A trade with TCDB member ThirstDeer provided a nice memory.
1988-89 Panini Stickers are the first ones I clearly remember from collecting stickers and cards as a kid. I would get a bunch of these when my mom went shopping. I worked on filling the albums and would take the extra ones to school to give away or hand out as I didn't nude the duplicates. Not a lot of kids into the stickers thing then, but it's what I did and seeing these reminded me of giving them out on the school grounds.
The album is long gone, probably disposed of as a teen or moving out to university, but nice to have many back here. The Hockey Wit card was an extra, and now I have half of the 6 Toronto cards for it, so that's cool too.
I think sticker collecting did beat card collecting, but definitely worked as a gateway collection on the way to cards. Not sure if that was anyone else's experience, but definitely mine!
A. I loved collecting Topps baseball stickers when I was a kid. A few years ago I went out and bought the 1982 Topps album because it was the first one I remember collecting.
ReplyDeleteB. Never seen the Hockey Wit set before, but I picked up the 1989 Baseball Wit set back in April at a flea market.
Just before you, I started with the Panini baseball stickers as my main foray into collecting for a few years. Grocery store trips. I think I bought a few packs of the hockey, but never committed to collecting them.
ReplyDeleteI found the albums recently!
Amazes me how the albums still seem to be floating around.
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