One can collect different things as a hobby. People interested in fashion can collect jewelry. One advantage of collecting jewelry is that you can wear your jewelry and always look well turned out. My mom has always loved baubles. She has bought beautiful artificial jewelry, and I remember seeing boxes and boxes of costume jewelry all over the house as a child. The boxes multiplied over the years. As she got older, she preferred gold jewelry as she considered it an investment. I’m not too particular about the kind of jewelry I wear, except that it needs to be made of surgical steel since I’m allergic to most artificial jewelry. My mom’s collection includes semi-precious stones, silver jewelry, oxidized silver, beaded jewelry, plastic jewelry and even wooden jewelry. Some of the semi-precious stones in her collection include topaz, tiger eye, Indian Jade, lapiz lazuli, malacite, coral, rubies, moonstone, pearl etc. A couple of my primary school friends have taken to ma...