There are people out there who collect things that others would just not consider collectable. Not that they would be unworthy of someone’s efforts to collect, just that it would not be something that most would consider collecting. One such thing is the modern slow cooker; most would not consider collecting these – sure it is understandable that many would consider themselves enthusiasts of slow cooking and that they might own several different types of slow cooker for the purposes of different types of cooking – however few would likely consider this activity to be collecting and the individual to be a collector of slow cookers. Indeed there are a number of slow cooking enthusiasts with a few different slow cookers in their arsenal, and companies such as Rival, the maker of the Crock Pot brand of slow cooker, actually market different models of slow cooker for different scales or sizes of cooking,so it is understandable for home cooks to have a need or desire to own more than one model of slow cooker. The idea of collecting slow cookers however can be understood in the terms of it as a productive hobby if someone cooks with them on a regular basis; I suppose that if someone had the time and inclination (and space) to store their older model, non-functioning slow cookers out of a sense of nostalgia then it might be considered to be something other than purely a functional pastime for them. In these cases it is not likely that they are collecting the appliances in question for their salvage value – indeed they would likely be remiss to actualy see them salvaged for their parts despite any potential value that they might possess for such purposes. I can imagine a collector not being too motivated to make their acqusitions based on their utilitarian value as potential Rival crock pot replacement parts, eh? Honestly, I believe that any such collection would have had to start out of simple functionality or past usage: the person who, after a few years of acquiring slow cookers, found them self with an unintended collection and just let it continue from there until their storage began to look like the shelves of a charity store like the Salvation Army or Value Village where you will find shelves filled with many different used appliances. True collector’s gold for someone out there…