Did anyone else collect these?

My Wade Whimsies went to the charity shop. Some of the rarer ones can be valuable but when I checked, I didn't have a valuable one.

Thanks Callistemon and * MOnica* (It's good to learn something new every day!)

I collected Disney characters that stood on a plinth and you pushed in the base to make them move. Can’t remember what they were called!

M0nica, I’m not sure whether I can ask this on an open forum, but here goes; as you seem to have a knowledge about collectables and such. Please forgive my cheek.
May I ask what to do with a 1930’s tea trolley? It was my parent’s, and is glass and chrome, with round tubular, chrome sides, supporting two clear glass shelves. I have seen modern ones, in magazines, and wondered whether an original would be sought after ?

I don't think I was really a collector, but I know I had quite a lot of Whimsies including Lady and the Tramp among other Disney characters. I am sure my mother gave them away when I left home.

I saved Whimsies too and had forgotten about them until I read this post.
I also made Airfix aircraft which were on my dressing table until my mother accidentally knocked a couple of them onto the floor where they broke. She was more upset than I because she knew what care I had taken making and painting them.

It's an interesting idea isn't it.....swapping buttons ( which I remember) or collecting things.

They had value and interest and a tactile quality. How things have changed with the advent of the virtual world.

I used to collect novelty erasers, if you heard at school that one of the shops had a hard to find one you begged parents to let you go to the shops after school to buy said treasure! Must have spent a fair few pounds on those, still have them somewhere in a large shoebox.

I have a collection of the Tetley tea folk and the little houses they lived in, My granddaughters used to love playing with them , but they are too old for that now.

LightAmber - my daughter used to collect novelty erasers but some of them had a sickly smell that I found unpleasant!