Soap bars

         According to Weber (2018), Carol Vaughan from England collected 1331 bars of soap from all over the world between 1991 and 2009. 

She likes to find some special and unique soaps in the world, she loves to find ones that might seem unusual. 

She found one of her favorites near home, in a local shop. 

Her favorite soap is shaped like Santa Claus’s head. It only goes to prove that you don’t have to go far from home to start collecting.

She became a local celebrity and also,  she received the Guinness World Record for her collection. 

Her collecting started as a way to pass the time while she was caring for her mother Ivy May, who died in 1991. 

She also had a huge collection of carrier bags, more than 600 biscuit tins and 850 mugs piled up at her home.

A really sad fact is that she died at the age of 67 and there was not enough money for a funeral. 

So the idea that was carried out was to sell her wide range of collections to other collectors to perform their wishes for her funeral. 

Miss Vaughan had requested to be cremated and have a funeral at Perry Barr Crematorium, where her mother was buried. 

Her neighbors describe her as a very happy person, full of energy, so they were very shocked by her death.