When you don't know how many snow globes you own, you are officially a collector. "You may never know what the impulse is, but once it starts there's no stopping ... has more: 105 snow globes.

Most striking of all, however, is hearing how some of the first snow globes came to be more than 100 years ago ... The added particles floated to the bottom and no longer increased light.

We’re stuck in a snowstorm with no idea where ... actually shaking the globe a little more each time. The more we try to get things to settle down the more we kick the snow up and send it ...