What did you collect as a child?

[Chicken Drummer]

i collected Football Stickers and pokemon cards

[Ashleyxoxo]

Spice girl stickers.
Cards. MtG, Yu-gi-oh! and Pokémon cards.

[Graeham]

All sorts of interesting leaves, rocks, seeds, insects and spiders. The latter much to my family's frustration.

[Othraerir]

i collected so much dumb shit, looking back it was a massive waste of money, thinking i'd get the whole set etc.

game cards, sports cards, stickers, tazo's from the chips.

[Cæli]

gemstones
legos
pogs
small cars
marbles

[Theodarzna]

I collected Yu-gi-oh! and Pokémon cards, as well as Manga.

Also cool rocks and shells from the beach.

[Witchblade77]

flowers and leaves. my fraternal grandma taught me how to dry them between the sheets of a book - the heavier the better and then arrange them with glue into bouquets on paper, so I've gotten kind of obsessed with it for a while and had them drying in pretty much every book of one of those encyclopedia set that a lot of people used to have but hardly ever read.

also amber chips, we lived a train ride away from a part of Baltic sea shore and amber would wash up after every storm. I tried shells at first, but amber was harder to find and therefore - more fun to collect.

[The Butt Witch]

Football players.

Long, long time ago in the '90s, there used to be this chewing gum called Turbo from a Turkish company.



And every stick had a screenshot of a football player on the field, wrapped in it. The kids were collecting and trading these like mad. Kids had like hundreds of these pictures, some players were repeated a lot. Still remember Ruud Gullit was very common.

Then Turbo dropped out or something, and Ulker took its place with its own set of pictures.

[smityx]

Baseball cards

[Pony Soldier]

Toys. Action figures and plushes. Still do. One collection in particular that I actually still have are the Homies mini figures that I used to get from those coin machines. For some reason I just loved collecting them. Also Pokemon cards. I have like 3 binders full of the old original cards.

Also video games but I wouldn't really say I "collected" them I just normally bought them to play not just to have.

[Shadowferal]

Bruises and scrapes...
...fun times.

[Zan15]

Bruises and scrapes...
...fun times.

Gross you took your scabs and put them in jars? cause that is the only way you could "collect" those...???



Me and my brother brought about 19,000 comic books.
Yes it was that many cause we counted them and sold them for 3,300 in 2007. so a huge loss of investment. I swore I should have wrote it off on my taxes.

[Fincayra]

pez dispensers, gameboy games, really old ornate salt and pepper shakers, dvds, books,

[Shadowferal]

Gross you took your scabs and put them in jars? cause that is the only way you could "collect" those...???

I can only pity you.

[Felya]

Stamps and coins... family got held up at the Polish/Russia border during immigration, because when they asked if we had any foreign currency to declare, 9 year old me tossed a fit that my coin collection wasn’t accounted for...

Edit: As a teenager I got into MTG and comics... then as an adult, I collect video games and consoles.

[Zan15]

I can only pity you.

i know i am so disappointed that i never thought of that when i was a kid.....

[Jutath]

The Marvel trading cards from the mid-90s.

[Krakan]

A variety of cards for different games. Digimon mostly though to this day as an adult I still don't really grasp how it is supposed to be played.

[treclolx]

Beatings and traumas

[Shadowferal]

Wanted to collect these back when they were "keen."