IceInSpace Xmas 2009 Competition - What Did You Collect When You Were a Kid?
Entries Open from Wednesday 2nd December 9am until Friday 11th December 3pm (AEDST).
To celebrate Xmas 2009, IceInSpace is running a competition to reward our loyal and active members.
Most of us have collected something at some stage during our life - mostly when we were young I guess. For me it was stamps and coins. I had albums of them, and loved the thrill of getting something new to add to the collection.
What did you collect when you were a kid? What do you collect now?
How To Enter
To be in the running, all you have to do is post a (relevant) reply in this IceInSpace Xmas 2009 Competition - What Did You Collect When You Were a Kid? entries thread.
The members who have replied will go into a draw, and 12 lucky winners will be pulled out of the virtual barrel. You have to post your reply between Wednesday 2nd December 2009 9am, and Friday 11th December 2009, 3pm (AEDST).
12 prize winners will receive a Young Collectors Space Coins Album, courtesy of the Perth Mint, valued at $79.95 each.
About the Space Coins Album
Celebrating the planets, explorers and stars of our solar system, the coins are encased in a lavish illustrated album that also includes a fact-packed guide to planets, a DVD about asteroids, two posters and an activity book to help kids retain knowledge about space.
About Young Collectors
In 2008, the historic Perth Mint released Young Collectors – an exciting Australian legal tender coin program exclusively designed for children to inspire their interest in the noble hobby of coin collecting. Young Collectors is proving to be extremely popular among primary school-aged children, and with parents and grandparents looking to buy traditional toys and gifts with educational value and enduring appeal.
In response to the overwhelming success of the inaugural series, The Perth Mint has released the next chapter in the Young Collectors story. The 2009 Young Collectors coin series will blast the imagination of children and adults into orbit, with nine Space $1 Coins each featuring a fascinating design – astronauts, rockets, shuttles, probes and many more.
Rules and Conditions
IceInSpace offers this promotional giveaway as a service to its loyal and active members.
The giveaway is open to registered IceInSpace Forum members including the moderators. The moderators are volunteers and have had no involvement in organising this competition, so they are eligible to enter. The administrators (mojo and iceman) are not eligible to enter.
This thread will be open for entries from 9am Wednesday 2nd December, until 3pm December 11th, 2009 AEDST.
On Friday December 11th 2009 at approx 4pm, the 12 winners will be drawn out of a virtual barrel and will be contacted via forum Private Message and may have their names displayed on this site. Make sure your profile is setup to receive PM's and ensure your email address is valid so that you can be contacted!.
All winners must acknowledge their prize within 3 days of the draw. In the event that a winner cannot be contacted, a new name will be drawn from the barrel.
I too collected stamps, I also collected Drink bottles which I got 20c per bottle that was good money then. When my dad took my sister and me to Darwin to help rebuild after Cyclone Tracy he was a cabinet maker, we would go to the Greyhound races the track gave all the kids 2c a glass to bring them back to the bar. Sometimes I would go down to the local golf course and put empty tin cans into the creek and check out the eels which would like to live in the cans. We have currently got Olympic coins and stamps.
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Well I started to collect matchbox cars, textas, comics, stamps and the odd coin, and then we moved when I was 9 – lost the majority in the move except for the stamps. LOL half were brand new, early to late seventies. They are still at my mums house. Never really got back into it.
Rocks, books and stamps. I was a bit of a geek when I was little. LOL
I still like to fossick around for interesting stones, my love for books hasn't diminished at all but I've only bought 2 lots of stamps in recent years.
I used to collect stamps for a few years in my childhood and through it wanted to find out more about each of the countries by reading different geography books
Never realy collected anything collectable, like stamps etc.
I did manage to collect all sorts of electronics though when I was a kid, if something was being thrown out and had electronic components in it... old tv's old radios etc etc... I'd tear it appart to see how it worked and kept all the good stuff... Had boxes and boxes full of electronic 'good junk'.... still do!
My first memory of collecting things was at the age of about 6. I built & collected the plastic glueable model aircraft kits. Had 40 or 50 in every possible area in my bedroom. The next thing was science fiction books. Had at least 200 of them. Then I started to collect eyepieces for my homebuilt 8" newt. All 0.96" EP's of course.
I really try to curb my desire to collect anything these days, although whenever my favorite bands release a new album I usually can't resist!
Bugs and mount them on a board. Plastic models (cars, boats, planes and tanks) had around 500 models of various sizes on shelves in my bedroom.
Almost forgot the Butterfly and other insect Cards from Tea packets eg LanChoo Tea.
Adrian
My main collectable as a kid were Tazo's, those small collectable disks that you could "battle" your friends with, and were more often than not found inside potato chip packs. They came in all sorts of different sets, my favourites were the Warner Brothers character series and the Star Wars series which included limited edition holographic pieces
I used to collect rocks, cards from bubble gum packets, coins, stamps, tractor pamphlets ( used to write away for them... I had a sales rep turn up one day hoping to sell a squillion dollars worth of earth moving equipment ... I would've been 8 I think...), motorcycle pamphlets and manuals, stickers, and then as I got older I started collecting tools, motorbikes, telescopes... toys in general .
I used to collect "Baseball Cards"... I had complete Topps sets for several years...I still have them bundled in my garage.
I used any excess money I could scrape together to buy cards and then would trade the duplicates with my friends...it was quite the thing!
Oh, off the beaten path, as a lad I collected "farm" hats...in particular farm supply hats (pesticides, machinary, retailers)...I think I had close to 400 hats when I got married...funny, I can't seem to fins them all after this last move. Must speak to my wife....
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I collected stamps as a kid. We would get the packs of used stamps (about 100 or maybe more) from BigW. Kept us busy for hours sorting them all out.
Started buying first day covers a few years ago but that just gets too expensive. They put out too many of them. These days I just put aside a set of Christmas stamps.
I used to collect beer bottle caps and -labels, the latter being peeled off after soaking the bottles in water overnight. We have a lot of local breweries with different types of beer in Denmark where I'm originally from. When holidaying in another part of the country my parents would always ensure they tried a new local kind of beer so I could get my hands on the caps and labels.
Apart from that, I was also into stamps for a while, but otherwise it was Lego. Not really in the sense of collecting, but it was the only thing I ever wanted for xmas and birthdays, so I amassed quite a bit over the years. Now it's in the basement waiting for junior to grow big enough to take over... (he's only 1 month)
I too was in the Tazo era Smiths chips I belive. (and to think my nick name was chunky draws..?? i wonder why I have still stacked up at my old boys house in the NT, a full set of the First series and a full set of the Simpsons First series after that i think i got out of the Tazo trend or i got sick of eating chips ... dunno which one really.
Besides collecting the obligatory empty beer bottles (and No I didn't drink them ) for pocket money my main collection was band/group related T-shirts right up until my late twenties to early thirties.
Basketball cards
Hats. Family travelled all around the globe. I had hats from many places.
Coasters.
Phantom comics: i still collect them today.
Minerals and gems. Even specific crystallised salts (sulfates in particular make awesome colours when formed with various metals.)
Foreign currencies. As per previous mention of travelling family.
Rare or limited edition coin sets; dinosaurs, ninja turtles, anzacs etc.
... I would've been 8 I think...), motorcycle pamphlets and manuals, stickers, and then as I got older I started collecting tools, motorbikes, telescopes... toys in general 
