing is that any of these hobbies brings pleasure, and there are many types of collections, everyone can choose something to their liking.
For example, you can constantly purchase and breed new aquarium fish. This type of hobby is called “aquarium”, it is quite popular. If you just have an aquarium at home, then you can’t call a collector.
You like to joke in the company of friends and relatives, you know hundreds of jokes on different topics? Then you are partly collector of jokes, and your hobby can be called “anecdotics”. With such a “baggage” you can become a “soul” of any fun company!
Fans of strong words and a good Russian mat, without suspecting it themselves, are followers of Argotimophylia, t. e. hobby for collecting jargon words. This lesson cannot be called very popular, but he has fans. They collect jargon words from around the world, making their special reference books.
The beautiful half of humanity will probably like the type of hobby as barbifilia. This collecting implies the presence of a large number of dolls and their outfits. If you are ready to buy a bag for Barbie instead of going to a restaurant, then this type of hobby is exactly for you. In addition, your daughter will definitely appreciate your mother’s work and will be happy to play 134 barbie from your collection.
There is another type of hobby that few have heard about – libraryfilia. Under the complex name, collecting data on happy owners of rare libraries that do not allow anyone to look at their books.
After traveling on a trolleybus or tram, you carefully fold the tickets in the box? Then you have a hobby called “Biletophilia”. Collectors can collect coupons for only one type of transport or, for example, tickets for ferry crossings from around the world.
Beer lovers can also take up collecting. Then the wife will not be able to say anything when he saw five boxes of foamy drink in the pantry. So, the study of the history of beer, collecting recipes for its production and much, much more belongs to such a type of hobby as birophylia. By the way, he also has a separate section, which involves collecting mugs, traffic jams and openings. For the sake of interest, you can even visit a private beer museum in Samara. Its director collected many interesting facts about this drink.
Travelers who can not sit still for a minute, will like a type of hobby as venafilia. This is the collecting of souvenirs that may indicate a tourist movement route, for example, suitcase stickers.
If you cook exquisite dishes every day, once a week – cakes, and on weekends, pamper your home with a new dish, then you will definitely be interested in the type of hobby as gastronomophylia. It implies interest in cook books, still lifes, songs, even gastronomic signs. By the way, there is another type of collecting related to food. This is Gelatophilia, namely, the love of ice cream wrappers.
There is a hobby for those who really liked geography at school. Globusophilia is collecting globes-models of our planet. Of interest are unusual globes (for example, funny spherical models of the native country), as well as models of the former centuries, which show what land our ancestors saw.
You like to kiss? Then Gubography is your hobby! It implies collecting kisses or lip prints. The traditions of the peoples of the world associated with this pleasant process are also interesting. By the way, in the 20th century there lived a baron from St. Petersburg, a collection of lip prints of which totaled 200 copies, while all of them belonged to the most famous people of that time!
There are many types of hobbies. We described only part of them. Choose your own occupation, and then you definitely don’t have to miss. But do not forget: the true collector constantly replenishes his collection all with new copies, so just collect a few pieces of the same brands – this is not enough.