Do you collect Hotwheels/Johnny Lightening/Matchbox/m2/etc?

Yes, but I take them out of the package. I don't collect for future sale

     Some that are kept sealed are worth BIG bucks. Like old lunch boxes and especially GI JOE. I can not believe what collectors are paying. 

    I can picture you sitting in a sandbox playing with these and your Tonka toys...lol  Original Tonka’s are worth a small fortune in mint condition, especially the bigger models. 

I've actually wanted a tonka truck for some time now.  I am just so into cars its incredible.  I eat sleep breathe cars, especially 20s-90s cars.  If I had money like Leno or Escobar (another famous collector..) I'd have garages full.  I never buy my cars on the internet, I like hunting in walmarts for them, and I never spend more than $5, most of my cars i spend only $1.  So it doesnt put a huge dent in my expenses.  I was thinking one day, as I walked through a car show in Las Vegas, I wish I could have all of these cars.  I had a few HW at home, but nothing serious.  Then it clicked, I can have all of these cars.  So I took out the notebook I keep in my front pocket and began writing down all of my favourite cars in the lot.  Then I started hunting in Wal-marts for them, and before I knew it, I had all 15 of them, albeit 1:64 scale.  Now I have a fullscale problem.  I am probably going to end up in diecast addicts anonymous some day.

I gave up on collecting stuff.  I passed on all my mtg cards to my son.  He is collecting them now.....muwhahaha.

I don't have the space for collections any more.  I would rather just sit back and relax when not at work.

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I don't believe I said how much we live on, but would certainly go broke with all the equipment I would need to be mobile. My point was that I don't care about money. My kids can deal with the house (paid off), 7 thousand books. Several thousand comics, railroad items, 1000 ceramics, too many thousands baseball, wrestling, football, basketball cards, about a thousand double vintage, ancient and colonial coins, magazines, pulp, miniature cars.
Where I to go anywhere it would be to Bhutan or Kathmandu to get away from all this

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^^^this

I keep my collections as small as I can.  Sorry you've got some pretty serious health concerns.  I do too, with two bad hips, a shoulder surgery gone awry, degenerative joint disease in both feet and ankles, and the worse one is the spinal stenosis with radiculopathy.  You just have to do what you can with what you have been given in life.  Since I was discharged out of the military, I've had to downscale my life quite considerably.  I learn to live good with less.  When you widdle life down to its bare essentials, its amazing how much excess we live with in today's society.  For me $1 diecast cars are a small luxury, literally a small luxury, that I can afford.

     A song for us both....enjoy👍 

Yeah the diecast car hobby is definitely not as big among the youngsters as it was in my generation, sadly. Also if you look at most of the new hotwheels nowadays theyre not even weird cars, theyre strange inventions, more toyish. But I will say this, HW (and even moreso, Johnny Lightening) has been great to us loyal fans by continuing to release real scale models of real cars.

I was super excited when I found out that my new girlfriend's son is into collecting diecast cars! I just bought him one of those 5 for $5 packs. He's into newer stuff than I am. There is, however, an 85 Honda CR-X in this gift pack. Too cool!

Yeah the reason I picked it is because its the same colour as the original 55/56 Fury, eggshell white with the gold trim.  That is actually my dream car!

yea i have over 2000 cars probly more

Didn't realy collect 'em but had a lot of 'em back in the early '60s and think I've still got a box with the few I have left in it in some closet. I liked the Dinkey cars better as they were bigger and had more detail! 

mine r all put away but my mom started it for mw before she passed away so its verry close to my heart.