Painting

I look around the room I am in and realise I am a bit of a collector.  Not a hoarder (I have seen them on tv, and it is like the keeping of things takes over).  I tend to view things in the light of “I control it, it does not control me”)
Anyway I was looking at the paintings on the wall and realize we have a few of them.  Many we have were from a mutual mate who was getting rid of heaps (I would actually say he was a hoarder).  When we saw some of them, we decided to give them a good home.    There are a number we have we got like that.  Many of them are Australian scenes.  Bush scenes, early aboriginal scenes, homesteads, and classic bush scenes.
A couple came from a home my mum was in.  She was looking after someone who was not all there.  The home had paintings from when someone else was there.  They are pretty old.
We do like aboriginal art and Merril has a couple of pictures on the wall done by artists from central Australia.  I have a couple I think are touristy rip offs.  I like em, but I do not think they are genuine.
They reckon (and I have no idea how true it is) a collection of something constitutes at least three.  To that end I have often sought to have three of a particular thing.  I am really a bit that way with my stamp collection.  A set may be five but if I have three I am happy. (of course if I have five there is a good chance I am even happier).
There was a stage when the Reject Shop was selling paintings.  They have not done it for ages, but I happened to be collecting paintings at the time.  I generally went for sets of three.  I was really pleased and amazed at some I got and the price I got them at.
We have reached the stage where we do not need any more, but we like what we have a lot.