Why do people collect things? - a thread for school students from Vecpiebalga, Latvia and anyone else interested :).
Why do people collect things? What's your opinion? Please write a post of at least 40 words about a collection you have, would like to make or about someone else's collection. Please use the past simple and present perfect.
Fire away, Vecpiebalga Secondary School English teacher Klavs K.
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My deceased second-cousin-once-removed's maternal great auntie had a walnut glass-enclosed curio cabinet chock full of absolutely grotesque cheap porcelain dust catchers - mostly figurines and saltcellars - that she surreptitiously purloined over the years from salubrious palatial mansions of well-heeled politicians, which, of course, were never missed by their erstwhile owners.
- My deceased second-cousin-once-removed's maternal great auntie had a walnut glass-enclosed curio cabinet chock full of absolutely grotesque cheap porcelain dust catchers - mostly figurines and saltcellars - that she surreptitiously purloined over the years from salubrious palatial mansions of well-heeled politicians, which, of course, were never missed by their erstwhile owners.
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My deceased second-cousin-once-removed's maternal great auntie had a walnut glass-enclosed curio cabinet chock full of absolutely grotesque cheap porcelain dust catchers - mostly figurines and saltcellars - that she surreptitiously purloined over the years from salubrious palatial mansions of well-heeled politicians, which, of course, were never missed by their erstwhile owners.
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