I collect pretty much anything and have my entire life. Recently I’ve started getting into collecting knives, preferably fold action pocket knives.
As far as childhood collectibles, I used to have a ton of sports cards and they’ve all dwindled down to a small briefcase that used to contain a poker set. Some of the favorites I have that are worth less now than they were to manufacture…Nothing crazy just a few rookie cards of 80’s-90’s stars, Ken Griffey Jr, Eddie George, etc
The craziest collection I’ve ever seen was when I worked for a pest control company. This dude was loaded to the point where he had an indoor gym and a basketball court, a movie theater, and a game room full of arcade machines. In the basement, there were 3 rooms full of mint to near mint golden era baseball cards from anyone you could imagine. Some of the ones I remember clearly were a Bowman Willie Mays rookie,
Topps Mickey Mantle, and like 5 or 6 Jackie Robinson cards. Dude had every single card enclosed in this thick ass glass, a lot of them were PSA graded, he took it very seriously.
When I was nearing the end of high school I made it my mission to reacquire all my PlayStation 2 collection that I had sold to GameStop years ago. Now like 15 years later I’ve got that and then some.
I’m big on collecting physical media as well. Have a decent amount of records, probably close to 1000, not a large number at all compared to other collectors I’ve met but the average person thinks 1000 records is a lot (and nowadays seem to think it’s worth a lot of money; little do they know a lot of my records are bargain bin jazz & good stuff I bought back in 2011-12 when no one cared about vinyl). I’d say most of my records are worth nothing, but they’re cool to look at and listen to
Another piece of music media I’ve started to collect that’s worth even less than records nowadays is cassettes. I used to have a decent tape collection when I had an older truck with a tape deck, but I gave them away to a friend when I got the car I have now. Regret that one for sure because I had some good tapes there.
Have way too many VHS and DVDs, I had so many VHS at one point that I gave damn near 4 boxes of tapes away to one of my collector friends. Still have around 200 tapes after the fact. DVDs altogether probably close to 750-800. I have to get a storage unit here soon and turn the 2nd bedroom into a baby room just because I have so much useless shit that I don’t need but can’t get rid of
Back to childhood collections though, one thing I was obsessed with collecting as a kid was wrestling action figures. I had so many back then that I had my own universe mode, had rosters, ppvs, the whole 9. I even had the announcer table with Jim Ross & used to announce in his voice, and had the little titantron entrance ramp that played the wrestler’s music when the strip on their foot hit the magnet. I sold all of them at a yard sale when I was 12 or 13 (I don’t really regret, they lose all value once they’re used)
I’ve bought a few WWE figures here and there to display but they’re in a box in storage nowadays.
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