Jackie Campbell’s “addiction” started 19 years ago with a simple saucepan.

Jackie Leatherman/News-Herald Photo Standing in her kitchen, Jackie Campbell has been collecting Campbell’s soup paraphernalia for 19 years — ever since she married her husband, Tim Campbell. And no, neither have any relation to the soup company.

Campbell’s is written in red on the white pot in the classic cursive handwriting that adorns millions of soup cans worldwide. Next to Campbell’s, there are small cartoonish pictures of turnips, carrots, tomatoes and peppers.

It was that simple — then.

“From there, it just went crazy,” she said.

An unofficial Today’s News-Herald estimate now places her Campbell’s collection at more than 400 individual items — and that doesn’t include her Christmas tree adorned entirely with Campbell’s ornaments or her individual dishes in her kitchen set.

“I slowly started buying little pieces and before I knew it, I had thousands of pieces,” she said. “I’m hoping that if it’s out there, I have it by now.”

There’s no way to describe the Campbell household once the front door opens — other than instantaneously knowing they collect Campbell’s items — anything and everything they can get their hands on.

Even the living room carpet and countertops are red, and all four of the visiting grandchildren Wednesday had red somewhere in their outfits. Campbell, herself, was wearing a Campbell’s soup sweater and dangling soup can earrings.

A Campbell’s Christmas village — complete with a Campbell’s soup factory — and nine other buildings and 25 figurines sits on display behind the Christmas tree. The tree has a Campbell’s soup can at the top instead of the traditional star.

Campbell said it takes her three non-stop hours to place all of the ornaments on her tree. She won’t even begin to guess how many ornaments she has.

The entertainment center is filled with at least 23 glass Campbell’s car figurines and six dolls, and an oversized Campbell’s racing car and two Campbell’s doll banks sit on top of the center.

On the ledge running near the living room ceiling, there is an oversized Campbell’s wagon, and at least seven tins. A Campbell’s soup can rug hangs on the wall, two Campbell’s kid’s dolls sit in a rocker, and at least three Campbell’s soup blankets are found draped on furniture. And a glass “Campbell’s” lamp sits on an end table, and another one hangs in the dining room.

That’s the living room. There is still the dining room, kitchen and laundry room to go.

A glass case fits perfectly into the corner of the dining room and holds at least 48 dolls. The kitchen table had place mats, soup bowls and cups ready for the grandkids’ Campbell’s chicken noodle lunch and hot cocoa.

A spice rack with 24 containers hangs on the kitchen wall — for display only considering the price tag: $552. The ledge running around the top of the kitchen holds at least 42 tins, three cookie jars, a set of glasses, and 47 Campbell’s soup cups, there are four Campbell’s cutting boards in the kitchen, three Campbell’s dishes filled with snacks, three more cookie jars, and even two small Campbell’s plates sit underneath the salt and pepper grinder — which were not Campbell’s, by the way. But there were at least two sets of Campbell’s salt- and peppershakers on the counter.

A napkin holder, a paper towel holder, potholders, cookbooks, two spoon rests, coffee cups, three thermometers, two utensil holders, two canister sets, a singing clock and two rugs — all Campbell’s. A Campbell’s table, message chalkboard and a purse sat near a red phone.

The laundry room is adorned with at least 34 signs, puzzles, wall hangings, stickers, and there were at least 23 magnets on the refrigerator — all Campbell’s.

Even the key ring holder was a Campbell’s box.

And there were at least 21 cans of Campbell’s soup in the pantry — all chicken noodle soup except for a few cans of her favorite: split pea and ham.

Not to mention the sand rail that has been converted to Campbell’s soup – complete with a Campbell’s ice chest on the back and a sticker that reads: “got crackers?”

And yes, the Campbell family passes out cans of soup when they head for the Imperial Sand Dunes in Southern California.

The dog’s name is Cami Sue — short for, you guessed it, Campbell’s Soup.

“Do you think I’ve over done it?” Campbell asked the Today’s News-Herald during the unofficial count Wednesday. “It’s not the Campbell’s product, it’s …because it’s my last name.”

She also determined Wednesday that a tin hanging on her laundry room wall picturing Campbell’s soup cans arranged like the American flag was not an original. If it had been, that price tag would have been $46,200, according to her Campbell’s collection appraisal book.

“It’s the most expensive thing in this book,” she said. “I almost had a heart attack.”

She said her favorites are three cookie jars that she has, just because they are “cute.”

Campbell admits she has an addiction to buying anything with Campbell’s on it, and she said she doesn’t plan on stopping any time soon. She said she finds most of her goods at antique stores or online.

After she married her husband, Tim Campbell, she told herself that she would never get sucked into the Campbell’s collectible world, unlike a few members of his family.

And then her aunt gave her that pot.

“I just never thought a kitchen would look good in red,” she said.

You may contact the reporter at jleatherman@havasunews.com.