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

[DavidU (Dave)]

I wonder why so many collected rocks?

[Zubenel (Wes)]

Yes very good question. I have to also put myself into that category. Fossils were my fasination. My 8year old mother still has them some where. I should dig them out and share them with my kids!! One of note was a perfectly preserved shell half encapsulated in the bed rock.
Cheers Zub.

[leon]

Hey Zub mate you are so lucky to have a Mum that young.

Leon

[BerrieK]

Originally Posted by Zubenel

Fossils were my fasination. My 8year old mother still has them some where. Cheers Zub.

LOL! Started early eh?

[alby]

Hi There,in the late 1950's as a school kid in London I collected a series of 50 cards from Brooke Bond tea packets entitled " Out Into Space ".You could buy an album from your grocer for 6d to put them in, and we would play against each other at school to get the ones you didn't have.Thirty years later I was passing a shop in Exeter in South Devon, and in the window for sale was a picture frame with all the cards carefully mounted and displayed,with a glass frame on the back so you could still read all the info on the stars and planets----I think it cost 35 pounds, and of course I bought it and still have it today.

[trick]

As a kid I collected

Toy Soldiers
Tadpoles (then let them go as frogs)
Stamps
Bricks with different frog shapes (old man was a brickie)
Records
Commando comics


Now

Anything Apollo 11
Anything Astronomical
Old WWII journals
Challenge coins
Military patches


The wife does

Old tin wind up toys
Sweetheart pins

[baby_montana (Michelle)]

I used to collect bugs and lizards and take them to school. I let them go of course. I also had a coin and stamp collection but all that's left of the coins are the foreign ones: I gave in and spent the Australian coins on lollies

Come to think of it: I also used to collect rocks. If anyone's interested in geology there's one particular rock I found on the beach that I'd rather like to know a bit more about

[DiamondDust (Ingrid)]

In the 1950's in England, fruit (apples, oranges, pears etc.,) used to be individually wrapped in tissue paper. Really, it's true! Sometimes the fine tissue was elaborately printed with colourful designs and strange languages (well, I was only a kid), and those where what I used to collect.

[goober (Doug)]

Biggles books - started when I was 9. Finally got them all before they got too expensive.

[rogerg (Roger)]

I collected rocks from early childhood.

Later in childhood I started collecting keyrings and still do

[GREENMAN]

As a kid I collected anything I could get my hands on......particularly anything to do with Natural History but also including every other imaginable object kids collect and much more........I'm still a big kid and still collecting hard out.....telescopes and photography being a couple of the latest avenues of collecting.......lookout world..lookout universe.....now if I just start taking photos looking up........
I would need to write a thesis on it to give you the full picture!

[Astro Girl (Elizabeth)]

I like collecting coins and stamps but I have not put them in an album yet.

[Rattler (John)]

I am SO tempted to say:

"Spores, moulds and fungi".... but I might get "busted" for plagiarism.

So, I collected insults from time to time, splinters, cricket balls - preferably 4 piece specimens, fish tails of the larger fish I caught and currency with errors on them. Rather interestingly I have a bundle of the last run of $1 notes. But then, the run was extensive.

Apart from that, seeds for the garden.

Have gangs of fun! And remember....

[Rattler (John)]

Originally Posted by niko

I tried to throw them all away once but they just came back!!!!

Niko

Reminds me of that old song that anyone singing would probably be shot in this politically correct climate....

"My boomerang won't come back....." [Charlie Drake]

[RB (Andrew)]

When I was young, my collections were far simpler (and cheaper):
Marbles, coins, stamps, matchbox cars, things like that.

Now?
Well, now it's refractors, eyepieces, cameras, camera lenses, things like that.

[UK1 (Rob)]

I collected and still do from time to time Plastic Models kits in mint condition from the 50’s onwards still in plastic bags and box’s never been made, Thunder eggs.. Found some of my own at Tambourine Mt Queensland,
Vinyl records of the Beatles have them all, golf and darts trophies when I was good and young...did the stamp and coin bit for short while…. We also sat by the road collecting car number plates as they drove past writing them all down got thousands ..Marbles way back … and last but not least plenty of smacks across the legs form mum and dad for doing things wrong ...lol there must be more

[UK1 (Rob)]

Who collected the Robinsons Jam Gollywogs cut them out and sent them off to get the metal badges

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks for all the great entries, brings back some memories.

I'll draw the winners in the next few days.