First Thing You Remember Collecting As A Kid.

[LWashington]

The thread title "Way Out West" jogged an early childhood memory of mine. I thought the first thing I collected would have been football stickers for either 1976 or 1978, matchbox cars or toy soldiers. Now I realise before that I'd been taken to the doctors ill and from the post office, next to the chemists she bought me this.

She must have regretted it because every time we went near the post office, I would pester her for another one until I got the whole collection.

 

[Thenumber1blue]

The Beano membership pack, it was like a dream. Had to wait about 2 months for it with no communication back then.

 

[Xiphos]

Airfix models, ships, planes soldiers etc, my favourite was HMS Victory and of course Spitfires

 

[vonkeynotvenky]

Airfix models, ships, planes soldiers etc, my favourite was HMS Victory and of course Spitfires

This..I remember my best was a huge Bentley it must have cost my mum a fortune, and stamps used to buy them from the newsagents in small plastic bags.

 

[Zubrman]

PG Tips picture cards which came free with the tea and you stuck them in the free albums. I remember the one that was released in 1969 to coincide with the moon landing.

 

[Xiphos]

This..I remember my best was a huge Bentley it must have cost my mum a fortune, and stamps used to buy them from the newsagents in small plastic bags.

Brilliant, but how many tubes of those little crappy tubes of Airfix glue would it take to put that together?

 

[JULES]

mid 60`s, remember collecting man from uncle cards, American civil war and some kind of space aliens, 6d for 3 cards and some right shitty bubble gum. If I
remember, when you had the full set of 48 ? if you turned them over and placed them together in order they made a poster . anyone else of you old bastards remember these ?

 

[Zubrman]

mid 60`s, remember collecting man from uncle cards, American civil war and some kind of space aliens, 6d for 3 cards and some right shitty bubble gum. If I
remember, when you had the full set of 48 ? if you turned them over and placed them together in order they made a poster . anyone else of you old bastards remember these ?

I wasn't alive during the American Civil War.

 

[Pleatfooted]

Matchbox cars

 

[Magicpole]

I used to buy Marvel comics. I wish I had kept them, probably worth money now. Football cards was a big thing too.