Myrtle B. Eldridge (USA) has 9,638 bells that she has collected since the 1980s. The majority of Myrtle’s bells were given to her as gifts from friends and family together with purchases she has made at yard sales and flea markets.

The largest collection of beer bottles belongs to Ron Werner (USA) and consists of 25,866 individual beer bottles as of 27 January 2012 in Carnation, Washington, USA. Ron Werner started his collection at the age of 14. On average, a 1,000 beer bottles are added to the collection every year. Ron also collects other beer memorabilia, such as beer signs, cans, mirrors and tap handles.

The largest collection of bar towels belongs to Robert Begley of Chambersburg, United States, with 2,372 towels representing 27 different countries; which he has been collecting since 1990. Robert has been collecting bar towels since the age of 7 when his grandmother got him interested in collecting wheat pennies. Since then, Robert has been collecting everything from coins, Boy Scout patches, nutcrackers, bar tap handles, beer bottles, pub signs and of course bar towels which range from Abbot Ale to Zyweic.

The largest collection of casino chips and tokens belongs to Bruce and Sue Wunder (both USA), with a total of 554 casino chips and tokens from 554 different casinos, as of 14 May 2009, which they have been collecting since 2000. The collection consists of 449 casino chips and 105 slot tokens.

Yakov L Kofman (USA) has amassed a collection of 16,552 different calendars since 1945, as of 26 October 2008. All of his collection are wallet calendars. Most of them was acquired in former Soviet Union where Mr Kofman is originally from.

The largest collection of clocks belongs to Jack Schoff (USA), who has amassed 1,509 different working clocks as of 8 February 2010, which he has been collecting since 2003. All of the clocks are displayed at his house. His collection includes mantle clocks, grandfather clocks, school house clocks, cuckoo clocks, pendulum clocks, to name a few.

Cecil and Joann Dixon (both USA) have a collection of 6,505 chicken-related items, as of June 2006, that they have amassed for 40 years.

The largest collection of cookbooks belongs to Sue Jimenez (USA & Canada) and consists of 2,970 books as of 14 July 2013, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. This is Sue Jimenez’ second book collection, the first collection was donated to the local library.

The largest collection of Converse shoes belongs to Joshua Mueller (USA) consisting of 1,546 different pairs of Converse shoes in Lakewood, Washington, USA, as of 8 March 2012. Mr Mueller does wear his Converse shoes and has enough to wear a different pair every day for over four years. He goes to great lengths to keep them looking their best, wearing plastic bags on his feet in order to keep them clean when visiting dirty places.

The largest collection of confetti belongs to Casey Larrain (USA), with 1,447 different and unique shapes of confetti, as of 27 April 2008, which she has been collecting since 1983. Her favourites include Wizard of Oz charactesr and Betty Boops shaped confetti.