One of the things we collect are money boxes. These are two of my favourites.

These money boxes are small replicas of what the Danish and Swedish postboxes once looked like. I don’t have the keys so there’s not actually any money in them.

The red one is Danish and says “Herein you may not place false money, empty as you please’ and the yellow one is Swedish and says  ‘He who saves is not without” (or literally: he who saves, has).

We collect many things. I say we, but it’s mostly me. I don’t know how it all started or how some of these collections came to even start. One of the things we collect is tiny ornamental coffee cups. I only drink coffee at work, and Alex doesn’t at all, but if we were to start having coffee at home these would be the perfect size.

I’m always going to thrift stores and flea markets, so who knows what new collection will start to form.