A woman has decided to send her whopping collection of 2,000 bars of soap to auction. Stephanie Weaver, 78, has built up the collection, largely from hotel bathrooms across the world, for over the last 50 years.
The retired bookkeeper, with two children and four grandchildren, has decided now is the time to allow someone else to build on what she started, reports the Derby Telegraph.
She said: “It all started on family holidays with my daughters when they were young. We used to like going abroad to places like Spain, France and Italy and enjoyed some European road trips.“Whenever I went into a hotel the first thing I would do is go into the bathroom to see if there was any soap.
If there was I saved it as a memento. I used to take spare soap with me to use. I just liked to collect different soaps as a memory of my stay. “They mounted up and up over the years.
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