‘WE'RE A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!'

Lindy has learned to love her husband’s quirky collection

- Emma Levett

When Lindy Abbott opened the anniversary gift from her husband Neil, she had to laugh. It was a stylised silver matchstick necklace with the words, “You’re my perfect match,” engraved on it.

“It showed he loved me more than his matches after all,” she jokes to Woman’s Day.

The long-suffering wife of Australia’s largest collector of match paraphernalia, Lindy says she’s always kept her sense of humour over Neil’s quirky hobby.

“When we first met it was pretty controlled and he only had a couple of boxes,” says the 62-year old Canberra grandmother. “It only got out of hand about 20 years ago when he started buying other people’s collections.”