Collecting stuff

cazzy

What did you collect as a kid ?

Fancy papers, stamps, stickers, etc ?

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Panini Football Stickers.


In the playground with a tonne of swaps.

"have, have, have, have, have, have, ooooh need. I'll give you two Liverpool Players for your Shiney Sheffield Wednesday Crest"

Key rings. I still have about a hundred and fifty keyrings

Conkers in Autumn.

My little brother collected stamps. The big nerd.

I used to say to him

"Here, I got a new stamp for you" and proceed to jump on his toes. He'd cry. MUHAHAHAHA!

Oh, and those styrofoam planes.

Gillie

Beer mats.
Football stickers

Ruu_Old

Stamps, football stickers (but I would always miss an edition and then the annual would be no good), Shoot magazine and Beano comics every week.

DublinWriter

DesF wrote: »

Panini Football Stickers.

Ah Fado Fado, wasn't the Liam Brady sticker the rare holy grail?

I also remember the Panini Airline Stickers. Class.

watna

Stamps and the football stickers thingys too but that was only cos my brother did. I also used to like things with sheep on them, don't ask me why now!

Archeron

Matchbox cars and fuzzy felt box sets.

Firetrap

Fancy paper and soap coz I'm a grrrllll. I also flirted briefly with sticker collecting the year the Care Bears albums were all the rage. I did smell nice the year I decided to stop collecting the fancy soap and start using the stuff.

cazzy

I had the care bears sticker album. Cool still in the attic.
and the puffalumps.
Loved stickers.

Fast_Mover

Moi: Stickers and fancy paper..

deman

Gillie wrote: »

Beer mats.
Football stickers

LOL! Exactly the same as me

Had (or still have somewhere) about 500 different beermats. Used to have them bluetacked on my bedroom wall.

kelle

I collected stamps. I used to get batches from a place in Shropshire where I paid an annual fee of £4, I think. Then I'd bring my album into school and have all my classmates gather round to look at them - if I wasn't careful, a few would get nicked! Sad people.

squishywishy

What was fancy paper??

Mrs. MacGyver

squishywishy wrote: »

What was fancy paper??

It was exactly that - fancy paper! It was writing statonery or cards with pictures, it also sometimes smelt of perfume. It often came in cute noepads in different shapes e.g. hearts etc. I don't think primary school children collect them any more though.

I collected,
callcards,
fancypaper,
carebears pannini stickers,
Home and Away cards (came with TOPPS pink chewing gum),
lego,
blue smurfs,
coloured sweet wrappers (usually from Cadbury's roses)
Soaps
Glass animals (i still collect them)

lucyburn

I used to collect 'My Little Ponys' i had over 50 at one stage.
Very sad i know but i was only a child.

robo

Did you ever hear the My Little Pony song that was a bit rude...

My little pony,
Skinny and boney,
Made out of plastic
...

I collected stationary, erasers(not rubbers), pens and pencils.
Do kids still collect stationary???

cazzy

I still have a stationary fettish. I dont collect it per say but Im always buying it and I like Easons, Borders, WH Smith, Reads of Nassau Street etc

And if I get postcards I keep them. (kinda collecting?)

Really I am a magpie. I also like pink and shiny things. (and cow patches and cow patch stuff)

Also my fridge is full of magnets from around the world (is that collecting?)

cazzy

robo wrote: »

Did you ever hear the My Little Pony song that was a bit rude...

My little pony,
Skinny and boney,
Made out of plastic
...

I collected stationary, erasers(not rubbers), pens and pencils.
Do kids still collect stationary???

Thats not a rude poem ?

robo

Cazzy maybe you should set up a new thread in a whole different section on fetishes...bless your cotton sox

Gaz

Various card collections, earliest being the garbage pail kids ... spent a few years collecting them (early 80's) Had them all safely stored in my schoolbag then my mam decided to get me a new school bag and bins the old one without checking the pockets I seriously thought about running away.

Fast forward to early teens and it was the batman cards and the simpsons cards.

robo

cazzy wrote: »

Thats not a rude poem ?

Well I didn't finish it! And I won't either, it was something that I heard many moons ago in the school yard!

lucyburn

Fast_Mover wrote: »

Moi: Stickers and fancy paper..

Almost forgot about the fancy paper all the girls in my class used to collect fancy paper, but you were never ever allowed to write on it, and the paper used to smell lovely.
That smell always reminds me of my primary school days.

robo

lucyburn wrote: »

Almost forgot about the fancy paper all the girls in my class used to collect fancy paper, but you were never ever allowed to write on it, and the paper used to smell lovely.
That smell always reminds me of my primary school days.

Oh God it would have been a sin to write on it.
I did though once or twice, when I had a fight with my mam...I used to write a sorry note and in it tell her that this was one of my fancy paper sheets and I was writing on it to show her how sorry I was for doing something bold!!

Skellington

I used to collect loads of stuff. Money from other countries, stickers, pogs but my favourites were the Dinosaurs and Bugs magazines. Had every single dinosaur collectors card in the display folder ya got, and the full T-rex model that they gave you a new piece of every week. I loved these.

Ruu_Old

A girl in my class had that fancy paper, some Mr.T stuff that smelled like strawberries.

uncle ernie

mini boglins

kelle

Mrs. MacGyver wrote: »

It was exactly that - fancy paper! It was writing statonery or cards with pictures, it also sometimes smelt of perfume. It often came in cute noepads in different shapes e.g. hearts etc. I don't think primary school children collect them any more though.

I remember fancy stationery by Gee Pap, some firm in Finland. I wonder if they're still around?

uncle ernie wrote: »

mini boglins

What are those?

Goldenquick

Notebooks of any description, still love them to this day .

Endasaurus

I had a Batman sticker book from Panini.


Oh and Pokemon cards a little later

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kelle wrote: »

Gee Pap

:eek:

Jaysis.

Cheese Princess

Fancy paper...sometimes if it wasn't scented we would spray perfume on it and it would have a big yellow stain!
Fancy pencils, rubbers, sharpeners, anything that could go in your (fancy) pencil-case, I remember loving metallic pencils.
Barbie stickers for my sticker book and later Home and Away cards.
Also collected dolls from different countries. People would bring them back from holidays, they came in little plastic boxes and they wore the traditional dress of the country. I thought I would get one from every country, think I ended up with about 10!

Firetrap

The nice smellin' fancy paper has triggered an odd childhood memory. When I was in baby infants/senior infants, we used to sniff each others' erasers and see whose smelled the nicest :eek:

earlyevening

I collected foreign coins. My brother went for stamps and for a short while he was collecting phone cards. Remember them??
I remember the girls in primary school with fancy paper and smelly erasers and smurfs.

kelle

DesF wrote: »

:eek:

Jaysis.

http://www.geepap.de/

Dr_Darkness

I remember collecting:

Fancy Papers (I remember trading fancy papers with kids at school)
Keyrings
Fancy soaps
Stickers for those old sticker albums...
and then for a while..I remember collecting those trolls as I got a little older...remember them?

Thats about all I remember collecting...

doctor evil

DesF wrote: »

Oh, and those styrofoam planes.

God I remember those!.

I collected; The Dandy comic, My little pony comic and the Garfield comic. Also did stamps and god knows what other cr*p.

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