What was the most valuable currency in your playground

Ava_e · 12-12-2012 09:37PM #1

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 · 12-12-2012 09:39PM

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

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

1ZRed · 12-12-2012 09:40PM

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 · 12-12-2012 09:41PM

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.

12-12-2012 09:41PM

Snout.

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-12-2012 09:42PM

Heroin

Eggonyerface · 12-12-2012 09:44PM

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

Cool_CM · 12-12-2012 09:44PM

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

expelliarmus · 12-12-2012 09:44PM

Pogs and gladiators cards/stickers.

You were cool if you had a Jet shiney

Cool_CM · 12-12-2012 09:47PM

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 · 12-12-2012 09:47PM

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

Idiots.

keith16 · 12-12-2012 09:48PM

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

Duckworth_Luas · 12-12-2012 09:49PM

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

Hippies! · 12-12-2012 09:50PM

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

Teyla Emmagan · 12-12-2012 09:50PM

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 · 12-12-2012 09:50PM

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

Where To · 12-12-2012 09:51PM

A-Team Lunchbox.

Rhinocharge · 12-12-2012 09:53PM

Top Trumps

Gran Hermano · 12-12-2012 09:54PM

Punts.

Smidge · 12-12-2012 09:55PM

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 · 12-12-2012 09:55PM

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!