What did you "collect" when you were a kid.

[jfkbengals]

Star Wars toys.

I had them all, and thanks to visits to the Kenner factory whenever we had out of town guests with kids, I had a literal army of storm troopers.

Pretty much everything was kept in the box, as that was the only way I could fit the stuff in my closet.

Around age 19 or 20 I sold it to all to a coworker for around $500 in order to pay some bills without any remote idea of the value.

Upon cataloging it all and checking his price guides, he said the collection was wort roughly $5k.

He was nice enough to kick me another $100 because of it, but I was still livid.

Here we are, 25 years later, and I can't help wonder how much the stuff would be worth today...