There must be something instinctive about collecting oddities, or perhaps it's a social aspect of extream curiousity, where after examining an object, a desire

There must be something instinctive about collecting oddities, or perhaps it's a social aspect of extream curiousity, where after examining an object, a desire to get another opinion, requires storing the object, and so it begins. A friend who has turned pro, makes his living partialy through the buying and selling of oddities, often whole collections that are bieng sold/disposed of by exasperated relatives, his pragmatic approach to his own desire to have things he calls "catch and release", and so getting to enjoy some interesting thing, but sell it forward, and aquire the next item. It is a wierd world though, as many people develope specific fetishes and kinks around objects , or just simpler less troublesome obsessions, and then of course movie people, decorators, advertisers, artists, bibliophiles, etc.