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What did you waste money on as a kid that you'd forgotten about, or find when you clean out your old closets at your parents' house? Obvious: - Pokemon cards. I collected only the Japanese language ones because I liked the art better. - Small Breyer horses. Collect all the horses. I guess animal collecting is a big thing. - Beanie babies! Naturally. They did make some cool animals for this, as they tried to branch out further and further. Sorta Justified: - Cool rocks - Fossils - Weird looking leaves - "Wheat" pennies, the really old 1c coins with wheat on them. I never see these any more but you used to catch them from time to time. - All of the different state quarters. Too many now as they keep doing iterations. - Seashells! - Books for weird series like the Serendipity where all the messages were sorta messed up - Collector cards where it was cool art and there was no "player" angle at all, like murderous aliens. Turbo cool: - Extremely cool rocks - Bones - Weird antiques like snuff boxes or cork boots - Tools you didn't know how to use yet, big hammer you got at a yard sale - Tiny ceramic bees
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Every time I would get a decent booger collection my mom would clean it up and throw it away. Now that I’m an adult I can chill on booger hill. 
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Jan 4, 2020 23:34
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I have a shitton of 90s kinder surprise Disney movie toys somewhere, from back when they weren't made from plastic. Last time I got a good look at them I was maybe 16 but I'm 99% sure my parents or I have them somewhere.
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Jan 4, 2020 23:42
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Goosebumps books, I guess all sorts of plastic or metal army men toys
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Jan 4, 2020 23:48
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I didn't have money to buy my own stuff as a kid so I just collected weird looking garbage and bits of metal like some kind of child-sized magpie.
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Jan 5, 2020 00:12
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Little animal statues of like, bears, wolves, eagles, dogs etc. Redneck equivalent of anime figurines basically. We got rid of most of them and I don't know if I ever actually spent money or if they were just gifts. There was a short while were I was looking for Thurber dogs or at least that was what my mom called them, those were actually kinda neat.
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Jan 5, 2020 00:18
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Pick posted:- Beanie babies!  And no, they're not bad in principle. I still like the cats and some other random ones. But falling into the hype and just buying them to grow ~my collection~ was in retrospect a waste of time and money. e: Oh and the actual cool thing to collect is antique explosives crates. You've gotta have boxes around the house anyway, might as well be a hundred years old and plastered with DANGER warnings.
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Jan 5, 2020 00:18
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Weird hangups and mental conditions
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Jan 5, 2020 00:19
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I inherited a sizeable collection of ZBOTS from my older sisters boyfriend. Those little guys were rad as gently caress
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Jan 5, 2020 00:24
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Jesustheastronaut! posted:I inherited a sizeable collection of ZBOTS from my older sisters boyfriend. Those little guys were rad as gently caress I collected Star wars Micro Machines, and these Zbots. Zbots are the jam.
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Jan 5, 2020 00:28
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Pogs.
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Jan 5, 2020 00:28
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Pick posted:What did you waste money on as a kid that you'd forgotten about, or find when you clean out your old closets at your parents' house? pogs and slammers. i dont regret my rocks though. i do regret my bitch of a great aunt throwing them away when my grandpa died while my grandma was suffering a mental break down due to grandpa dying.
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Jan 5, 2020 00:30
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Cool Stuff: LEGO Lame Stuff: Anything that wasn't LEGO.
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Jan 5, 2020 00:39
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I think my parents still have a big jar of glass marbles around somewhere, along with 150+ issues of Disney comic pocket books, like these:  They still release them, I think they're in the 400s now. I still collect fossils, no "sorta justified" about them 
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Jan 5, 2020 00:42
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neurosis
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Jan 5, 2020 00:47
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Motherfucker posted:neurosis Enough to put my therapist's kids through college.
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Jan 5, 2020 01:19
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Awesome stuff: rocks and bugs Less than awesome stuff: memories of my father
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Jan 5, 2020 01:25
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jazzyhattrick posted:Pogs.
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Jan 5, 2020 01:42
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Enemies
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Jan 5, 2020 01:43
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Turtles.
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Jan 5, 2020 01:46
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I used to collect marbles and micro machines which were just smaller dinky cars (hopefully "dinky" car isn't a problematic term these days)
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Jan 5, 2020 01:50
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Post cards. My parents had saved my collection and I looked at it and was amazed at how boring it was. One card did have a recipe for Cincinnati chili that my mom made at my insistence when I was a kid and we hated it. Oh and stamps.
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Jan 5, 2020 01:56
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Cincinatti chili is an abomination, and people from there should be ashamed.
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Jan 5, 2020 02:00
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jazzyhattrick posted:Pogs. Same. But my slammer collection was where it was at, since most people had the same pogs
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Jan 5, 2020 02:03
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I've got a shitload of Star Wars toys from the 90s. Many of them are still in box because I figured for sure they'd be worth a lot of money in the future (they're not) I also spent entirely too much of my parents money on Crazy Bones. I found an image online. They looked like this. 
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Jan 5, 2020 02:06
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Beer cans, I had like 300
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Jan 5, 2020 02:41
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Burt Sexual posted:Beer cans, I had like 300 do you live in a frat house?
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Jan 5, 2020 02:44
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Star Trek CCG. I only played one game ever and it wasn’t fun.
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Jan 5, 2020 02:47
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My parent's house was built on the remains of a old mink farm. So as a kid, when digging in the yard you'll find their food dishes, bones, and wire mesh of their cages. So I started collecting the skulls. I had a brown lunch bag filled with mink skulls. I wish I kept it because it was pretty cool. Other than that, it was Micro-machines, CORPS action figures, and Lego.
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Jan 5, 2020 02:51
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I had a binder full of Pogs, pog binder is such a weird concept now to me
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Jan 5, 2020 02:52
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Sid Vicious posted:I had a binder full of Pogs, pog binder is such a weird concept now to me I remember having one too. It is the children who are weird
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Jan 5, 2020 02:54
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Pick posted:Turbo cool:
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Jan 5, 2020 03:00
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They've got GUTS you SQUISH and SQUASH  
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Jan 5, 2020 03:06
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Pewter wizards - to be fair, I never paid for nor asked for them. For some reason my mother randomly decided that I would collect pewter wizards so she had something to give me as gifts for birthdays/Christmas/etc. Crab claws - Every time we went to Red Lobster, I'd get crab legs and keep the crab claw. When they started to smell bad, I would get Bubbalicious bubble gum, chew it up, and stuff it into the crab claw to seal it up and mitigate the stink.
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Jan 5, 2020 03:12
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LabyaMynora posted:Pewter wizards - to be fair, I never paid for nor asked for them. For some reason my mother randomly decided that I would collect pewter wizards so she had something to give me as gifts for birthdays/Christmas/etc. I had a crab claw from a crab i owned who sadly was murdered by a goldfish for years
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Jan 5, 2020 03:13
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Sid Vicious posted:I had a crab claw from a crab i owned who sadly was murdered by a goldfish for years how does that even happen
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Jan 5, 2020 03:16
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I used to collect those japanese wrestling dudes. They were pretty cool
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Jan 5, 2020 03:17
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Dice. Not even 20-sided or anything. Just plain-rear end six-sided dice. I don't even know why the gently caress I did. A few times I had a little collection going of those animal figurines that came in boxes of tea(my grandma and our neighbors would give them to me). My dad always threw them out after a while.
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:how does that even happen Idk he was one of those big bubble eye mutant gold. Fish and he killed Captain Hook
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