The beginnings of a collector...
I’m pretty sure the first thing I ever started collecting was something that my mom started collecting and ‘handed down’ to me to continue collecting. She started buying me star wars figures at garage sales for me when I was probably about 3 or 4 years old. That merged into Indiana Jones, GI Joes, and He-Man and Shee-ra action figures. Once I hit a peak with those, my mom started pushing me towards cards...not sports cards but other types...she had collected a bunch of Beatles cards and movie or show cards from the early 70’s and 80’s (Batman, Superman, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Addams Family, etc.)...and when I showed a predilection towards Garbage Pail Kids, she started helping me collect those. It didn’t consume me like my collecting did in later years...mostly because I didn’t have an allowance and didn’t have enough money to buy my own cards. But it was a start. And it was my start.