He he he... this sounds familiar, there's a woman in my hometown I've known via my mother since I was a kid, she has over 9,000 mice collectibles that she decorates her house with at christmas and then gives home tours, I couldn't find any pics on the internet, but there was this article from ornamentcollectors.com:

"Collector Bobbi Beagle takes the holiday phrase, “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse,” to a whole new level. While the 9,000 mice in her collection don’t stir, some 4,000 of them — all in Christmas themes — do put smiles on faces, especially children's.

At this time of the year, Mrs. Beagle and her husband, Art, open up their Overland Parkway home to neighbors, friends, family and strangers who want to see the very neatly displayed and overwhelming collection. Even Mrs. Beagle admits to the extreme numbers in her collection.

"It's mind-boggling, actually," said Mrs. Beagle. Both she and her husband, who are in their late 60s, are retired.

Mrs. Beagle, affectionately known as "Mrs. Mouse" or the "Mouse Lady" who lives in the "Mouse House," decorated four seven-foot-tall trees with about 700 mice ornaments on each tree.

Why mice and not the conventional collections of snowmen, Santas, snow globes, ornaments, or Christmas villages?

"When I was little I used to love Tom and Jerry, and when my oldest boy, now 46, was 8 he made me a mouse ornament.

"As he got older the mouse got uglier and I kept moving it to the back of the tree. My family kept buying me mice as a joke, and now its grown to this," said Mrs. Beagle, who collects mice at craft shows, garage sales, and through figurine collection companies."

He promises that he will stop when the bear count reaches 10,000. This morning he told me a little girl on a Sunday tour said she wanted to have collection just like him. He said to her “No you don’t; it’s exhausting.”


My uncle (no deceased) blew smoke rings for a photo. He became Captain Puff. His speedboat became “Puff.” Then he and his family bought ceramic dragons at a pottery place in North Carolina. Their den is now covered with dragon objects all because of a family joke.