RUCHHOFT: I was already kind of weird, so I just leaned into it.ĪLFONSO: Ruchhoft isn't alone in her attachment to unique collectibles. Why do this? But the uniqueness is exactly what draws her to it. Now, at this point, you may be asking the question that a lot of social media users asked after Ruchhoft posted a picture of her collection on Reddit. He owns a South Carolina shop that sells fountain pens. That's very interesting.ĪLFONSO: That's Chris Henline. And that's kind of comforting, I guess.ĪLFONSO: The collection is even more unique because these balls aren't meant to be saved or collected.ĬHRIS HENLINE: We have people that collect fountain pens and collect ink, but I have not seen the little balls inside of ink cartridges. And I get carried away in it, but I don't get distracted. RUCHHOFT: And it's like just a little constant thing, where I sit down, and I do this one thing. She's the owner of a unique and perplexing collection - hundreds of small, tiny, purplish balls that are found in fountain pens' ink cartridges kept stuffed in an IKEA desk.ĬHARLOTTE RUCHHOFT: So nowadays, I'd say that the most recent feeling that I have been feeling about this is, like, a lot of nostalgia because I remember, like, how young and how eager I was when I started this.ĪLFONSO: The now 24-year-old Ruchhoft started collecting the balls 10 years ago.
But that hasn't stopped Charlotte Ruchhoft, who lives in North Germany near the Baltic Sea. NPR's Fernando Alfonso explains.įERNANDO ALFONSO, BYLINE: In the age of Marie Kondo ruthlessly editing one's possessions, the idea of collecting things has become quaint. And now the story of - let's just call it an unusual collection.
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