What did you collect as a kid.

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Bubblegum Cards

American Civil War
Mars Attacks (theres a full set going on eBay for £700)
Batman
Beatles
Monkees
Man from Uncle
Outer Limits (these now go for £2 to £3 each)

PG Tips Cards (from the packet)

I used to collect cigarette cards as well (from relatives who smoked) and had a huge collection (Mainly footballers and cricketers) . Sadly these have all been lost apart from 1 album of vintage cars.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

As if it wasn't bad enough for the animal being gently fucked to death by you.

I'll take Barcon's word for it!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Bubblegum Cards

American Civil War
Mars Attacks (theres a full set going on eBay for £700)
Batman
Beatles
Monkees
Man from Uncle
Outer Limits (these now go for £2 to £3 each)

PG Tips Cards (from the packet)

I used to collect cigarette cards as well (from relatives who smoked) and had a huge collection (Mainly footballers and cricketers) . Sadly these have all been lost apart from 1 album of vintage cars.

I remember collecting the set of dogs. No1 was a Bedlington terrier. Yer don't see many of 'em about, but I saw one on the Rochdale Canal a few months back, stopped and declared to its owner "That's a Bedlington terrier!" And I told him the tale of my PG tips collection of dogs. Unfortuntately it's the only one I remember.

 

[FCBarca]

Matchbox cars

 

[sir baconface]

At primary school age:

Alleys (sp?) and bollies
Bubble gum footballer cards
PG Tips tea cards. The series I remember best was freshwater fish.
Dinkeys

 

[halfmist]

Airfix kits. I had loads of the WW2 stuff. Then one year I bought a box of bangers, taped one to each plane and lit them. Quite spectacular but not sure whether it covered all the effort that had gone in to building them.

 

[quiet_riot]

Keyrings.


Donated all mine to a local kid with cancer who wanted to have the world record biggest collection

 

[denislawsbackheel]

In no particular order

Bubblegum cards
Robinson golly badges
PG Tips cards and full albums
Airfix models
Vinyl records
Stamps
Cigarette cards (Christ I am that old)
Green Shield stamps
And how could I forget, City programmes, first team and reserve for the tokens we never got to use!

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

My mam's fanny hairs. I was saving them up for a collage of David Bellamy.

 

[asahartford1]

Seems to have gone out of fashion a bit with today’s youngsters as they have it all but I seem to remember collecting stuff was pretty popular back in the day.

I had a few.

Beer mats - no surprise there as my dad worked in a Brewery and was in the pub a lot!

Marbles - used to love a game of this and had a good number of these when younger

Also stamps which my uncle used to give to me when I visited him. Used to buy all those sets that the post office issued every few months.

Fuck knows where they all ended up. Probably would have been worth a few quid now.

Anyone else have a collecting hobby or was I just a freak?

All those plus matchboxes, bottle tops, golf balls, city stuff.