Some of the stuff I didn't buy for my son, taking pictures of it instead. There are many purchasing temptations in the world. I resist most of them.

1. StuffI Didn’t Buy My Son: A Consumerist Collectory Joshua with the King of Pop(corn)

2. A Collectory from Dr. Z’s House of Funat Happy Rabbits FarmWilkins-O’Riley Zinn, Aesthetic Recycler Come good times or bad, there is always a market for things nobody needs. • Kim Hubbard

3. It’s so useless, it’s perfect! Let’s get it!! • Overheard, Christmas 2010

4. There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.• Charles Dickens

5. Some stuff we choose to collect. Other stuff people think we ought to collect. • Student about her passions, November, 2003 I’m going to get you another one and another one. • Friend of a student, November 2003, after giving her friend a cow to begin a collection

6. An object in possession seldom contains the same charm that it had in pursuit.• Pliny the Younger

7. Seriously?

8. Seriously? Still wondering.

9. If there is anything I hate, it is collecting.• William JamesCollecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.• Ursula AndressNow I am obsessed with collectingplatypus paraphernalia.• Trevor DunnI didn’t play at collecting.No cigar anywhere was safe from me.• Edward G. Robinson about his cigar band collection

10. Apartment dogs.

11. Junk is the ideal product. . .the ultimate merchandise.No sales talk necessary.The client will crawl througha sewer andbeg to buy.• William S. Burroughs

12. Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. • A.R. Ammons

13. I really dig you! Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. • Jules Renard

14. Gee, I thought I was a big girl!

15. Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.• Wayne Thiebaud

16. Everyone loves plush toys.• 60 MinutesNovember 12, 2007 It’s very scary to look around this room and see all these animals have their plastic eyeballs staring back at you. • Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn’s House of Style, November 2007, about a woman’s collection of stuffed dogs

17. Just say neigh.

18. Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. • Kurt Vonnegut about Billy Pilgrim’s mother in Slaughterhouse-Five

19. Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window,Why, why, says the junk in the yard.• Paul McCartney

20. Why, yes, my dear, you disarm me too. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. • Oscar Wilde

21. Footstool. It better not be leather.

22. Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.• Frank Zappa I confess. I bought this for myself after passing it by for my son. Just a quarter—what collector of oddities could resist? Not me.

23. You can make things out of a lot of stuff. That’s the problem with saving things. • Chris, 2007 Everything is made of hidden stuff. •Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. To discover what normal means, you have to surf a tide of weirdness.• Charlotte Rampling

25. In•Finito! Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders. • E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web