For next week's issue we are going to keep last week's topic going for another   
   week.  We thought that some of the responses that we received were so   
   interesting and we'd love to hear from more of you about your collections:   
      
   "What is a strange or odd thing that you collect?" We'd love to know about   
   it.  Is it strange to everyone who sees it?  Do you display it proudly?  Why   
   do you collect it?   
      
   Tell us about it.  Send an email with your response to Phil@BigNews.biz Your   
   feedback helps us to keep the newsletter interesting :) Here are a few   
   responses from people with some very unusual collections :)   
      
   "I was in an antique mall in Hickory, NC, when someone came in asking if they   
   had any hog scrapers (tool to scrape hair off butchered hog).  After a moment   
   of stunned silence, the clerk said no.  Thought that was a pretty unusual item   
   to collect.  Snooky"   
      
   "I bought an apple green canning jar with it's lid at a sale about 40 years   
   ago.  It sat around for a few weeks on the kitchen counter and the cats kept   
   rubbing against it.  I was afraid that it would get broken.  Then I found a   
   cat whisker on the counter top and for some reason I put it in the jar.    
   Another whisker was found on the floor and it too went into the canning jar.    
   That jar is now full of our cat's whiskers and this strange collection draws   
   stares and comments from visitors.  You know some of those whiskers are now   
   the only things other than our memories, that we have of our precious fur   
   babies.  Some people apparently think that we are really strange to have kept   
   the whiskers and others start talking about their pets.  Guess you just have   
   to have fur babies to understand why we kept the whiskers and that jar is now   
   kept in a small display cabinet along with some other collectibles so they   
   shouldn't get broken.  I sure am glad that they are safe.  Linda at Relics"   
      
   "Hi Phil,  You asked about unusual collections.  My father-in-law collects   
   weather vanes.  He must have at least 40 of them.  To some that might not seem   
   to be that unusual but he put every single one of them up on the various roofs   
   of his house, garage and barn. When he ran out of room on those buildings he   
   started putting them up on his shed and his chicken coop!  We wonder what he   
   will do when the space on those structures runs out!  Jack R."   
      
   Thanks to those of you who have been responding! We really enjoy, and   
   appreciate, the feedback!   
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