That’s balmy!

Get lippy: Teenager Megan Baker, above, amassed a whopping 1,061 lip balms from all over the world to smash the record for largest collection. But unlike many collectors, Megan, from Uckfield, East Sussex, actually uses hers.

Hole lot of trouble: Retired teacher Peter Duffell, 82, spent 50 years collecting 204 hole punches dating back as far as the 1800s. But he was forced to sell his prized possessions after wife Gill complained it had turned into an “obsession”.

Bin it: Remember 80s game show 3-2-1? Staffordshire couple Neil Stubbs, 45, and Michelle Finney, 51, love it so much that they have spent thousands on memorabilia – including a shrine to its grinning character Dusty Bin. Neil said: “Everyone thinks we’re crazy.”

Pipe down: Danny Fleming, of Grimsby, has spent about £130,000 on 105 sets of bagpipes. Now 52, he started his collection at the age of 10.

Dolled up: Mechanic Bob Gibbins has a collection of 240 rubber, silicone and inflatable love dolls, valued at more than £100,000. The 64-year-old from Madley, Herefordshire, loves having afternoon tea with his plastic pals and staging photoshoots in his bungalow. Cone ranger: David Morgan, 77, holds the world record for greatest number of traffic cones owned – more than 500. He claims to have invented the plastic marker and boasts cones from as far afield as Finland, Kuwait and Malaysia. Collector queen: Royal superfan Margaret Tyler, 75, from London, has been collecting memorabilia for 45 years and has enough to fill five rooms. Prized pieces include a solar-powered model of the queen and a £1,200 bust of Prince Charles, while there is a mural of Princess Diana on her ceiling.

Won’t go far: Former

Tube engineer

George

Crupenschi,

57, has spent more than

£10,000 on

Oyster London travel cards – all of which are empty.

He owns more than 1,000, keeps them in a binder and insists he has no regrets over his expensive hobby.

Busy with the fizzy:

Brighton man John Burley, 72, boasts a collection of more than 600 Coca-cola bottles and has built a shed to house them all. He started collecting in the 1950s and has special bottles commemorating events including the marriage of Charles and Diana.

Gone bananas:

Another label enthusiast is Christopher Crawcour, who has spent 25 years picking stickers off fruit. The 61-year-old ex-greengrocer keeps them in nine lever-arch files at home in Southend-on-sea, Essex. It’s not even the biggest collection of fruit stickers in the world, however – that honour is held by a man in France.