<p>inklink…we have the entire POG collection here and also a large Halloween costume I made for my D who dressed as a POG (like a big sandwich board.)</p>
<p>I wish I hadn’t sold DD’s first cello (bought used, but a lovely 1/4 size suzuki solid wood back one), or the kids duplo and playmobile collections, and all of their baby clothes outfits. All gone… :(</p>
<p>It’s too late for me - all my collectible toys have been thrown out long ago. But my sons had quite the Pokemon card collection and I’m saving them – ya never know! I’m hoping that in about 25 years or so they’ll be so nostalgic for Pokemon and Power Ranger toys that they’ll be glad I did.</p>
<p>I also saved a bunch of Happy Meal toys (unopened) in their original packages. They don’t take up much room and they might be collectible many years down the road. :)</p>
<p>^^ Me too. Happy Meal toys. We also still have a couple of boxes of Beanie Babies, although these aren’t considered old yet…or are they? (lack of confidence here because of my bad about Archie comics!)</p>
<p>Got the Beanie Babies too. You name it, we still have it, LOL.</p>
<p>^^That’s why beanie babies will never be very valuable as collectors’ items – everybody’s still got them, including us. The world is awash in beanie babies.</p>
<p>My mother-in-law saved all of my husband’s Hot Wheels, and the little plastic race track. They’re in great shape,too. I have all the kids’ Power Rangers, including a never-opened, in the box Green Power Ranger (big size) that MIL bought to put away. Back then I was hoping to sell it to help with college costs, wishful thinking!</p>
<p>I wish I still had all my books from childhood. And my cute little pillow cases/sheets.</p>
<p>coureur, trust me that we haven’t saved these things because we feel they’ll all be collector’s items. We just have saved everything. I guess they are simply personal collector’s items! 
I have every piece of art work they’ve done, you name it. Moving would be…well, I don’t wanna think about what that would involve!</p>
<p>We have a collection of teddy bears…Boyds, Steif, Gund, all with original tags. And one very limited Beanie Baby…a magenta new face bear. It’s the only one we have. We also have the Samantha and EVERY accessory that was made available for her, and a Bitty Baby. But those belong to my kiddo.</p>
<p>I wish we still had the antique end tables that I, as a spoiled new bride, sold at a garage sale to an obvious antique dealer for $20. (Ew, they’re ugly, I’m going for the 80’s look… what a twit.)</p>
<p>I had a Francie, and a Skipper. Skipper was a complete child (flat chested) whereas Francie was a teen (small chested). Versus BARBIE, who was stripper country.</p>
<p>My brother magic-markered a moustache on my Ken doll, which was not appreciated (he didn’t do a very good job). As penance, he used an exacto-knife to carve off the evidence. I ended up with a Ken doll who looked like a mouth cancer survivor. Suffice it to say, between stripper Barbie and her disfigured boyfriend, I had many hours of interesting play.</p>
<p>thumper…we have a bunch of American Girl stuff too…Kirsten and all her stuff and a “girl of Today” and all the furniture, accesories, etc. That is one expensive collection. When I think of what an outfit costs for that doll…</p>
<p>Me, I’m always trying to get rid of all that ****. Lugging junk around, watching it get more and more bedraggled until it ends up in some Florida thrift shop, chipped and repaired? Nope, I’m happy to goodwill stuff while it can make someone else happy. </p>
<p>However, some members of my family disagree… we still have my son’s science fiction, my daughter’s stuffed animals (about half of the original collection)… </p>
<p>If you really regret something… buy it on EBay. If you regret you didn’t keep it so you could sell it, think about the costs of proper storage, moving stuff, etc. Then the price on EBay looks pretty good. </p>
<p>If you don’t want perfectly good stuff anymore: give it away, take it to Value Village, sell it on EBay or at Half-price Books… but don’t let it sit around rotting until you die and your kids have to deal with junk and trash.</p>
<p>Things I wish my mom hadn’t thrown away:</p>
<p>45 rpm’s including Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc.</p>
<p>Comic books, action hero types like Green Lantern and Superman</p>
<p>Well, at least she never found my secret stash of Playboys!</p>
<p>^^^ LOL! Priorites, dude, priorities</p>
<p>doubleplay—I had a Francie doll, too! My mother refused to buy me a Barbie, because she thought her anatomical features were obscene. She was SHOCKED several years ago when younger D (the barbie lover in our family) got her first Ken doll on Christmas morning. I think she was maybe 4 yrs old, her older sis was 6. Mom overheard the older one asking whether Ken had a p****s. Mom was mortified when she told me about hearing them and asked, “how does she know that word?!!” I answered, “Maybe, because that’s what it is!!!” I’m sure it was then that my mother knew I was going to raise my children to be “loose women.”!!! I don’t still have my Francie doll, but I do have my Chatty Cathy (minus most of her hair, thanks to my budding beautician stage back there in the 60’s!!!), Baby Secret, Baby Beans, and a few of my all time favorite stuffed animals that look like they’ve been chewed up and spit out. (certainly they all saw the insides of the washer and dryer many times way back when!!!)</p>
<p>H and I still have all our albums. When we pulled out several of the ones with music that D1 has loaded on her IPOD, we confirmed that yes, we’re cool.</p>
<p>LOL astrophysicsmom! </p>
<p>I wish I kept my pencil cases. I used to love them and had quite a collection. My favorite was the one where the lid was a ruler that slid out. It had a pencil sharpener on one end too.</p>
<p>I had the original Barbie, also Ken, Midge, Skipper, the dream house and lots of wonderful clothes. Gave them to the Salvation Army in my idealistic teens. I don’t fully regret it because someone got to play with them, but when the Shelburne Museum in VT had a special exhibit on toys, I was happy to see a life-size blow-up of the original Barbie in her original dream house (I think it had a hi-fi and a Vic Damone album). I did save lots of my paper dolls though. For my 40th birthday, my dear sister gave me a paper doll set of <em>my</em> Barbie, with a lot of the clothes we had–wonderful present.</p>
<p>Re: the baby teeth, I still have some of my son’s because at some point in his childhood, he decided he wanted to save them up and get “a lump sum” from the tooth fairy.</p>
<p>My grandmother gave me her Singer sewing machine that she must have gotten in around 1920. It was black, with some beautiful Singer decals on the front. I put it in the trash on the street when I lived in Manhattan around 1972. Sigh.</p>
<p>That’s so funny, bethievt. Did your son get his lump sum? :D</p>
<p>I still have my girls’ baby teeth. Maybe I should string them up and make a bracelet out of them…</p>
<p>No, clueless–that’s why I still have the teeth. Maybe for his 21st birthday I should put a fancy little box under his pillow with several silver dollars. I’m sure he’s forgotten about them by now.</p>