What Collection Do You Still Have?

[icyfroth]

The phone in topic on the breakfast show this morning was collections you had as a kid or teenager that you still have. One caller still had his complete Smurf collection in a cupboard that he didn't want his kids to know about. A Mum called in to say her 39yo son still has his Kinder surprise collection from when he was a teenager or younger. I still have my sons matchbox car collection.

[annies_fancy_dress]

I have my rubiks cube collection, most still work.

From the 80's

[icyfroth]

Unfortunately my grandsons pretty much trashed their Uncle's matchbox cars 😞

[sineaterdoodah]

books. i DON'T give up my books. thankfully,curtis the same way! 🙂

[chuk_77]

yep, I have my smurfs and still building on the collectoin too. But only mint originals

[green.fields]

I lived in the Netherlands for a short while when I was 11, I collected lapel type pins, I still have them. They used to give them away with your groceries, they were all to do with grocery brands. I still have games I had as a child.

My hubby has  WAFL footy card collections and some weetbix card collections.

My son's Lego collection has now been passed on to my grandson, 2 items out of that collection would be worth $1000-00 and $480-00 respectively if we still had the original boxes, alas we don't but they are still collectors items. My son also followed baseball and he has still got all his baseball cards. Don't think he'll be getting rid of them any time soon.

[daydream**believer]

When i was about 8, a group of us started collecting and swapping writing paper. Fancy ones with images on them. Ive still got my folder with all mine in.

Just cant throw them out as they were so precious to me

[icyfroth]

I've started to cull my books, Sin, although I still have my collection of Dickens. I used to have a lot of sci-fi and fantasy I've long grown out of

[lyndal1838]

I still have the books my grandmother won as school prizes, some dating to 1894, as well as books belonging to my mother from the 1920s and my own books from the 1940-60s.  All hardbacks and in good condition.  I can not say the same about the condition of the later books...mostly paperbacks.

 Our collection of Little Golden Books starts with mine from 1945 onwards and includes my childrens from the 70s and 80s and my grandchildren's from 2000 onwards.  There have not been many published titles that we do not have.

My girls collected matchbox cars and most of them are still at my place...they date from the early 1970s and are in good condition although none have the original boxes.

[kopenhagen5]

Brings up nice memories. I wish I had kept some things that I gave away.

One was a fully working play theatre from early 1900's with wind up curtains, lights, trap door, props, scenes, actors and scriptbooks. 

I starting banknote collecting when I was about 10.  Still have the collection, now at around 3,500 different notes.