What things did you collect as a child?
by 
Jay Was Here - AYPWIP
ANSWERS: 100
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Baseball cards and comic books!
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Too many!!! Stamps, coins, tiles (yes tiles), bottlecaps, pens, crayons, to name a few hehehehe
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Those ugly Troll dolls and little character figurines like the Smurfs and Disney ones.
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Mermaids. Figurines, plates, necklaces, anything with either Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid, or anything with a mermaid on it. I have a beautiful mermaid teapot, and an equally beautiful mermaid candle holder. I still collect.
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I tryed collecting a few things a few times. coins; Indian head penny's buffalo nickels liberty dollars wheat back penny s also. rocks igmis sandstone granite quartz pummis coal slate (I don t rember them well (he he eh) Match box cars / trucks I had over 150 different ones
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Memories!
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my little pony! oh my god i loved my little pony. i had the books, the videos. not to mention the plastic ponies i used to talk to like PEOPLE. i'll whisper the second part of my answer because it makes me sound insane but, erm. sticks. YES, i know. i used to line them up in the garden. before you ask they were, of course, all named 'sticky'.
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Scapes and bruises.
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spankings, room restrictions to mention a few...lol I collected matchbox cars until a girl laughed at me over it and I gave...yes gave them away...this was in the mid 70's....grrrr....they would most likely be very valuable now...but no, I gave them away and never got the girl...As Sgt. Stryker, John Wayne said "Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid"...boy did he nail that one...lol + -Buddy
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Hot Wheels, arrowheads, petrified wood, different cool looking rocks rocks.
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Stamps boring i know
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I have collected betty boop since I was 4..if they make it I have it
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books.
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*Polly Pockets *Littlest Pet Shop *when I was 8 I was really into the Spice Girls *Magnets *Books
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Dirt, bruises, cuts and scrapes, I was always a bit of an adventurer!
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stamps and spoons from every state and country I have visited. I still have my stamp collection but am not active in collecting anymore. But I still pick up a spoon form all the places I have traveled.
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Catipillars and scabs.
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the little tear-off prices in department stores in the mall!!!!
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Stray animals. ; - D
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dolls and money
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Baseball cards, still have most of them.
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I collected cats, any kinds of cats, glass, pictures of them , books about them, etc. lol.
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GI Joe soldiers and Barbie doll heads. ^_^; I didn't like the Barbies and I was very much a tomboy.
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Mr Men & Little Miss books also the jelly babies toys!
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baseball cards and injuries.
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Beanie babies!!!
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The pens that when you turn them from one side to the other then the picture changes.
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I collected wrappers from Popsicle®. They had coupons on them which could be turned for prizes. I lived near a park, and I could collect several hundred a day on weekends. I saved them up, and mailed them in. I was always so excited to get a package in the mail with a whistle, or a tiny magnifier, once even a two inch long knife.
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Baseball cards. I had about a hundred of the 1958 series until they were stolen.
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Magic the Gathering: Cards... stopped because they started making a bunch of new rules and came out with a new set every 3 months...
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Lady Bugs, Hello Kitty (Sanrio Products)
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Garbage Pail Kid stickers...... they were fab!!
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pogz and stamps lol pogz were awesome
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comic books, baseball cards, action figures (TMNT, GI Joe, Voltron, Thundercats, He-Man)
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coins, stamps, comics
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We were too poor to have more than one of anything so collecting was tough. But I did collect some really handy life skilz!
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Arthropods and dinosaurs
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Coins. Still do.
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Rubbers
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hahaha oddly bouncey balls and those cute little earasers such as butterflys or hellokitty, dinosaurs any kind!!!
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Rocks, Cigarette butts, GI Joes, Dinosaurs, Sea Shells, a whole freaking list of other toys.
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baseball cards and Nancy Drew books
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matchbox cars and G.I. Joe
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Matchbox cars and hockey cards and comic books and coins.
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For some reason, I collected everything. Including random crap that I would find outside. Rocks, peices of metal, whatever.
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Ear wax... I made a small ball out of thread, and just kept smearing it, and keeping it chilled, but it mysteriously diappeared :)
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Erasers, usually Lisa Frank, and stationary.
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For some reason furry stickers... guess it was a tactile thing.
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I collected weird rocks, toy planes and trains, and money.
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Napkins from weddings, birthdays, etc.
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Scratch 'n Sniff Stickers - I think I might still have them at my moms! I gotta check now.
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butterflies, tadpoles. bee's
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"F"s in school and rocks every where else.
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Barbies, teddy bears, rings and other jewelry, sheet music
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When i was young i used to work in a barbers, and i used to collect hair.
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KISS memorbilia. Oh, what do you know, I'm still collecting it! I used to collect Mork stuff, too.
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Memories.
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memories.
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DIRT!! he he and any ANIMAL I could bring home and beg to keep!!! Posters of my fav music groups posted all over my walls!!! New Kid's On the Block, Markie Mark, Boyz 2 Men and Kriss Kross!!! ha ha
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I collected pebbles. I'd pick them up from the school yard if they were pretty and kept them in a pencil box.
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Wacky Packages! Dr Popper---"pop the top and glop glop glop"
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WWF wrestling cards, then i'd swap the doublers in school :D i think i collected pogs for a while too.
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New Kids on the Block(everything)...ahh I know...then rocks... as I grew up...
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Coins, stamps, pocket knives, anything "valuable and attractive" became part of my pirate treasure.
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Sugar packs. In the 60's and 70's they used to have pretty pictures on them, mountains, flowers, cars and trucks etc.
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Bumps and bruises... I was always getting hurt as a child.
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Antique Clocks.... Ok, so I was weird!!
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Emotional baggage!
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Since I came from a poor family, I collected only things which were free like red beads, match boxes, cigarette boxes, used stamps, one cent coins and used bus tickets.
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baby dolls and bruises
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Rocks and fossils, micromachines, matchbox and hotwheels cars, pokemon cards, insects, cicada shells, seashells.
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Stamps, pencils and cute little erasers :-)
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muzik and photoz
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i am a girl and i collected bugs(i really liked grasshoppers) and rocks..i was an odd child
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CD's and Janet Jackson memorabilia.
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tears.
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[Damn, Jay, how did this ancient question of yours get drug out of the archives, anyway?!? And since you're still around...and doing AB well...I'll answer.] Anyway, when I was a kid I collected political memorabilia (buttons, bumper stickers, jewelry, flyers, etc., and even an engraved invitation to the Inagural Ball, which my Mom and Dad received...and attended), starting with Eisenhower. I was 13 when he was running in back 1951. I still have that stuff! +5
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Spy toys, video games (I started playing video games at a very young age, due to lack of decent kids my age on my street.), and anything to do with cats.
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Baseball cards, It's just to bad that baseball cards are going down In value these days!
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i used to collect woodlice and colour their shells in felt tips lol!!! oh and i fept a fish tank full of mud and worms!1 you could see them under the mud making tunnels
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Pictures of my scars and injuries. I had scrapebooks called "Mrs. mezzo narrowly escapes death" parts I-IV. (and yes, I meant to call it 'scrapebook').
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Horses, mainly horse statues. And I had an antique thimble collection, too.
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Mr. Men books.
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i had an extensive rock collection.
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Teddy bears. Had all kinds of outfits for them, too.
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Trinket's out of the bubble gum machine.
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cars, little war men,G.I.O pokemon cards and toys;yu-gi-oh cards
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The same thing I collect now, coffee mugs.
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Comic books, rocks
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shells, rocks, and matchbook covers.
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Barbies, paper dolls and things with butterflies on them.
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anything electrical
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pogs and sunburns lol
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Yu gi oh cards
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Hot Wheels, Hats
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Rocks and bruises haha
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Dolls
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clothes tags.
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Heartaches, fears, insecurities, threats, violent acts, failures and losses. However, I did collect kisses and hugs and unconditional love from my mother, and I have gladly passed that on to my own children.
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Wooden sticks from ice cream bars and smooth rocks
Cruiser - IYNGUYCPL 
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