Anything can be collected. And it doesn’t matter if these are expensive items or some trinkets. The main thing is that your collection is numerous and then you will definitely get into the Guinness Book of Records.
1. The largest collection of toothpaste tubes.
Val Kolpakov (Georgia, USA) has assembled a collection of 2,037 different tubes of toothpaste collected from all over the world, including Korea, Japan, China, India and Russia.
2. The largest collection of belt slings.
Christian Gfrerer from Austria collects slings. His collection is 3260 pieces and is constantly updated. By setting this record, Christian broke his own record of 2,671 lines.
3. The largest collection of sunglasses.
Betty Webster (Kamuela, Hawaii, USA) started collecting sunglasses in 1999. People who visited the Hawaiian Islands, having learned about the addiction of a woman, simply gave her their glasses. Her collection includes 1,506 pieces.
4. The largest collection of sneakers.
The largest and most complete Nikes collection in the world consists of 2,388 pairs and is owned by Geordie Geller, who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. All sneakers are brand new, in their original boxes and valued at over a million dollars.
5. The largest collection of candy wrappers.
Milan Lukic Valdivia from Peru is in charge of collecting packaging for sweets. Milan has been collecting chocolate wrappers for over 32 years. Its collection includes samples from 49 countries and includes 5,065 wrappers.
6. The largest collection of police hats.
The owner of the largest collection of police hats is Andreas Skala from Germany. The collection includes 2,534 unique items. Andreas Skala broke his previous record.
7. The largest collection of fire helmets.
The well-presented collection of fire helmets consists of 838 items and is owned by Geert Suer from the Netherlands. His collection began in 1976 with a London fire brigade helmet. Since then, he has been collecting helmets from all over the world. Traveling to different countries, whether it's a business trip or a family vacation, the first thing he visits is the local fire station.
8. The largest collection of pencils.
Tushar Lahanpal from India collects pencils. He collected 19,824 units. The largest in his collection is 3 m long, 29 cm wide and weighs 3.63 kg. And the smallest is only 4 cm in length. The teen also owns a gold-plated pencil, pieces studded with Swarovski crystals and a £400 Queen of England pencil.
9. The largest collection of pizza boxes.
Scott Wiener from the USA is engaged in an unusual occupation - collecting pizza boxes. The selection consists of 595 pieces and contains copies not only from the favorite pizzerias in the area, but from 45 different countries around the world. In this case, you can also admire the ability to fit almost 600 pizza boxes in your apartment in New York.
10. The largest collection of teddy bears.
"Teddy Bear City" is the name of the Jackie Meely collection, which is located in a small house on Main Street in Hill City. 8,026 pieces is a record that is hard to beat.
11. The largest collection of horseshoes.
Petr Kostin from Chisinau (Moldova) collects "happiness". His huge collection consists of 3200 horseshoes. All samples are not new, but were once worn by horses, bulls and donkeys.
12. The largest collection of rubber ducks.
Charlotte Lee from the USA has 5,631 rubber ducks that she has been collecting since 1996. All of her toys are displayed in glass cases on four walls in a separate "duck room".
13. The largest collection of Barbie dolls.
There are over 100,000 Barbie doll collectors in the world. But the largest collection belongs to Betty Dorfmann from Germany, consisting of 15,000 different dolls. She is also the proud owner of a rare 1959 Barbie, the company's first doll.
14. The largest collection of bottle caps.
An unusual hobby is collecting bottle caps. Poul Ho Poulsen from Denmark has been doing this since 1956. Its huge collection includes 101,733 different caps from 183 countries.
15. The largest collection of ballpoint pens.
Angelika Unverhau from Germany is the owner of a huge collection of ballpoint pens - 285,150 pieces, excluding duplicates imported from 148 different countries of the world.
16. The largest collection of wooden walking sticks.
Dalmasio Fernandez from Spain collects his own wooden walking sticks. His original selection is 1,872 canes.
17. The largest collection of things related to the hamburger.
Daytona Beach, Florida hamburger lover Harry Sperl collected 3,724 hamburger items, setting an unusual world record.
18. Largest collection of Do Not Disturb signs.
Rainer Weichert from Germany collects Do Not Disturb signs. Hotels, cruise liners, planes from 188 countries of the world are the main assistants in this unusual business. The entire selection has 11,570 characters. The rarest and most valuable item is from the Olympic Village in Berlin from 1936, and the oldest is from the General Brock Hotel in Canada from 1910.
19. Largest collection of valid credit cards.
Walter Kavanagh from the USA is the owner of 1,497 individual valid credit cards for a total of $1.7 million. The culprit of this hobby was a bet made with a friend. And they were collected in just a year. By the way, cards are stored in the largest wallet in the world with a length of 76.2 m and a weight of 17.49 kg. And if you fold them at the end, they will reach the top of a four-story building.
20. The largest collection of toys from fast food restaurants.
Percival R. Luge from the Philippines is a quick eater. His collection of toys from fast food restaurants includes 10,000 items. Even such a hobby can lead to the Guinness Book of Records.
Alexander "Samodelkin" Ustinov has been collecting old Soviet toys for over 15 years. At school, he was engaged in a car modeling circle at the Club of Young Technicians at the Krasny Oktyabr machine-building plant - he built various models of cars, reworked and improved various toys, and assembled new ones from broken old ones. Even then, he had a fairly large collection of various equipment and models, but in the early 2000s the club was closed, and his personal collection was destroyed along with the club property.
This was the impetus for the creation of a new collection, but this time Alexander decided to collect not car models, but toy cars, and always in their original form, without any alterations. At the same time, the basic principle of the collection was laid, which Alexander adheres to this day: the maximum desire for the original, the minimum of new interventions. The collection grew quite quickly, Alexander learned a lot of new things. A separate joy was to find exactly the same cars that he had in childhood. And, although now Alexander has a huge collection, it still does not have all the toys that were in his childhood.
Initially, the format of the collection assumed only a technical, transport toy. But later, seeing with what speed the toys, which until recently were massive, disappear, it was decided to expand the format of the collection. One of the first to be added to the collection were October-Pioneer symbols, constructors, and toy books. At that moment, the collection already began to claim the title of a museum and Alexander began to hold the first traveling exhibitions. A little later, dolls, animals, rubber, polyethylene, celluloid toys, and board games appeared in the collection.
2. At the moment, Alexander is especially passionate about filling the newest, puppet part of the collection. As Alexander admits, “All my life I have been completely indifferent to dolls, but now they have completely captured me and for the last two years they have been a serious competitor to technology in my soul.” 
3. The collection covers the period of the USSR until 1990 and a little later, if the development of the produced toy was carried out back in the days of the USSR. It is impossible to establish the exact number of exhibits in the collection. there is no way to take an inventory, but according to rough estimates, Alexander managed to collect more than 1000 toys of various years of manufacture and condition. The main part of the collection lies packed and inaccessible for any inspection, moreover, in not the best conditions (an unheated garage with a leaking roof). And the most valuable exhibits are in an ordinary one-room apartment, occupying almost all the free space in it, which is also completely inconvenient for viewing. 
4. Alexander's dream is to open a real museum with free access for everyone. In his opinion, the collection should be available to a wide range of visitors: only then does it live. At a minimum, you need a bright and heated room in which you can place the exhibits of the collection and conduct excursions. Alexander is trying to negotiate with the administration of his district, but no positive decisions have been made yet. 
This report shows the general scale of the collection and Alexander asks to be treated with understanding - this is not an exhibition or a museum, this is a forced measure to keep the exhibits in this form for lack of other options. Therefore, do not pay attention to the dust, I quite spontaneously came to visit Alexander and he had the opportunity to prepare for my arrival.
So, let's get acquainted with some exhibits of the collection:
5. The only articulated doll in the Soviet Union. She can be planted and she will sit normally. 
6. Doll with tracking eyes. 
7. Horse on wheels. The exhibit is interesting because it is a home-made, not a mass-produced toy made from improvised materials. 
8. Pinocchio wooden cars, such were usually in kindergartens - RAFiki and dump trucks. And on top of the LTZ GAZ-52 dump truck with metal wheels. 
9. Electronic board game Shooter, this is already the beginning of the 1990s. 
10. Very interesting exhibits from the same collection of wooden toys. Pay attention to the style and design - this is a real muscle car! 
11. A huge collection of Soviet dolls: celluloid, polyethylene, play and decorative. 
12. Various models of wheeled vehicles. 
13. Exclusive and one of the most expensive exhibits in the collection is the electric railway manufactured by the Moskabel plant. With transformer, lighting, semaphores and arrows. Released 60 years ago. In a complete set, such a railway in our time costs almost 100 thousand rubles. 
14. Planet rover Elektronika IM-11. It was produced in the 1980s, and the BIG TRAK developed in the USA was taken as the basis. It has memory and can perform a programmed algorithm of actions. Perhaps one of the most technologically advanced toys in the USSR. 
15. A series of developing designers Youth. 
16. Cult toy of the 1960s - Lunokhod with remote wired control. Able to drive back and forth, turn and open the cover with a solar battery. 
17. Toys take up all the free space in the apartment. ZILs with semi-trailers of different years of manufacture and a collection of ZIS-150s of different years of manufacture. 
18. Animals - rubber, polyethylene, celluloid - have taken shelter on a shelf in the kitchen. 
19. Racing cars of the Estonian factory Norma, a well-known manufacturer of seat belts for cars. 
20. And most of the collection is stored in the garage and is completely inaccessible for inspection. 
21. Numerous board games. 
22. Pedal children's car Orenburg. 
23. Alexander shows how the design of the chassis of manufactured toys changed over time - at first the design was finalized to increase detail, and in recent years of production, on the contrary, they simplified it in order to reduce the cost of production. 
24. Most Soviet toys died like this. After which she was thrown away. 
25. More dolls. 
Have you found toys that were in your childhood?
Alexander with great joy will accept as a gift, buy or exchange any old toys from the times of the USSR. And it does not matter what condition they are in, perhaps this toy is very lacking in the lineup of the collection. Take your part in the preservation of historical heritage! You can contact Alexander through LiveJournal -
The unusual find was made after representatives of the Protestant community Celebration Church in Lakeville (Minnesota, USA) came to inspect the house bequeathed to the church by the recently deceased parishioner Dennis Erickson, according to Kare11.com.
Dennis Erickson, who died last December, in his will donated the house and everything in it to the parish of Celebration Church, of which he had been a member for many years.
Lisa Lundstrom, head of the financial service of the community, said in a commentary for the publication that the first visit to the house transferred to the church made an indelible impression on her.
“When I entered, I was breathless,” she testified: practically all the rooms in the house, all the free space - from the hallway to the bedrooms - was filled with shelves, on which thousands of scale models of cars were stored. “Literally: from floor to ceiling, in every single room.”
Even in the corridors, in the laundry room and in the bathrooms, shelving was installed on the walls.
It took several weeks to inventory the collection. According to the compiled catalog, it contains more than 30 thousand car models.
“This is one of the largest collections in the world,” said L. Lindstrom.
Dennis Erickson and his only and main passion
A resident of Lakeville, an engineer by training, Dennis Erickson began collecting model cars at the age of nine and devoted all his free time to this hobby.
He was a frequenter of antique shops and a regular visitor to car shows, devoting a lot of time to searching for models on the Internet. Until the last days of his life, Erickson placed orders for the purchase of various models, and some of them continue to arrive by mail to his address even after his death.
Dennis Erickson was the only child in the family. He lived in the house with his parents, and after their death he became its only inhabitant. The Lakeville church member never married and had no children.
In addition to a huge collection of car models, D. Erickson collected and cataloged thousands of brochures on automotive topics. The shelves on which his collection was stored, he assembled with his own hands. The shelves were covered with Plexiglas to protect the models from dust.
“He took better care of these little cars than people take care of each other,” said Lisa Lindstrom.
Dennis Erickson died at his home in his sleep at the age of 69.
The fate of the Erickson collection
Since D. Erickson did not have a family, the Celebration Church took care of organizing his funeral.
It was decided to sell the Dennis Erickson collection. Lisa Lindstrom, appointed in the will as the executor of D. Erickson's estate, believes that the unique collection will probably be sold in large parts, since the sale of a collection of many thousands of individual models may take too long.
L. Lindstrom estimates that the Lakeville church could generate six figures from the sale of Dennis Erickson's collection, most of which will go to the Celebration Church community. The church already has plans for this money: the community intends to direct the funds to the development of youth ministry.
"I think using the gift that Dennis gave to influence future generations is exactly what he would want," said Celebration Church pastor Derrick Ross.
The largest collections of car models
The origins of modern model car collecting date back to the 1940s. The authors of the idea of a scale model of the car were sales agents of the largest French automobile concerns.
To make it easier for the future buyer of the car to imagine his purchase, salesmen began to carry with them exact models-copies of the offered cars. And the most popular scale today, 1:43, was chosen on the basis of numerous consultations with engineers, artists and even doctors. According to experts, models of this particular scale are both visual and easy to manufacture. Over time, models of other sizes appeared, multiple or close in multiplicity to 43 - 1:87, 1:160, 1:24, 1:12.
However, 1:43 remains the most common and popular format. The collection discovered in Lakeville is made up of models of this particular scale.
As of January 2014, Lebanese Nabil Karam (Nabil "Billy" Karam) was considered the holder of the official Guinness record for collecting model cars. More than 30 thousand unique models were collected in his collection.
However, a resident of San Antonio (Texas, USA) Hank Hammer (Hank Hammer) since 1968 has collected a collection of almost 36.5 thousand scale models. And taking into account the accompanying artifacts (brochures, catalogs, automotive-themed souvenirs, etc.), this collection has about 100,000 items.
At the same time, the collector preferred Porsche car models.
By now, Hank Hammer has abandoned his former passion. His collection is stored in two specially equipped houses with a total area of about 280 square meters. m.
Learn about the ten strangest collectors and their collections:
1. Bob Gibbins and Lizzie: 240 sex dolls
Bob Gibbins, 60, and his wife, Lizzie, 55, have a rather unusual collection of 240 different kinds of sex dolls that they dress up and take with them on their shopping trips.
Bob says that he has always been interested in these dolls, but his passion began to really develop when he bought various rag dolls and other toys for his two children. He then moved on to buying store mannequins, which he spent two years buying up a rather impressive collection. However, what he really wanted to collect, he realized only when he got on the online forum of silicone doll lovers. In 2007, with the support of his wife, Gibbins purchased his first silicone doll, Beverly, for about $4,000. But that was just the beginning, as the couple continued to buy different types of sex dolls, from cheap inflatables that cost $639 maximum to lifelike silicone dolls like Jessica, who blew a hole in the family's budget by cutting $11,202. Overall, Bob and Lizzie Gibbins have estimated that they have spent about $160,000 since they started collecting sex dolls.
Even though sex dolls are usually bought and used for sexual purposes, Bob says he never used his girls in this way. He admits that he finds most of them attractive, especially given the fact that they are designed with perfect figures, but he considers them all to be members of the family.
2. Graham Barker: The largest (and probably the only one in the world) collection of navel fluff
Collecting navel fluff is probably not a hobby worth mentioning in conversation, but that hasn't stopped the 45-year-old librarian from collecting his navel fluff for 26 years.
Graham Baker from Perth, Australia has been building his strange collection ever since he noticed fluff in his navel one night and wondered how much navel fluff a human could produce. The only way to get an answer to your question was to watch your navel and collect your own navel fluff. Contrary to what many people think when they first hear about his strange habit, Graham isn't obsessed with belly button fluff, and he doesn't spend all his time staring at his belly button either. He is driven by pure curiosity and he devotes only ten seconds of his time to collecting navel fluff, doing this right before he goes to the shower.
The amount of fluff he finds in his belly button each night depends on the type of clothes he wore that day, but he has found that warm underwear is the most productive. Every night he collects his navel fluff and puts it in an earthen jar he bought specifically to store his navel fluff. At the end of each year, he adds that year's navel down to his vast collection. In the 26 years he has been harvesting his own belly button fluff, he has been able to fill three glass jars and is already working on a fourth. Believe it or not, his vast collection weighs only 22 grams.
After making it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest collection of navel down, his three glass jars of navel down ended up in the museum for an undisclosed amount.
3 Eric Ducharme Latex Mermaid Tails 
When Eric DuCharme dons his beautiful mermaid tail to explore the crystal clear waters of Florida's natural springs as a merman, he says he's also reincarnated mentally. It's the unique, exciting life of a Florida man who says he eats, sleeps, and breathes mermaids while trying to physically look and act like them as often as time permits.
Ducharme has been fascinated with mermaids ever since he was a child. At the age of 16, he gave his first show, swimming as the merman prince at the Little Mermaid Show "Weeki Wachee Springs" in 2006.
To date, DuCharme has his own business called "Mertailor". He manufactures tailor-made silicone, urethane and latex tails, such as he wears.
4. The largest collection of chewed nicotine gum in the world 
Have you ever heard of someone who rolls chewed nicotine gum into a ball like it's dough? No? Well, then listen.
When Barry Chappell was on an international flight, he started chewing nicotine gum because he couldn't smoke. Due to the fact that there was no garbage can nearby where he could throw the gum, he simply held it in his hand and rolled it into a small ball. Piece by piece, his ball of chewed gum visibly increased in size. It was at that moment that his amazing idea was born. Why not roll the world's largest ball of chewed nicotine gum and quit smoking in the process?
Now, six years and 95,200 gum later, Barry is a non-smoking superstar. He rolled up a giant ball of chewed nicotine gum that weighs almost 80 kilograms!
Source 5Paul Brockman: A collection of 55,000 dresses he chose for his wife 
If love was measured by the number of dresses, Paul Brockman would most likely have received the title of the most loving husband in the world. Over the past 56 years, the German-born, Lomita, California-based contractor has given his wife, Margo, 55,000 dresses, each of which he chose himself.
The first ten dresses in Paul Brockmann's impressive collection were free. He got them while working at the seaport in Bremen, Germany, where workers could choose what they wanted when the bales of goods were opened. He gave them all to his then girlfriend Margot. After they met for a while, Paul asked for his girlfriend's hand in marriage from her parents.
Margot shared his passion for dancing and they went to the dance floor every week, but Paul wanted her to wear a new dress every time, so he bought her more and more dresses.
Margot never liked to go shopping, so Paul chose and bought dresses on his own. He bought dresses before work, after work, and even during work, sometimes coming home with a pile of thirty new dresses. He bought them during the end-of-season sales and everywhere he saw something he liked. At some point, his obsession with dresses got out of hand and he stopped caring about their size.
He never set any kind of budget for his purchases. Sometimes he spent everything he had in his pockets and waited until the next week if he had no money. The most expensive was the dress he spent $300 on and which Margo never wore. As you can imagine, most of the 55,000 dresses Margot never wore.
6. Jian Yang:
The white exterior and spartan gray staircase of Yang Jian's neat house give no hint of what's lurking inside - the pink floor in the living room and his collection of over 6,000 Barbie dolls.
The 33-year-old man from Singapore prefers minimalist décor, but Barbie dolls and 3,000 other dolls fill three of his living room's four walls, nine mirrored closets in his dressing room, and shelves in his office.
Jiang has a professional interest in toys as he is the director of marketing at Omicom Media Group. However, he started collecting Barbie dolls at the age of 13, when he bought a Barbie model called "Great Shape", dressed in a turquoise tracksuit and striped leggings.
His boyish interest has turned into a "crazy obsession" supported by his friends and accepted by his family. He spent over 20 years and $404,681 to build his collection.
Note: Although Jian has an impressively large collection, the 2013 edition of Guinness World Records gave the award for the largest collection of Barbie dolls to a woman from Germany named Bettina Dorfmann, who has a collection of over 15,000 of these dolls.
7. Chris Reid: The world's largest (and funniest) collection of huge water pistols (Super Soaker)
Just look at Chris Reid's crazy collection of huge water guns. The huge squirt gun first appeared in 1989 and quickly replaced other types of squirt guns. With its pumping system, the huge water gun practically gives you the ability to shoot water over long distances many more times than conventional pistols.
In all, he bought about 340 huge water guns, including 240 unique designs (the rest are either other colors or duplicates). His very first huge yellow/green squirt gun, model 50, was signed by Lonnie Johnson, who invented this type of squirt gun.
Source 8Robyn Amato: A collection of 3,000 Raggedy Annie dolls
Despite being surrounded by over 3,000 Raggedy Annie dolls, Tampa, Florida resident Robin Amato can't stop adding to her collection. She never had a Raggedy Annie when she was a child, so her insanity didn't start until she was in her 40s. Now, a 58-year-old Florida woman admits the dolls have taken over every room in her home.
So far, she has spent over $20,000 on dolls, Raggedy Enya cookie jars, and other collectibles related to the doll.
Amato loves to dress up as Raggedy Annie, and takes some of her collection of dolls on her daily walks. She hosts tea parties and also spends daily time in a special bedroom set aside for her Raggedy Annie clan.
Source 9Vic Clinco: World's Largest Collection of Hot Sauces 
Vic Clinko has the largest collection of hot sauces in the world. His astounding collection consists of 6,000 bottles that he has purchased from all over the world. His collection even has a rare bottle of sauce called "Blair's 16 Million Reserve", which is the hottest sauce on the planet. Bottles of sauces from ceiling to floor are lined with all the shelves in the dining room of his house in Phoenix (Phoenix), Arizona. Bottles can also be found in built-in wardrobes and refrigerators.
He has been collecting bottles of sauces for the past 17 years and rightfully owns the largest private collection of hot sauces in the world. Mr. Clinko, who works as a chef at the Four Seasons Hotel, said that the most valuable bottle of hot sauce in his collection costs about $900 and is unique. The most expensive bottle of hot sauce in his collection cost $4,000.
Source 10 Paul Luke: World's Largest Collection of Milk Bottles
The former milkman had to build a museum behind his house in the garden after his house became too small for his collection of more than 10,000 milk bottles.
Dedicated to his craft, 33-year-old Paul Luke kept his first bottle of milk when he was just nine years old and earned his own living expenses by working as a milkman's assistant. However, over time, his collection swelled to over 10,000 bottles, the rarest of which date back to the 1890s.
