What was the first thing that you started to collect as a child?

@loktak (189)
India
December 29, 2006 6:45am CST
As a child we all like to collect something- stamps, matchboxes, leaves, flowers etc etc and make a collection and show it off. For me, the first ever collection was that of match box covers and after some time I started collecting stamps and then coins and that was it. I have none of the colections with me anymore, they all got lost as I grew up. What did you collect and do you still have you rcollection?
4 responses
@sunita64 (6468)
• India
25 Feb 07
As a child I collected every piece of cloth, that I could drape my doll with in the form of a sarees and I always wanted more clothes so that my doll could wear more sarees.
@loktak (189)
• India
25 Feb 07
Thats a unique thing that you collected. Your doll must have been a very happy doll!
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
31 Dec 06
My first collection of was Match Box cars. I had well over 100 at one time. My biggest collection now is of Legos... I have over 5,000
@loktak (189)
• India
31 Dec 06
You started with match box cars, i started with match box covers. so something is similar. 5,000 legos, you can make a lot with that!!
@cheenlly (3476)
• Philippines
29 Dec 06
i used to collect stamps before but all of them are gone when our house was renovated and some things are thrown maybe my stamps are included. I was really upset then thats why i havent collect anymore. Recently i love to collect little shells from beach like those which can be use as accessories.
@loktak (189)
• India
29 Dec 06
I agree! it sucks to lose a collection that you have painstakingly acquired over the years, Collecting shells sounds interesting.
• United States
29 Dec 06
I collect everything. I'm a total pack rat. The thing that I intentionally collected first was probably sports cards, mostly baseball. I've sorta given up on that though and sold most all of them. Now most of the money I spend towards things I collect goes towards tribal art. Most of the pieces are from tribes in various african countries and a little from south america and asia.
@loktak (189)
• India
30 Dec 06
Sports cards are always fun to collect, specially as a child. COllecting tribal art sounds interesting too. As for your being a pack rat, I feel that collecting is natural human instinct.