In the Kennon family it has been said that several members of the family were and are collectors, a great example I have seen of this is my grandmother Dorris Kennon , I asked her if she knew she was a collector and she said "yes" and I asked her why, she told me that she "always feels like something is perfectly good and one day she might need this item.” I then asked her when she started feeling this way and she said, "When I was a kid there were so many of us that I always felt like I didn't have things, so when I found something that I liked it, I kept it, it started with combs and brushes and later it became more things. , when my whole family was looking for something, they would ask me first if I had seen it and 9 times out of 10 I had it. (D. Kennon, personal communication, October 7, 2015) I asked her if she felt like our family myth of being a collector had anything to do with it and she responded that she was "not Sure, she never thought of it that way, but several members of our family hoard items the same way. (D. Kennon, personal communication, October 07,