What did you collect as a child?

[Spinneret]

Wrestling magazines figures

 

[tvguy]

Hot Wheels and Match Box cars.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

The little plastic animals made to imitate the glass ones. I had lots of them.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

When I was in high school in the 70’s I fell in love with Ziggy. I collected all kinds of things. Still have them too.

 

[superme80]

Kitty Cucumber Figurines

 

[fly girl]

Garbage Pail Kids. The original set. Complete.

If only I would’ve kept them

 

[firefly_ris]

Rocks, My Little Pony, Lion King trading cards.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Cherished Teddy figurines... my mom still has them all.

 

[DodgerGirl]

When I was a little girl I collected many different toys but I was obsessed with everything Barbie because I got my first Barbie at three and my first Ken doll also at three and I had about 100 Barbies and my mother would buy lots of Barbie fashions because we liked dressing up Barbies a lot together. Then when I was between six and seven I was into Disney Princesses and I collected anything Princesses from dolls to clothing and I even used to wear a cute Disney Princess dress and I had a picture taken with Snow White at Disneyland wearing that dress too and I used to collect baby dolls and Cabbage Patch Kids too. But when my family moved in 2018 I collected WWE figures and I used to adore when Dad when come home from a shopping trip at Kmart with a new WWE figure for my collection because we actually had Kmart right next door to us and that was so thrilling for me because I felt like Charlotte LaBouff from The Princess And The Frog when Big Daddy would bring her new toys. Today it's everything Marvel and Bleacher Creatures plushies and occasionally Star Wars stuff. But I also adore collecting stuffed animals of animals I love and I have stuffed tigers and stuffed leopards and panther plushies and dragon plushies but I do want to have a stuffed hawk and another stuffed goat to add to my collection too

 

[DodgerGirl]

When I was in high school in the 70’s I fell in love with Ziggy. I collected all kinds of things. Still have them too.

Was Ziggy that character that was featured on things like Valentine's Day cards and birthday cards and get well cards? I do remember seeing a lot of Ziggy plushies during Valentine's Day with a big heart with a funny saying on it and my teacher at school used to have Ziggy coffee mugs too. I never knew Ziggy had such a huge fanbase in the 70's. Another character that was popular from the 2000's was an old lady character named Maxine and she used to be featured on coffee mugs and cards and had funny sayings too and she was created by Hallmark and Maxine collectibles were all the rage in 2000

 

[Moliphino]

Postcards. I still have a trunkful of them somewhere from all over the world.

 

[lynxstch]

Barbies

 

[jimmalru80]

Marvel Comic Books
Topps Baseball Cards

 

[Mysterian]

When I was in high school in the 70’s I fell in love with Ziggy.

And the Spiders from Mars?

 

[Mysterian]

Garbage Pail Kids. The original set. Complete.

If only I would’ve kept them

I wish I still had mine, unless my parents packed them away. I didn't start collecting them until series 3.

I do still have some old giant size ones, and my old sticker book containing some GPK and puffy GPK stickers.

I was a GPK maniac. The movie was awful, but the cards were great.

 

[Uncle Coaster]

Wrestling magazines figures

Same. I wish I still had the magazines. I would love to read them again.

 

[kanerf]

Coins. Still do, but not as much as I did when I was younger.

 

[rowan1813]

Beanie Babies! At least until the whole thing fell apart in the early 2000s There are in a bag somewhere in the house but every tag has a tag protector around it!

 

[disneyseniors]

Wrestling magazines figures

Nothing. It was in the 50's when I was a little child and we didn't have the money for a "collection" of toys at that time.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Nothing. It was in the 50's when I was a little child and we didn't have the money for a "collection" of toys at that time.

Nothing for me either but my love of some items I collected later in life came from childhood.