Projects & Contests

The world of collecting is a lot more than Beanie Babies and baseball cards. People scour websites like eBay for everything from NIB (new in box), mint (condition) Star Trek: Voyager costumes to vintage Chanel suits to old coins. What do you hold onto? What would you collect if you had unlimited space and funds? We want to know all about it!

• Explain how you got started as a collector, and why you kept going.
• If you collect more than one thing, choose one thing to focus on or devote a flipbook page to each.
• Take lots of pictures of your stuff! Tell us its story, where you acquired it, and how you display it.
• If you don't collect anything, photograph something someone else collects — Grandma's salt and pepper shakers, Dad's old records — and explain why you think it's cool or totally ridiculous!