In my office, there is a shelf with hundreds (okay, let’s be honest, more like a thousand) miniature items. It looks like a child’s dream shelf, filled with superheroes, princesses, dinosaurs, Minecraft pieces, fences, animals of all kinds, food items, and treasure chests. Among the items there are also handcuffs, pill bottles, jails, coffins, skeletons, poker chips, and scary figurines. It is a rather eclectic grouping of items. In front of this six-foot by four-foot shelf i
