Collecting Hobbies

I was having a discussion with my daughter about collecting various things and why people have such kind of hobbies. I told her that I used to collect stamps. My daughter collects erasers and I was making fun of that. I asked her, whats the point of collecting erasers. And then I was trying to explain why people collect stamps. I was explaining that they are like memorials for people or places (less expensive). People used to use a lot of stamps for sending letters in those days when there was no mobile and internet. So it would be a good idea to create memorials in the form of stamps that will be used by a lot of people on a daily basis. So the more stamps people collect, the more memorials or stories they are collecting.

My daughter heard this argument and she told one line in support of hers. She told "daddy, erasers remind us that it's ok to make mistakes in life". And she rested her case :)