Thank you Joanna from #ToyTalesCA for the wonderful article highlighting my updated #GuinnessWorldRecord & announcing the release of my new book How It All Began.

Collector and Guinness World Records holder, Deb Hoffmann, has published her first book exploring how collecting has enriched her life and paved the way for experiences of a lifetime.

In How It All Began: How Collecting Items Became Collecting Experiences, Hoffmann examines her journey from a casual collector of Winnie the Pooh objects to earning Guinness Word Records recognition for the largest collection of Winnie the Pooh memorabilia.

“I am pretty sure I have a “collector gene” in my DNA. Since I was little, I’ve collected everything from Snoopy items to Virgin Mary statues to novelty phones,” Hoffmann shares with Toy Tales. “It was the novelty phone collecting which led me to reconnect with Pooh from my childhood. I have loved Pooh since I was a little girl. He has always been in my heart. Pooh collecting ‘stuck’ and here I am 25 years later with almost 24,000 Pooh collectibles,” she reflects.

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