Collecting, then, should not be explained as “women collect this” and “men collect that” in any rigid sense. In that sense, collecting is not simply a private preference but a behavioral archive of upbringing, identity, and social expectation. Collecting also has a neuropsychological dimension that resists broad gender explanations. If gender contributes at all, it likely does so by filtering the route into collecting, not by dictating the outcome. Gender may nudge collecting choices at the margins; yet the larger story is that people collect because objects help them remember, organize, and express who they are.