What was the most valuable currency in your playground

Ava_e

Swapies !

For Boys : football stickers THAT NO ONE ELSE HAD. Star Wars and Transformer toys

For girls : it was scented Fancy Paper, Barbie clothes. Gloworms and Snap Braclets until they were banned ( someone thought of the children !!!!!).


Add to the list if you're skipping/trippin down memory lane.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Starcom for the guys...........or the seat back from your mountain bike!

Girls......hula hoops or something like that!

1ZRed

Back in the day it was all Pokémon. Fuck knows if anyone actually knew how to play the card game but they looked cool

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

In beofre someone says the went to a Christian Bros school and says that it was them....!

In my case it was anything round and inflatable that could be kicked.

9959

Snout.

SEPT 23 1989

Heroin

Eggonyerface

The shiny man utd crest. Premier league 95(ish)

Cool_CM

Premier League stickers and pogs.
Playing pogs "for keeps" was huge.

expelliarmus

Pogs and gladiators cards/stickers.

You were cool if you had a Jet shiney

Cool_CM

Eggonyerface wrote: »

The shiny man utd crest. Premier league 95(ish)

I seem to remember that the premier league crest or "number 1" was the big one!

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Aw yeah.........callcards! I didnt buy into it but holy fup, some of the lads turned into absolute dickbags collecting them.

Idiots.

keith16

Actual currency. Pound coins, 20p's and the like."Millennium" 50p's were like hens teeth

Duckworth_Luas

It was all trundling hoops and wooden spinning tops when I was a young lollygagger!

Hippies!

Be jaysus ta fook if I remember that. Who remembers nonsense like this about their school days

Teyla Emmagan

keith16 wrote: »

Actual currency. Pound coins, 20p's and the like."Millennium" 50p's were like hens teeth

I have 37 of them in a jar in my Mam's. They're going to be worth A FORTUNE some day - I'm sure of it!!!

Just priced one on ebay.ie - €4.90 (and €5 postage?!?!). I'm well on my way to making my fortune..

orchidsrpretty

Pogs. And those plastic dummie that you would put on necklaces.

Where To

A-Team Lunchbox.

Rhinocharge

Top Trumps

Gran Hermano

Punts.

Smidge

Fancy paper and "Johnny Onion Rings"

I used to love swapping fancy paper, there was a real "art" to it and boy oh boy could it become cut throat!(pardon the pun)

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Remember tamagotchi's (sp)

The key ring pet things where if you didnt feed it at the right time, it crapped itself and died. That meant you weren't ready for kids at 14 years of age.

Bring 'em back I say!

Best username ever

We used to collect these

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=290793011301

Shane-KornSpace

The Mew Pokemon card.

I had 3 of these rare bastards.

Got alot for the 2 I swapped.

Primary school: premier league stickers and Pokemon cards.

Secondary school: cigarettes

kippy

Primary School: Pencil Cases (80's) and CallCards
Secondary School: Cash money/Fake ID's

Katgurl

A copy of Judy Blume's Forever or Flowers in the Attic (I forget the author)

danoriordan1402

marbles...or seasoners( those hard as fcuck chestnuts on a string that were like a lump of lead..)

Jarrod

Premier League pencil tops anyone?

seven_eleven

Pogs
Shiny pokemon stickers
Finger skateboards
Actionmen clothes

Conchir

Marbles.

Teyla Emmagan

Katgurl wrote: »

A copy of Judy Blume's Forever or Flowers in the Attic (I forget the author)

Virginia Andrews. We all thought that stuff was FILTHY.

mattjack

Aerials off teachers cars, eventually Gardai were called and an aerial off their car was collected.

PinkFly

those brightly coloured bracelets

anything that came free in the cereal boxes

pencil toppers

good lunch items ( chocolate spread sandwich or digestive biccie)

token101

Videos of wrestling pay per views recorded on Sky Sports. A buddy of mine used to tape the repeats as well and sell them for 10 pound. He went on to record some dodgy German satellite softcore porn in 6th class, brought it in to show the lads when we had a video one Friday afternoon and ended up getting caught by a nun who was 'visibly shaken' according to the teacher (his parents were called and told us the full story at his 21st). Now they'd just call it sex education.

SimonLynch

Back in the early seventies there was an ice cream in the school shop, might have been Dale Farm. Vanilla Ice Cream on a plastic stick, on top of the stick was a moulded chess piece, you didn't know what piece you were getting until you got through the ice cream. Pawns were as common as Twink but if you got a Queen or a King your day was made. God I'm old :)

whiskeyman

Bullet casings (got at army shop / firing ranges?)
Car logos from cars ( only scumbag kids mostly)
Porno mags (before the internetz!!)
Caps / bangers
A tennis ball

Inventive User Name

Pokemon cards, closely followed by World Cup 2002 stickers!

Mint Sauce

Panini Football Stickers, and Pogs.

seven_eleven

oh! I forgot to mention, metal caps from the air tubes of car tyres :pac:
They seemed hugely popular at one stage, and we'd rob every single one we'd find.

Shane-KornSpace

The caps off of the air input on.tyres.

Dust caps, I think theyre called??

Anyway, the ones off BMWs, Mercs., etc. were the most valuable.

If you could get one off of a squad car or the special branch cars, you were the shiit.

When we werent trading them, we would screw them on to our bikes' rims.

Blue ones were blingin!

All the bitches loved it :pac:

Linguo

Fancy Paper!

Take That trading cards

Stickers

Pogs (especially the metal ones)

Marbles

Loved it, thought having pages of fancy different paper was the business at the time!!

VinLieger

Marbles when from about 1st - 3rd class
Then pogs were introduced for about 2 years and then it was back to marbles after we realised they were just ****ty pieces of cardboard.
Interspersed with these fads was the yearly football sticker book things

Eden3

Adam Ant albums (vinyl)! Still have them .......:rolleyes:

Lollipops23

Elastics were pretty hot property in my playground. (the kind you did a form of skipping with)

flanno_7hi

Cool_CM wrote: »

I seem to remember that the premier league crest or "number 1" was the big one!

Premierleague cards were the thing. Never even saw one of these lasercuts from the end of the album.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Robbie-Fowler-LIVERPOOL-Merlin-1995-Laser-Cut-Insert-Card-5-5-/160923577020?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D4113064881810952324%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D400332782169%26

Ya used to get a packet free in shell when you spent a tenner and I remember my da came in one day after doing a night shift in the cab and handed me 17 packs. Ended up finishing the album except for those feckin specials at the end.

Remember swapping about 20 cards to get Cantona.

Good times.

candy-gal1

Started the whole collecting/swapsies/game thing in the schoolyard with the puppies/kittens in my pocket and marbles then stickers, when I was about 8 i think, then the whole Pogs and Slammers thing which i would love to have now just out of memories tbh i had a huge box of them but no idea where there are now after moving houses a lot , then tamagotchis, then Goosebumps books and Point Horror, then lastly just as I was in 1st year in secondary school came the Pokemon!

I sort of collected them, but being 13 I was more into the plush toys of them and the TV show

Just saw someone said about the judy blume books and Forever , I read the Judy Blume stuff since I was about 11 i think, but never actually discovered and read Forever till I was 16, me and my friend from school then still remember that day we bought that, one of those curious in your teens type of books methinks

Capt'n Midnight

Conchir wrote: »

Marbles.

Steelies

Especially ball bearings from locomotives

xshayx

Star Wars cards, who ever threw the card closest to the window won the other card, if you got your card on the lower/upper ledge you won some money as well as the card.

A-Team cards only for swapping as too small/light to throw

kowloon

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Steelies

That moment when you remember something and you have a big grin .

VinLieger

kowloon wrote: »

That moment when you remember something and you have a big grin .

Wow....

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

How has nobody mentioned WWF Wrestling stickers?! Or was it just my school? Would have been around 1993 or 94 I think. They came wrapped around a 2p bubblegum which always went in the bin, there were 50 to collect and everyone carried their bundle around with elastic bands around them.

Have, have, need, have, need, need, have

Good times!