Super balls;
Those bouncy rubber balls that can be found in most quarter machines outside super markets. I buy one every time I see one of those machines, I have over fifty and some of them are really neat and impossible to find now.
Rocks;
Most of them have some form of meaning behind them. The most I have, which is a rather large plastic box full, were gifts from people who knew I collected them.
Bottles;
Plastic mostly. I dye my hair a lot, or used to, and I liked the little bottles that were used to mix the dye. I saved them all. I have too many.
Game booklets;
I will not buy a game unless it comes with one and I never actually look at the thing, I just like having them...I've actually gotten into trouble for stealing them out of rented games.
Stuffed animals;
Namely polar bears, I have enough to fill a small bedroom with just polar bears. I do not, however, have the one polar bear I've always wanted which is the coca cola bear.
Lighters;
Not working lighters, mind you, they have to be broken. I like fixing them. I have a lot of really weird lighters now because someone saw them and now people give me broken lighters..
Chains;
I have a lot of chains. Anything from a simple necklace chain to one you might find attached to an anchor. My mother has them all now as I never bothered to get them from our old garage, but I still have a few bags full of bike, necklace and boot chains.
Pendants;
I only liked the chains on most necklaces I'd get or find. I kept the neat looking pendants though, mainly pewter ones that were found at flee markets.
Locks;
I have a small collection (maybe twenty) of simple little locks that one would usually find hanging off a chain attached to a gate. I used to have a lot of diaries when I was little, unused ones, but I kept all the locks that they came with.
Dice;
I haven't gotten any new ones since it was discovered where I was getting them, but I also used to have a few shoe boxes full of various types of dice. I still have them, seems my husband likes dice too so we combined ours and now have way more than we will ever feasibly need.
Lunch-boxes;
I haven't had these for years but if I could go back in time I would remember to keep them in a safer place, or get a lock for our garage. I had my own lunch box, New Kids one, I had a thing for them when I was five. I also had maybe ten or twelve others that I "collected" from all the various schools I went through as a kid.
Pogs;
I miss Pogs. I was collecting them before everyone at my school starting playing them, but when I began playing I won quite a few more. My mother sold them at a yard sale before we moved out here, I had no choice in that but now I am short one big box of nostalgic childhood.
Goosebumps books;
I had them all. I was a big book nerd in grade school and attended every book fair where I would buy or "collect" these books and the Animorphs series. These were also sold when we moved. I think she sold off half my room before we moved.
I liked keeping hold of neat things I found on the street or near dumpsters. I was a weird kid who was easily amused by dingy, used and possibly broken things. I have so much useless crap...
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