Originally Posted by Ametrine
My son has been into gauges since he was three. Oh, and clocks. (He's busted at least six of those.)

He loves compasses (could read them at 3.5)and any other gauge (like compression gauges, etc.) He has been into temperature gauges for at least a year and loves to compare Celsius and Fahrenheit.

He "bee-lines" to any fire extinguishers to check out their "status".

He has a pedometer that he wears occasionally, too.

I was telling him today to put away his collection of stuff. He has such a wide range of "odds and ends": Dominoes, Marbles, Broken Gauges, Clocks, Mexican Jumping Beans, Mardigras Beads, Thermometers, Watches, Etch-A-Sketch, Gears (from a toy), Blocks, a Stopwatch, Calculators, Magic 8-Ball, Rubiks Cube....

Does your child's stash of collectables look similar?

It's been nearly two years since I posted this hodge-podge list of items my son is interested in.

Update: He's still into gauges, but not like he was. He still has a mess of this-and-that in his room and has some difficulty deciding what can go. (Can't keep it all, little man.) He speaks with warmth about things he has given to consignment or charity, and I admit I sometimes feel guilty for making him purge. He sees value in so many things and as he matures, he sees the value in things he used to own and asks why he had to give them up.

Some days I worry that he will turn into a hoarder.

Anyway, he seems to be between obsessions at the moment. I wonder what is next.