I don't collect information with objects, but I always turn things over in my hand and arrange little, insignificant trinkets and tools. I have always arranged them so textures and colors match up, as well. I like a little blue cubed necklace I have as I imagine the separate little cubes. I open and close my protractor with fascination in the little dip its closed form creates. Sometimes certain objects imprint themselves in my mind and I draw them consistently.
I also feel textures for everything I see, which might alternatively have something to do with it.