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Sugar cubes. Why? Just WHY?

Oh, gosh. I have a collection of sugar cubes from different places in Europe. They come in all sorts of pretty wrappers with pictures that tell you something about where they're from. Never thought they'd creep anybody out, though ... sugar doesn't spoil over time.

It's sort of like a stamp collection, but with a solid core.

Doll heads are creepy!

Anyway, anything that happens to be about body parts (real or simulated) or dead animals tends to frighten me. Think glass eyeballs, brains in jars, pets preserved through taxidermy.

And guns. I know, some like them, it's the American way, there are ways to keep them safe, etc., etc., but to me, they just look like an invitation to trouble.

I love the doll heads. "Is your apartment toddler-proof?" You tell me, lady. You tell me.

Haha, I collect 'body parts.' But mannequin style. I have a few glass heads, acrylic hands, display torsos, etc. My most unique one is a male a$$, that would have been an underwear display. It's got a flat top so it's currently being used as a speaker stand in my living room. Now talk about a conversation starter!

I have a collection that has potential creep-out: I collect animal bones from the nearby beaches. I have a seagull skull, a few vertibraes, and I have them displayed around the house. :D

I definitely think the doll heads are creepy, though.

Whoa, I love that vignette ! The pink mirror makes it perfect. Just my style. And YES, I love my bug collection.

For creepy, how 'bout those nasty little Hummel figurines ? Or adult collections of brand new dolls or beanie babies ? Blech.

Precious Moments figurines. Yikes

I think Precious Moments are Precious, but only for a Moment. :)

Taxidermy in multiples creeps me out. I can handle one dead animal head on the wall if I have to, but when they come in packs, I'm outta there!

An adult man with Disney a collection is one of the creepiest things to me. Grow up already!

A lot of doctors also collect antique medical equipment. Blech!

The doll heads remind me of this Halloween set-up in photographer John Purlia's house of a headless doll strategically placed beneath Ana Bagayan's painting "The Irrationality and Inevitability of Being a Puppet."

http://www.johnpurlia.com/Site/News/Entries/2007/10/31_Happy_Halloween!.html

I've seen a collection of human wigs. UGH! Heebee-jeebees!!!

It isn't a collection, but my man's mother has a couple of statues of, like, a chef and a butler, I think, except they're maybe three feet tall and somewhat flattened on the sides? So when you look at their profile, you can see bulbous eyes and protruding noses, and they're holding trays in front, but from head-on, they're extremely flat. I don't know, I've never seen them before, but they are creepy. She has their "chef" holding a martini glass with a fake martini in it. Oh, and she gave my boyfriend a butler. He has many wrinkles on his face and I'm pretty sure he wants to kill me. He used to be in the middle of the room, thanks to the sectional, but after "oh, whoops" tripping over him all the time, I managed to convince my boyfriend to move him into a corner. Now he is partially hidden my a fake tree, and I feel better. I just really hate people-shaped things. Especially statues of servants. But I think real animal bones are kind of neat - as long as they died of natural causes. Definitely no to the doll heads!

My house would frighten you people. LOL. Doll heads, skulls, body parts (fake ones)...rogue taxidermy...oh yeah I'm a freak! I've got all kinds of horror movie memorabilia, some of the stuff I've made.

My kids seem cool with it all too. My 4 year old niece is living with us now and she's proud that she made her severed finger out of latex.

Anyway....as someone else said precious moments figurines creep me out. Something about child like figures doing adult things. Especially the wedding ones...wtf? Or the ones where it seems like they've had a baby.

And religious things. Crucifixes & crucifixion scenes. *shudder*

I hate those little-kid-hiding-in-a-corner dolls. They creep me out. Precious Moments figurines are awful, too. My mother-in-law tried to get us started on a collection of them, and I am so glad we dodged that bullet.

I too have a wee doll head collection that I display proudly in my entrance way.
Highlights include a few of my childhood favorites - Donny and Marie, Farrah Fawcett and a few misc Barbies.

My first thought was nothing! I am working on starting a taxidermy collection (finding things in my budget is tough), and I love things that are quirky and macabre. Then, someone mentioned those dolls that people put in corners. The ones that are supposed to be crying or in time out? Not so much creepy as obnoxious. Especially since the owners always think they are adorable. That is weird to me, thinking a doll made to look like it is a misbehaving or sad child is adorable.

My Nan had my fathers baby teeth glued to what looked to be a miniature plastic black top hat, all around the rim, proudly on display in the china cabinet. Now THAT is disturbing. I'm surprised I'm not in therapy really.

Vintage racist toys. I don't understand why people still collect them! Gollywogs, minstrels, mammie figurines... they just creep me the Hell out! And they really make me worry about the collector and wether I'm gonna make it out of that house in one piece.

Hands.

In junior high my best friend's mom had one of those white ceramic hands -- I think it was meant to hold rings -- in the loo and I hated it. Then she got into it more and pretty soon there was a hand in every room.

Seemed so strange since her style otherwise was sort of a sunny, bohemian, 70s fern and lattice kind of look.

Those creepy hands!!!

yes on the dolls - also on anything "dead" - skulls, insects, etc, and anything that could be looking at me - like masks...

Am quite cowardly.

Taxidermy creeps me out completely because, at it's point of origin, someone (yeah, I consider animals as somebodies, too) had it's life taken away.
Ceramic hands, eyeballs, whatever, don't bother me, but the trophies of murder do!

People who collect billions creep me out.

I love taxidermy and old medical/scientific equipment! The creepiest are those extremely life-like baby dolls, Just Born, I think they're called... Makes me shudder just thinking about it!

black velvet art.

Clown paintings or clown statues. Any kind of doll collection. Precious Moments. Snowbaby anything. Kitten posters. These are a few of my most dreaded things...

My almost-a-sister-in-law's-former-mother-in-law (ouch) had a collection of bells. Nothing creepy about one, but they filled a wall of tightly-placed shelves.

I will never be able to forgive dollheads or mannequins. Yeesh!

Thimble collections are scary to me. I can't help but wonder in the back of my mind if they have fingers in them! That said, when I was about six I had a collection of dead bumblebees I found on the ground in parking lots...I wish I still had them. But I can see how that would be creepy to anyone else!

Large china dolls (designed to be displayed, never played with) in flouncy Victoriana outfits. My great aunt used to make them, and my mother inherited a bunch that she keeps in the rear entry hall of her home.

They're creepy on so many levels. The fact that they're toys that aren't supposed to be played with. The fact that they're dressed like characters from a Thomas Kincaid painting. The fact that they prove there's a market amongst grown women for very expensive, pointless, sugar-frosted dollies. Gaaaaah!!!

I have absolutely no problem with animal parts (I have fossils, animal parts are just fossils that have yet to be lithified, right?), which is probably good as I want to work in natural history... but dolls and doll parts? Yeah, those creep me out. Or anything meant to be obviously 'cute', like ceramic babies or kids or cats with huuuuge eyes. (Which is weird, as I love cats!)

Anything with eyes is pretty much a no-go with me. Unless their smorkin' labbits...bunnies with cigs, now that's cool, as is black velvet art.

My aunt in Maryland has a house full of dolls. It was an absolute nightmare for my sister who is afraid of dolls when we stayed in my aunt's house for a weekend.

Some awesome comments here :) LOL @ arcane :D
People who collect billions creep me out too.
And people who would put a doll in the corner looking sad. Sick.
Porcelain dolls, broken antique dolls and doll heads creep me out.

Creepiest ever: a short wooden ladder propped outside a window of a house with a life-size old fashioned kid-doll on top clutching the ladder and looking in through the window. *shudder*

I do have some taxidermy stuff (and would love a collection of antique medical instruments), but all animal-parts were found (bones etc) and any preserved specimens were originally part of a scientific collection. Anyone who kills an animal for the sake of displaying it in a house does creep me out.

Snowbabies.

Used teabags.

I have the now semi-standard collection of vintage cameras (I swear it was more original when I started) and I've had one roommate who didn't like all the lenses staring at her. I had to keep them all in one place so they didn't catch her off guard.

Not creepy but my boyfriend's walls are covered with puzzles that he put together, glued, and framed. We're talking about those 500 to 1000 piece puzzles whose pictures are either new age stuffs (dolphins swimming in outer space around the earth) or fantasy varieties (busty blonds in metal bikinis riding a polar bear). He thinks they're high art and at last count there are 23 of these "art" hugging his walls. I swore if we ever move in together all those "arts" are going into his man cave.

I collect baby doll heads and I love each and every one of them! I also make doll head paper weights and sell them on Etsy.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/50483002/hot-pink-doll-head-paper-weight

It's an aquired taste I suppose.

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i don't even know what scares me more in that pic -- the doll heads (i'm with you on the creep factor of those!) or the pepto bismol mirror frame...

This post is amusing me to no end.

Collections are what people like, so I'm not sure that there are any that really bother me, but I'd probably do a double take if I went into a house and saw Justin Beiber everywhere.

Whole baby dolls wouldn't creep me out... what gets me is people who collect part of baby dolls... seriously, rows of hands or bowls of heads look like serial killer trophies more than anything.
I actually did a blog post on exactly this topic not long ago: http://rachelplayinghouse.blogspot.com/2011/04/design-trends-i-hate.html

My husband’s very elderly grandparents have a rather large collection of those depressed, porcelain clowns doing different poses/activities. Like one will be selling balloons and the next figurine will be pushing a bicycle…both extremely sad looking. I have no idea what the draw to these would be. It looks like they were bought off QVC or something, because Grandpa puts up their certificates of authenticity in the back of the display case. I’m terrified that we will someday inherit this wonderful, authentic collection.

Grandpa also collects framed 500-1000 piece puzzles in the basement gameroom. My husband loves these, because he remembers helping put them together as a child (the whole family chipped in during holidays and get-togethers). Again, frightened we will inherit someday.

Additional things that creep me out: leprechaun-themed items, music boxes shaped like things other than music boxes playing creepy tinkling music, and pastel painted ceramics that my aunt used to give us as gifts (12” lavender bunny with HUGE eyes…any takers?)

My grandmother has a collection of old plastic dolls from like the 40s that are still in their boxes lining the walls of one of her guest rooms. Every year when the entire family gathers, most people have to sleep in the living room or the basement. So when I got married, my husband and I got that guest room as some kind of honor. My husband was creeped out the whole night because there were dolls staring at us from behind plastic. I, on the other hand, had accepted this as normal since I was five...

@kpaupau, your husband should take pictures of those depressed clowns, framed puzzles, and lavender ceramic bunny and send them to the crap-at-my-parent's-house website. No way am I letting my boyfriend find out about your FIL's collection of framed puzzles.

And if you should inherit those sad clowns, E-bay them. Somebody is going to want them.

I'm very happy to see that none of my collections have been listed here. None of them are odd at all, but I'm still relieved.

(Exception: we do have a few Precious Moments figures. My MIL buys one a year for our daughter- it's a series that's meant to show a baby growing up. So far none of the weird "kids acting like adults" stuff that other peopled (including me) are creeped out by. Also, they are in their boxes somewhere because we have nowhere to display them.)

Collections of posts on AT about collecting really creep me out. I might be so creeped out that I never come back.

Good idea @zenezie. I neglected to mention that all the framed puzzles in question are a variation of "Where's Waldo" style art...crazy cartoons. Give me eye cancer.

Those clowns will never make it to my home. I'm hoping another family member will claim them.

People who never throw out crusty, crinkly, old corsages from old high school dances seem to weird me out. Like they're clinging onto the past.

like the frame

Loved the doll heads, and I had to laugh at the post about the ceramic hands being creepy. I'm left-handed and I collect left hands -- ceramic, wood, glass, etc. They're interesting. I don't know what a Precious Moments figure is, for which I suspect I should be grateful, but I'm with whoever said that Hummel figurines and beanie babies are the stuff of nightmares.

I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet...mask collections are hands down the creepiest things I've ever seen. My dad used to have a Tahitian voodoo mask and it "accidentally" got burnt up...whoops.

These doll heads creep me out. I guess unique collections in ones home creates a conversation piece, which just makes me think people need to find better ways to communicate.

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