Collecting.  

Oh, I forgot to mention that I have also a little collection of coins, but nothing rare here, I don't actively collect them anymore. But there is one special coin I found at my garden while gathering potatoes from the field. I think it's a Swedish coin (I live in Estonia and centuries ago Swedish invaded the land). The coin might be some 500-700 years old, can't say exactly.
But yea, collecting coins is an interesting hobby too. Thanks for answer!;)

You have such a special hobby in my opinion. You know, lot of people collect elephant figurines, but you collect frogs. The story of your hobby is also interesting, like some kind of fairy tale, where magic frog leads the main character into some mysterious place
How many frogs do you have in your collection already?

Not much, but around 100.

Hey for me that is quite much already!:D

I find it was a quite generous decision to give the trolls to your little cousin. I am sure she liked them a lot.
Collecting coins is an interesting hobby, I didn't knew that in USA there are different coins in every state. Here in Estonia there are 15 counties, they are quite small so there is no sense of forging special money for every county.
Thanks for answer!(;

Oh no they are the same coin. But on quarters (25 cents) each one says one of the 50 states on it. So they are the same coin just have a different name on them :) sounds stupid probably but all the states have a different picture aswell. The front is always the same. But on the back of the coin it will either say united states of america or it will say one of the states, and have a corresponding picture with that state. :) They are the same coin though.

Yea-yea, I got it. It's like on Euros. In European Union there is standard money - Euro. 1 Euro coins all have the same front side, but the back of the coins is unique for each country, it has a country name and symbol of the country on the back. So for me it would pretty much the same to collect coins from all the 27 countries of EU like you collect coins of different states:D
Oh, wait, all 27 haven't adopted Euro yet, so it would be even easier to collect all the different Euro coins:D
Anyway, it's cool that you have something like that. You should try putting them inside some special box covered with glass or something, so you could exhibit them like that!;)

I must admit you have a cool hobby. Do you keep these beanie babies in some special place like cabinet or shelf? It would be nice to exhibit them like that!;)
Good luck with growing your collection!:)

Wow, your hobby is once again something special for me. Never heard anyone collecting paper bags. But I think it's quite interesting too. And there are like thousands or millions different paper bags around the world, so you'll never get all of them. And that's what makes collecting paper bags interesting!;)
And by the way, my hobby of collecting stamps started when my mother gave her collection to me. She used to collect them while she was at school, but after graduating she didn't have time for that. So your decision about forwarding your collections to your nieces was probably right, you had also a chance to make other people happy by giving them those cute collectibles!;)

So it looks like we are kind of colleagues:D
You know what? I live in Estonia and I bet you have no stamps from my country. Or anyway, if you even have some, I could send you more of them. I mean, we could make kind of exchange like that. What country do you live in?

Hey Torunn, funny story with these elephants and kids hoping to see a real one:D
200-250 is quite large collection in my opinion and I understand what you mean when you say you have no room for them. Same thing with books. They take pretty much space. Do you have elephants from some exotic countries too? I mean like India or some African country?

I think I have some from far abroad, I bought some in Bangkok, but that's mainly gifts. Haven't seen wild elephants yet, but one day, I will go on a safari and see them live. And see hippos swimming!

Wow, Thailand is exotic country for me. Nice plans you have, I would like to visit Africa too, some day. To see lions and elephants running freely around savanna, not sitting in the cages, like in the zoo.

Yea, I wrestling is quite popular in USA. Here, in Estonia, all little boys (including me), used to collect stickers and posters with soccer players. The collecting madness reached its heights when the world cup 1998' was on.
I also agree, that sometimes it's good to think about good times that have passed.
My passion to collecting Micro Machines started when I also saw some of them on eBay and they reminded me of my childhood.

Yes, it's the right choice to keep them. You can later show them to your children or grandchildren or just recall the old times when you used to collect them! Thanks for responding!;)

When I was young, I also used to collect dead leaves during the fall, because then they change their color and look especially beautiful. I used to hide them in the books and them discover them years later. It was kind of surprise.
I think that your collection is quite beautiful (although I haven't seen that). It would be even more magnificent, if you'll manage to complete this book you were talking about, so all the leaves would be in one place for examining.
Thanks for responding!:)