IceInSpace Xmas 2009 Competition - What Did You Collect When You Were a Kid? - Page 2

tnbk00 (Daniel) · #21 02-12-2009, 05:01 PM

Cricket, football and movie cards

I used to have a full set of ghostbusters II collector cards...

Esseth (Alan) · #22 02-12-2009, 05:37 PM

Ho hum, where to start... Well it would have started with stamps, but as most people find, stamps are boring. I soon discovered that and moved on to Tazos for a short time. To this very day I still need one more of the initial series to complete it.

Then came the big hitter, and I'm surprised that other people have not said it sooner. LEGO!
My room was covered in the stuff; I had complete areas of my room allocated to the particular genres of LEGO. Castles in that corner, Pirates in the other and a massive cityscape down the middle with streets and cars and trucks... you name it lol.

Later in life there was also Pokemon, Wheel of Time and Starwars CCG cards and then later again I did Warhammer for a time... Theses cost the most by far.

kinetic (Steve) · #23 02-12-2009, 06:30 PM

I was obsessed with space from a young age.
I collected books about Space and Astronomy.
I have some beautiful old Astronomy texts from my Mum's
grandfather who loved the sea and the stars.
It certainly rubbed off on me!

I collected news clippings about space, in particular the
Voyager and Viking missions.
Then the Shuttle program started in the early 80s and I
collected everything about them...missions, crew names etc.
I still have all of this and it's a bit bizarre looking back through
it

It's in a scrapbook form and I don't think I will ever bring
myself to throw it all out!

Steve

cookie8 (Vincent) · #24 02-12-2009, 06:55 PM

Well...stamps, bus tickets with neat numbers and WW2 picture cards from buying bubble gum.

Kal (Andrew) · #25 02-12-2009, 08:13 PM

I collected comics. I still have some, around 800 or so.

Nowdays I have a small collection of poker chips, including an illegal (illegal underground gaming room) from circa 1940-1950. I got that as a thank-you for sending off a chip from star city casino to a US collector.

manny · #26 02-12-2009, 10:28 PM

Stamps since 1960 still do and the last 10 years wines

cheers Manny

MrB (Simon) · #27 02-12-2009, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkyViking

I used to collect beer bottle caps and -labels, the latter being peeled off after soaking the bottles in water overnight.

HAH!!
I've been doing that for a few years now, still doing it.
If I travel overseas I'll keep the labels and caps.
Got heaps of them now from trips to Germany and Belgium... plus others from all the imported beers I've bought over the years, and some of the better local stuff.
Eventually I will have a bar at home and will use the labels as wallpaper, the bottle caps will be used as the bar-top, set in potting resin or under glass or something.
Also have a rather large collection of coasters collected from around the world.

I like beer.
Good beer.. none of this CUB or Lion Nathan cr*p.

Grahame (Grahame) · #28 03-12-2009, 01:10 AM

I got into the habit of collecting phonecards on my way to and from school would check all the phone booths for any that people had thrown away. Made quite a bit of money by selling the rare and unique ones to collectors of the day too

Still have a massive collection of them somewhere i think.

Octane (Humayun) · #29 03-12-2009, 02:10 AM

Overseas train and bus and airline tickets and city maps, etc. I love travelling. I want to spend the rest of my life doing it and photographing my journeys.

Oh, and, IRC quotes and moderated posts.

Regards,
Humayun

circumpolar (Matt) · #30 03-12-2009, 06:17 AM

KID
I collected Matchbox cars and coins. I had a really good collection (I thought) and still have most of the coins but have seem to have misplaced the cars.

20's
Plants. Any plant that was interesring in shape, habit or flower, or any plant used in bonsai. Many from China and Nth America.

Now
As i look over my shoulder I see BOOKS!!!
I think I might have a problem!
I didn't intend on starting a collection but here I am, drowning in books.
Lots on horticulture and Astronomy and popular science.

leon · #31 03-12-2009, 06:17 PM

I mainly collected Rocks and stones from different places and still pick up the odd one now and then.

Also stamps, and coins, were a pretty big drawcard.

Leon

BerrieK · #32 03-12-2009, 07:06 PM

As a child I collected coins and interesting pieces of coloured broken glass (!!). I still have the coins, and my own kids like to paw through them occasionally.

I also collected notes from my teacher to the deputy principal for being too disruptive in class - I got bored quited easily and stirred everyone up - so I guess that the depury principal collected those, not me!

For about 10 years (about 1987 - 1997) I collected the tickets to all the movies I went to see. I have a great number, but alas they were lost when my hubby and I moved house form Sydney to Orange (actually secretly I think that he threw them out as he though thtat they were rubbish!).

As an adult I seem to collect wrinkles.

Kerrie

DavidU (Dave) · #33 03-12-2009, 07:24 PM

As a kid I collected stamps, gemstones, electronics,and empty beer bottles (hundreds of them) this was to make money to help my parents out because of a very large family.
Until recently I collected fine watches.

gliderdog (Peter) · #34 03-12-2009, 09:17 PM

When I was a kid I collected stickers - even earnt a badge for it when I was a cub scout!

Now I collect dog bites (postie).

PhilipND · #35 04-12-2009, 08:22 AM

When I was a kid I used to collect butterflies. When dad went overseas I went over for a few holidays there and, of course, caught some more for the collection. Knowing it was illegal to import insects back to Australia and not wanting to throw them out, I left them in what I thought was a rqrely used book at his house packaged in non stick paper and forgot they existed. Years later dad came back home to live and you can imagine the surpsrise to see the book and the preserved specimens still neatly slotted into some pages.

wanglese · #36 04-12-2009, 08:23 AM

As a kid, I collected stamps. Nearly all of them were of Space. Cosmonauts etc. That's how I learned to "read" Russian. I can still read some basic stuff. I still have many of them

As a grown up, like my stamp collection, I mostly collect dust

pwieland · #37 04-12-2009, 08:57 AM

Living at the edge of the Bavarian Alps, I collected summit rocks: Every time I stood on the summit of a mountain I collected a stone to take home. I ended up with quite a collection of mostly limestone rocks.

Jaeger · #38 04-12-2009, 08:59 AM

As a kid I used to collect stamps, gemstones/crystals/interesting rocks, carnivorous plants, and orchids.

These days, I "collect" birds (sightings - birdwatcher.)

poppasmurf (Shane) · #39 04-12-2009, 09:02 AM

I don't recall collecting much as a young boy, but when I was in my 20's I got into baseball in ahuge way and collected baseball caps and any other baseball memorabelia I could get my hands on. Still have all the caps and jackets in the wardrobe, much to the better halfs disgust. She thinks I should grow up but I think NOT.
Regards poppasmurf AKA Shane

dugnsuz (Doug) · #40 04-12-2009, 09:03 AM

Ironically, given the prize in this comp, I used to collect coins!
Mainly British coins from around late 1700's onwards.
Groats, farthings, thrupenny bits - you name 'em I had 'em!!!

Pride and joy was a King George III Cartwheel Penny from around 1797 or so.

Good Luck to all loyal members!!
Doug