I [just learned about jquery's .makeArray](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3340027/adding-links-to-an-array-with-jquery) and I am trying to use JSON.stringify to store the array in localStorage but I am having unexpected results.

This works:

```
var links = {'one': 1, 'two': 2 };
var setstr = JSON.stringify(links);

localStorage.setItem('strlinks', setstr);
var getstr = localStorage.getItem('strlinks');
console.log(getstr); //Returns what's expected - '{"one":1, "two":2}'

```

This doesn't:

```
var links = $.makeArray($('a'));

alert(links); //Returns list of links
var setstr = JSON.stringify(links);

localStorage.setItem('strlinks', setstr);
var getstr = localStorage.getItem('strlinks');
console.log(getstr); //Returns '[]'

```

Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?