Confess your childhood collection that felt valuable at the time

[BradBytheway]

Bottle caps, trading cards, stickers, whatever it was you were absolutely convinced would fund your retirement one day. Share it and whether you still have any of it stashed away somewhere.

[Will81]

Had a shoebox of trading cards I was completely convinced would be worth a fortune one day, checked online recently, the whole collection is worth less than the shoebox itself

[PhotonBurst17]

Collected stickers purely for the smell, not the design, genuinely couldn't tell you what half of them even looked like anymore

[MattHardy]

Stamps

[Cass87]

My bottle cap collection lived under my bed for years, convinced it was some kind of secret treasure, my parents eventually just quietly recycled the lot

[Grace9]

Was absolutely certain my collection of promotional erasers was going to be worth something someday, still have no idea what logic led me to that conclusion