Did anyone else collect these?

china trinket boxes , My Dad used to take me to "The Barras" in Glasgow to buy them from stalls and antique shops I gave them all to my daughter and my GD has them now ,I also collected jam pots, the decorative ones like houses and bee hives etc .They are still in the cupboard and come out if we have folk for breakfast ...lolAs an adult I collect CD's and cookery books and nice wines my OH collects whiskey/whisky

They don’t sell for anything on EBay I ve tried I have about 6 huge plastic tubs of matchboxes and books matches Grandma
I Collected stamps, matchboxes, postcards, souvenir pens, fossils Pop posters you name it I collected it ?

I still have all my Wade Whimsies. They got passed down to my children, then when they left home the ornaments stayed and I have them dotted over the house and even a few in the garden where my grandchildren have made a small fairy village

Yes, I collected whimsies, and had every one, I think.
They stayed at my mums when I left, but I'm not sure where they ended up when she died.

I'm the minimalist's nightmare.
Me too EV, although I do have good intentions
then remember with nostalgia some of the things my mother threw out …..

Thanks Gabriella, but I have looked on Ebay in the past and there seem to be many collections like mine going for a couple of quid!

thinknsbout think about

GrandmaKT
You might like to thinknsbout selling them on eBay.
I saw some old pub tin serving trays with logos of long obsolete beers printed on them, some barely visible through all the scratches but believe me, several were actually sold for more than £1000, not withdrawn bids.
One man's trash...you get my gist.
I bought a square wooden ashtray with a bakelite parrot perched on one corner, for £3.20 about 5 years ago. Don't ask why...I'm not a smoker but bakelite was sort of popular that year and I bought to sell on.
It was bought a few weeks later, by a guy who, presumably, worked at a Kent airfield as that's where I posted it to and it attracted about 25 bids. He paid £82.51p. I checked on my account just now.
It's what it's worth to the buyer which is not always it's real value.

My mum collected Green Shield stamps but I've no idea what she bought with them.
I collected toys in boxes of Kelloggs. We were always exited to get to the bottom and see what we could add to our collection. I have the whole set of magic roundabout figures in each of the colours. I also have a set of NatWest pigs and still have one of the earliest toys that Kelloggs put into their boxes more than 65 years ago. It's a red, thick rubbery-plastic helicopter which dismantles into 5 separate pieces. The belly, then the two 'landing' wheels fit on top then the cockpit then the rotor blades fit onto a plug which goes through the whole craft and you turn it to fix in position.
Much better than any plastic nonsense you buy now.

I collected matchboxes and matchbooks. I still have suitcases full of them from the 60s and 70 in the lofts. Never knew what to do with them!

I collected those paper scraps too Terribull and like others those Wade whimsies. I think my “clutter bug” tendencies must have begun in those early days!

Now I've a satisfying little collection of coloured glass bits and pieces on my kitchen windowsill, gathered from all all over the place. Then there’s the Silver Scenes photo frames and small dishes that my old boy bought me when the children were small. Oh and a few tasteful ceramics..... I try to be really strict with myself....and sometimes I fail!!

I collected "scraps" this was when I was in junior school. the scraps comprised of packets of glossy pictures purchased at newsagents. This was a craze for a while at my school, we put them between book pages and took the books into school, then we'd swap books and if we wanted to negotiate a swap, the scraps were pushed above the page..........then the haggling began until a satisfactory exchange was agreed on/or not! The most coveted ones were sets of angels and cherubs in different sizes.

I used to collect WADE whimsies, and had a couple of hundred, but I sold them, to a dealer, a few years ago now.
I also had/ have some stamp albums, but not sure where they are at the moment.
Now, it is coloured glass that I try hard to resist. Just small objects, but I do like Mdina glass, and it is all in a cabinet that used to belong to my mum. I have fairy lights in there, and in the darker days, it looks very nice when they are lit.
Thinking about it, I also like things made from wood. This afternoon, I bought a nut cracker, shaped like a fish.
No hope for me then.

I believe Wade whimsies are quite valuable nowadays. I had a few, and gave them away years later as being childish!

I still have several of the Wade figures - I am led to believe that they have increased in price.

I've still got all kinds of collections from 100's of old stamps, coins, bank notes, Whimsies inc.Lady and the Tramp figures, Wallace and Gromit from a tea collection Goss porcelain, everything imaginable in my display cabinets.

I'm the minimalist's nightmare.

In 1963/64 seemingly everyone at my primary school was collecting cards of flags of the world from chewing gum packets. Chile was the elusive one. More recently, Embassy fag coupons. (GG1 used to like playing with Shopkins. Luckily she is moving on to less plasticky stuff now, as already mentioned you can imagine it clogging up the oceans).

I used to collect the coloured Smarie tops and my friends and I used to lodge them in the spokes of our bike wheels. Not quite the same as Wade Whimsies.

Pop star cards from the ice cream van. Groups such as Hermans' Hermits and the Kinks. We would swap them, sitting on the kerb with our lollies melting.

We sell Wade Whimsies on our 'antiques' stall, they always go well, especially to children.

Wade Whimsies, which I passed on to the DGC; they may not look at them but they could sell them one day!!
PG Tips cards, we used to swap them at school.

I used to collect stamps when I was about 8 or 9 but I expect they got thrown out when I left home.

Brooke bond tea card sets

Shopkins seem to be garish plastic mini figures that are based on things you find in shops and live in plastic baskets. I haven't looked too closely. We collected green shield stamps too and got glasses and all sorts via those.

Trying to remember which whimsies I had and where they might be. Long lost I suspect.

I didn't collect anything but my sister collected 'jewels' She had a big box of all sorts of glass beads , pearls, etc. She and her friends spent hours swapping them and sorting them. I wonder where they are now?

MiniMoon my DH has boxes of Rugby World monthly magazines in the loft. He's been collecting them for about 35 yrs. They never see the light of day.
I didn't collect as a child but I do have about 40 dolphins made of wood, china and glass.