First collections you ever had

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Permalink Reply by Scott King on May 12, 2009 at 11:12

My earliest collection- rocks. Not just any run-of-the-mill rock though. I specialized in rocks with holes all the way through them. Keep them up 30 years, until my kids, when they were young, got into my collection.

Permalink Reply by bill bedenbender on May 14, 2009 at 8:15

The first thing that I started collecting was Baseball Cards. I still have a lot of them, but I haven't bought many in the past years.

Permalink Reply by Scott King on May 14, 2009 at 14:15

...could probably trade them for a few knives :)

Permalink Reply by Randy Huckeby on June 29, 2009 at 21:05

Baseball Cards which I still have but no longer actively collect. Comic books and marbles that have disappeared. I collected a lot of Coca Cola bottle caps for prizes as a kid and collected all different kinds of empty pop bottles to sell back to the merchants.

Permalink Reply by Trent Rock on August 6, 2009 at 1:48

Rocks (I took yearly trips from California to Colorado in a car from when I was born)
Baseball cards
Guns when I turned 16

Permalink Reply by Jakub Capek on November 26, 2009 at 13:20

The first thing I collected was hockey cards. I lived in Edmonton, Alberta as a young child in the early 80s and met the great Greatzky who played for the Edmonton Oilers. I had a shoe box full of hockey cards! Today I still have some, but many were lost during the many times I moved from one place to the other. Later I collected comics- Green Lantern and Green Arrow- just a few of my favorites. I also paint Warhammer figures (one figure a year) and own alot of them... Now I consider myself a knife collector?? I think I will stick to that. - Almost forgot! I collect mountain climbing books and ice axes. This is where I have alot of money. I have a number of ice axes dating back to the late 1880s, I will send a foto.

Permalink Reply by Rick Cothren on December 8, 2009 at 17:29

My first collection that I can remember was beer can coasters. I started picking them up while on a trip in Germany one summer with my Mom at age 14.

That led to beer cans...

Permalink Reply by Andy Voelkle "AxeMan" on January 10, 2010 at 22:22

It was marbles. Say the word out loud ... " m a r b l e s ".
I had three real aggies, real stones, and a couple of Amish ceramic ones and a tobacco bag and a half of serviceable ones for "keeps", the first game a boy plays where he learns that his possessions are up for grabs. I didn't think of it as gambling — it was from age five to somewhere after I entered the Cub Scouts at age eight. An older boy taught me his tricks, and it cost me all my marbles except one aggie I hid out.

After a few games I got it right, and after that marbles was not gambling, it was war. That held me good until I retired last Spring — I lost the stuff in my room many times, the car and contents more than once, three boats, two airplanes, a nice 10-speed, a lot of use in one leg, an ear and an eye. I gained about 15 feet of stitches, some chunks of plastic and glass and some lead. After coming home and prowling through some jewelry I found some old mementos — and I found that precious aggie. I lived. I won. Life is a little like marbles, and God collects us all.

Permalink Reply by Scott King on January 11, 2010 at 6:59

Nice story and right on point, Andy.

Permalink Reply by Terry Waldele on February 28, 2010 at 3:37

My first collection was plastic model cars from the early 1900s, when I was about 9 or 10, I guess. I must have built 8 or 10 of them, admittedly a pretty small collection.

Then, it was model airplanes - WWII and Korean War fighter planes. I spent hours building and painting maybe 10 or 15 of them altogether. Some had balsa wood frames covered with paper, with rubber band motors, and were flyable. Most of them were plastic, non-flyable, and just fun to look at and have pretend dogfights with. My favorites were the P51D Mustang, the P38 Lightning, and the F86 Sabre Jet. In fact, 2 or 3 years ago, my wife and I visited theEvergreen Air Museum near McMinnville, OR, and I couldn't resist buying a small metal model of the P38 Lightning for my desk.

Permalink Reply by Scott King on April 7, 2010 at 8:44

Got a collection going of "first generation" Apple computers, from an early laptop, if you can call it that (weighs 5 pds), to first iPhone and now the iPad. I'll keep these for my grandkids to laugh at...my kids have to finish school, get married and then have kids for this to happen though....no hurry.