Do you or did you collect anything other than coins?

[CarlWohlforth]

I was reminiscing with a friend and it turns out we both collected bottle caps. Back in the day soda bottles were small and had metal caps. You needed a bottle opener. 

I also assembled a huge collection of low grade comics from the Silver era. I had lots of #1s but all were dog eared and so on. I had to dump them when we moved from NYC to Lexington because they would not fit in my Mom's VW. 

[Bubblehead]

 

All thru grade school, oh say 1950 thru 1955, until I began High School, I
collected BB cards, and....and, Marbles!  I had at least 3 of the HUGE oatmeal
(round) containers full of 1) steelies, 2) boulders, 3) cats eyes, and 4) my
favorite "shooters!"  .. Remember "Bombs over Tokyo?"  We did not go to
school w/o our bag of marbles, and BB cards, with a rubber band around them.
No such thing as certifying their condition back then.  They were all grubby, dog
eared, bent, dirty, well.... 'ya know..

My Mom threw all of my comics, BB cards, and marbles out, when I enlisted in the Navy!

Had they been kept thru the years, well...  Maybe I would be writing this from my
South Pacific island, instead of a bankrupt Kalifornia....

[mrpaseo]

Where to begin....  When I was a child my first collection was.... Coins!  I received a small collection of cleaned cents from my dad (Still have them 30 years later).  I moved on to Comic Books, Baseball cards, Magic Cards, Beanie babies (I have a daughter, she loved them so my focus moved onto them... that's my story and I'm sticking to it) and finally back to coins.  I have been on hold since the war began due to three rapid deployments and two change of duty stations but I am eager to get back into the mix.

I still have a lot of the stuff I collected over the years... not sure what they are worth... maybe I'll figure that out in retirement.

Ray

[lordmarcovan]

I've been known to casually collect old postcards on occasion.  I do find myself interested in Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities (i.e. pottery and relics and such), but haven't really "collected" any of that, per se.  (Mostly because my pockets are far too shallow to collect the sort of stuff I like.)

I have collections of fossils and old bottles and things like that, but in those things I only collect the items I personally dug up or found somehow- I don't add to those collections by purchasing.  Really, when you get right down to it, coins are the only collectible I regularly purchase. 

[acodym]

When I was a little kid I collected pins (the ones that cliped to your shirt). I don't anymore though. Coins are so much better then pins.

[walmann]

In high school collected comics and world war I and world war II artifacts.

Sold the comics during the college years and the world war items when I got married.

Still have a collection of 19th Century photographs. Haven't added to the collection in years but no desire to part with it yet.

[TheHun]

All thru grade school, oh say 1950 thru 1955, until I began High School, I
collected BB cards, and....and, Marbles!  I had at least 3 of the HUGE oatmeal
(round) containers full of 1) steelies, 2) boulders, 3) cats eyes, and 4) my
favorite "shooters!"  .. Remember "Bombs over Tokyo?"  We did not go to
school w/o our bag of marbles, and BB cards, with a rubber band around them.
No such thing as certifying their condition back then.  They were all grubby, dog
eared, bent, dirty, well.... 'ya know..

My Mom threw all of my comics, BB cards, and marbles out, when I enlisted in the Navy!

Had they been kept thru the years, well...  Maybe I would be writing this from my
South Pacific island, instead of a bankrupt Kalifornia....

That is interesting - you are the third person in a few weeks that collected / collects marbles -

they have value of sorts, are great to look at and fun to play with.

At one time they were used as currrency.

[TheHun]

I think "once a collector-always a collector" applies.

We just cut back now and then.

I used to collect all sports cards - when it got crazy in the 1990s I cut back to just 2 sports.

[Bretts911]

I am a Collector of small size currency

[Bubblehead]

I am a Collector of small size currency

 

And this again reminds me of the MPC series I recently found!  .."Small size...."

..LOL..

[cars]

I collect Currency, Diecast cars although not much, Firearms, Ammo, rare bullion ingots. O and Alum cans

[RedSoxinNYC]

I collect too much stuff:

fine wine

sports stuff

newspapers and magazines

women 

currency

art