Did you collect anything as a child or even now? I collected baseball cards as a kid. How about you?

[debm55]

[Raastan]

1. Hundreds of different beer cans!

[debm55]

9. Thank you very much, Raastan. That is very unique.

[DURHAM D]

2. Betsy McCall paper dolls.

[debm55]

11. Thank you very much for sharing with us. DURHAM D

[biophile]

3. Breyer horses

My parents wouldn’t buy the real thing 😏😂

[debm55]

12. Thank you biophite. Thos Breyer horses were beautiful

[Mad_Dem_X]

4. I had scrapbooks of celebrity pictures

Now I just collect Barbie dolls.

[debm55]

13. Wonderful, Mad_Dem_X. Do you debox your Barbies?

[Mad_Dem_X]

20. Usually, yes.

I do have some that are still in their boxes. The problem is, I'm running out of room for them!

[Polybius]

5. Video games and comic books as a kid

Even now still, in addition to many other things, such as DVD/Blu-ray movies.

[debm55]

22. Thank you very much, Polybius. My favorite was collecting the Archies comic books.

[Chasstev365]

6. Beer Cans and I have them displayed in my garage today

[debm55]

23. Great and very funny. Chasstev365. That is funny. Love it.

[surrealAmerican]

7. wacky packs

They were a seventies thing.

[debm55]

24. Thank you very much, surrealAmerican. That's great.

[ScoutHikerDad]

8. Old Straight Razors

I have been restoring and rescaling old straights for years. I also hone, strop and shave with them. I find it relaxing in kind of a zen way to have a Sunday shave with one of my homemade shaving brushes and a really luxurious fine shave soap.

In fact, the desire to start turning shaving brushes to match my fancy wood-handled straights during the pandemic led me all the way down the wood-turning rabbit hole, which cleared a path for me to retire from teaching to pursue it as a full-time business. Now I hoard wood, lol-so much wood! Here's a pic of a set in Walnut I made for a colleague for her husband as a wedding present:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MbqhZDvTY6ZBKRkEA

[debm55]

25. Oh those are beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing with us. ScoutHikerDad. You are very creative.

[ScoutHikerDad]

27. Thank you, Deb!

[electric_blue68]

44. Great story, and lovely pieces!

I enjoy watching wood turning videos.

[House of Roberts]

10. I collected coins, baseball cards and glass insulators.

I still have some of the insulators but I no longer collect them. They became too expensive to chase through flea markets and antique stores, and there's no longer any still out on poles for a long time now.

[debm55]

28. Another baseball card collector. Since I live in Pittsburgh, I have a lot of the Pirates, including Roberto Clemente.

What was your home team.?

[House of Roberts]

33. Home team would have been Atlanta since it's regionally the closest.

Plus, the games were available on WTBS from Atlanta (before it became simply TBS). Before that, we usually pulled for American League teams in the World Series especially Detroit since my dad's brother was in Battle Creek. About the only time back then that we didn't was if the Yankees were in the Series. We weren't too happy with them.

[wnylib]

14. A few things, like

Molusc shells from the Lake Erie shore. They look similar to clam shells.

Stray cats from anywhere and everywhere.

Pop beads from gum ball machines. Called pop beads because you could connect them together by "popping" a prong on one of them into a prong receiver of another one. They came in different colors so you could make up your own design for bracelets and necklaces.

Fossil rocks from the creek bed at my grandparents' farm. It was my older brothers who first showed them to me and explained what they were. I got fascinated with them.

Books. Our 5th grade teacher subscribed to a paperback book club for students. About 3 or 4 times a year, we got flyers that listed titles and gave short descriptions. I'd order 4 or 5 books each time to pay for out of my allowance (and borrow some money if necessary). Book prices ranged from 35 cents to a dollar. Average price for most books was 75 cents. Also requested books for birthday and Christmas.

ETA: I still collect books. Ex husband worked for a book store chain (now out of business) so we often got book discounts. Local library has book sales, too. And I order new ones online. The living room in my apt looks like a library. I've been sorting through them to donate to the library sales.

After a college geology course, I started collecting rocks.

[debm55]

30. Thank you for your wonderful and interesting post.wnylib. I live in Pittsburgh , Been to Lake Erie many times. I did the

pop beads too. Your love of books is great. Thank you for sharing, wnylib.

[wnylib]

36. Erie is my home town so I so spent a lot of time

at Presque Isle beaches and at the bay side of the peninsula.

A lot of Pittsburgh people used to come to Erie for the beaches. Also, people from places between Erie and Pittsburgh -- Johnstown and Somerset, Sharpsville, etc.

[rsdsharp]

15. I still have my 1960s baseball cards.

Now I collect vintage (replica) baseball caps. I think they look cool, (even though they’re wool) and they protect my bald head from sunburn.

[debm55]

31. HAHAHAHHAHHAh. I still have my vintage cards, and I remember the thin Topps bubble gum that came with them. I had a

shoebox full of cards.Thank you very much, rsdsharp

[some_of_us_are_sane]

16. May sound strange, but

1962 Topps "Civil War News" bubble gum card series. I believe my interest began there and culminated in MANY MANY trips to Gettyburg.

[debm55]

38. Thank you very much for sharing with us, some_of_us_are_sane. That's very interesting.

[dickthegrouch]

17. I've often wished I had

Without realizing, until recently, that I had in fact collected something.
Scores for all the music I've sung in concert.
I have visited many countries in the world and often wished I had purchased and kept something artisanal, or even just the baggage tags.
And I have memories of the fantastic cuisines in each of those countries. Unfortunately not tangible, but not erasable either.

[debm55]

39. Thank you very much for sharing with us.dicthegrouch for sharing your journeys with us.

[Grim Chieftain]

18. "Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy" Golden Books

Wow. That is a long trip down memory lane.

[debm55]

40. HAHHAHHAHAH. Thank you Grim Chieftain. Love it. I used to have the Golden Books with the elf in the top

[True Dough]

19. At various times,

I collected chicken pox and swollen tonsils from strep throat and tonsilitis!

I couldn't give those away if I tried!

[debm55]

41. I am so sorry, True Dough.

[True Dough]

42. No need to be sorry, deb

I had a good childhood. Just got sick my fair share (and maybe a little more).

But I've been lucky as an adult to be super healthy! So far, so good.

[DFW]

21. Debm55 you have a kinship with a well-known Democratic Governor

Governor Janet Mills of Maine has a substantial collection of baseball cards. I don’t know if she was the enthusiast, though. She may just have inherited them. She told me several years ago that she had the collection, though.

[Emile]

26. I collected coins, and still do.

[Polly Hennessey]

29. Books 📕 and I still do.

[gopiscrap]

32. stamps, coins and baseball cards

but mainly baseball cards I was given some very old baseball cards in addition to the many I collected. In 1985 I sold one baseball card for 1900 dollars. At one point my collection was worth 43K In college I generally sold cards for beer money and travel money

[CanonRay]

34. I collected coins for a long time

but kind of lost interest when they started encapsulating them for grading.

[joho260]

35. '55 Dodgers

I had the entire 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers team in Topps cards; very good condition but not mint. When I went off to college and then the Army, my parents GAVE THEM AWAY! They went to a cousin who then sold them to a friend of his for $200.

[subterranean]

37. Baseball cards and Matchbox cars

Sadly, both collections are long gone.

Now I'm focusing more on getting rid of things rather than collecting them.

[Rizen]

43. I still have pokemon cards...

and little toy monsters that might be worth something now.

[electric_blue68]

45. As a 5th & 6th grader- baseball cards....

•Tween/teen- shells.
•Tween through (off & on) my 30's - rocks & minerals. My mom and were rock hounds. Went to occasional shows.
A few times some rock hunting spots on vacation - like Herkimer "diamonds" Double pointed quartz!
•Later teens - vinyl records (love certain Rock music), then cassettes, then CD's as tech changed. And sometimes Movie soundtracks.
•Later teens onward - Science Fiction books.

Almost all gone. Moves, major downsizing. At least I had fun!