childhood collections

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  • Sillykitty2121
    Sillykitty2121 Posts: 24 Member
    Rocks, pokemon cards, and cabbage patch kids
  • BamBam125
    BamBam125 Posts: 229 Member
    I started collecting postcards as a child. I still collect them. I only collect them from places I've been to though or ones sent to me by friends and family (aka I don't collect random "vintage" postcards from places I've never been or from people I don't know).

    They are a great thing for a travel lover like me. They're cheap (often 2 or 4 for a dollar), pack well (great for carry on bags), they note where you were (and often when), and the images are often better than anything I can take with my own camera (aeral shots, perfect weather, no under construction/renovations--post cards are great for things like European cathedrals and castles that you can't take a decent shot of in real life).

    I have over a shoe box full of the things now. I had them as a collage on my dorm wall in college (with putty to mount them to the wall so that I didn't have to poke holes in them) and they got a lot of attention then (have you really been to X?!). Since college, they've been in a box but I'm now exploring ways to mount them in my home (like a series of framed collages down a hallway).
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    I've got a 1970 topps football card of my wife's grandfather graded gem mint (pop 1).
  • KodAkuraMacKyen
    KodAkuraMacKyen Posts: 737 Member
    boogers

    Just your own, or were you an equal opportunity collector?

    Yuck. My own boogers only.

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    Holy lord! I just spit water all over my keyboard. Bwahahaha!
  • TakinSexyBack
    TakinSexyBack Posts: 300 Member
    I still have boxes and boxes full of boxes of Garbage Pail Kids Cards at my parents house! I bet they are worth something these days! I also collected those plastic charms you clipped to the long plastic chain necklace and had about a million stickers! Those were the days!
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    I wasn't allowed to collect things.
  • MinMin97
    MinMin97 Posts: 2,674 Member
    I wasn't allowed to collect things.
    How traumatic!!
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Angels. My grandma had quite the collection, blown glass, cloth, wood carved, etc... She died on my 7th birthday and my dad and aunts thought it would be appropriate to give them to me.

    This turned into my family, other grandma and friends buying them for me, mostly in ornament form.
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
    Whales - I still have a ton of them and people still give them to me as gifts.
    Coins - I include $2 bills in this too
    Rocks - I still have people bring me back rocks from other places in the world.
    Foghorn Leghorn - pretty much anything with him on it.
  • whitneyps7
    whitneyps7 Posts: 409 Member
    Pogs (does anyone remember those?)

    YES.

    omg pogs were awesome!!
  • Lanise_10
    Lanise_10 Posts: 432 Member
    Barbies
  • katy84o
    katy84o Posts: 744 Member
    what did you collect when you were a child?- I collected stamps, rocks, keys, marbles, leaves. lol what about you?

    I collected spoons. The tiny fancy spoons that said the destination on the handle. I had over 30 and from various countries and from several states up and down the east coast. I stopped collecting them in early high school.

    I don't know exactly when I started, but I remember seeing a huge case of spoons hanging and I always thought that was cool, so I guess I was trying to get to that one day.
  • Astacia74
    Astacia74 Posts: 166 Member
    Stickers and Star Wars figurines. My parents still have most of my original SW stuff from the late 70's early 80's!!!
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Stamps, electronic stuff, Star Wars stuff, comic books (still have some).

    Oddly, I have a Thermos collection.
  • katy84o
    katy84o Posts: 744 Member
    Pogs (does anyone remember those?)

    YES.

    omg pogs were awesome!!

    I never knew how to play, but my brothers did. I just loved going to the m j designs that sold them and collecting them. I'd spread them all over my floor a stare at my massive collection : )
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    I've never collected anything. Every. And God willing, I'll never start.



    :grumble: Freaks & their Beanie Babies....:grumble:
  • bluefox9er
    bluefox9er Posts: 2,917 Member
    Baseball cards. 44 years later, and I'm still collecting.

    WINNER :-)
  • ThreasaRenee82
    ThreasaRenee82 Posts: 10
    I collected bells, troll dolls, books, rocks, and little odds and end things.
  • MagicalLeopleurodon
    MagicalLeopleurodon Posts: 623 Member
    Feathers, snow globes, rocks
  • jbahrami
    jbahrami Posts: 206 Member
    The metal tabs off of the soda cans. I was cool. lol!
  • pinkcloudrising
    pinkcloudrising Posts: 63
    bruises from *kitten* whippings both at home and at school.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    I had so much Barbie stuff we kept it in a second bedroom: The Barbie Room. Yes, really.

    Also, I loved those stupid rubber bracelets that look like o-rings. When I got a black one, (just like Ricky Schroeder) I *knew* I was finally cool!
  • MiniMichelle
    MiniMichelle Posts: 801 Member
    Key chains (yes, still do) and porcelain dolls (I know I know creepy… but I love them)
  • m0_0m
    m0_0m Posts: 265 Member
    Pez dispensers, Bryer horses, ceramic dog figurines, trolls, pogs (it was all about the the ones that had "poison", "8ball" and "skull" type themes though), R.L. Stein Goosebumps books...lot of stuff!
    I don't collect anything as an adult though.
  • futurestarz
    futurestarz Posts: 510
    bear paws...how weird is that?! lol
  • logicman69
    logicman69 Posts: 1,034 Member
    I collected Transformer comics. I had about 150 and then my mom ended up throwing them all away. I also had a substantial Star Wars toy collection. Its scary to think what THAT would be worth now.
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Baseball cards (thank you, Barry Bonds, for rendering my mint condition rookie card worthless...*kitten*), stuffed animals, collectible spoons (I actually still collect these) & stickers
  • originalkazila
    originalkazila Posts: 200
    Penguins, rocks, knick knacks - the uglier the better.
  • mikey1976
    mikey1976 Posts: 1,005 Member
    gi joes
    wwf wrestlers the big rubber ones
  • Nutella91
    Nutella91 Posts: 624 Member
    paper napkins. i had disney ones too.
    and a weird one - i would collect almost completely used soaps when they become very thin. i still keep the box, it smells great.

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