What did you collect as a child and what do you still collect? For example, I miraculously preserved the earbuds from the Turkish “Turbo”, which are more than 20 years old! I don’t really need the collection anymore, but it’s a pity to throw it away or give it to someone - it’s still a memory. And it all started about the same as with my peers, who are already over 30 years old.
As a child, I, like many of my peers, was “sick” of collecting. He collected cigarette packs, beer cans, coins, photographs of Schwarzenegger, Bruce Lee, Stallone and other action heroes, and at the same time collected a lot of other crap. But it all started more than 20 years ago with the inserts of Donald Duck and Turbo chewing gum. Chewing gum was very expensive at that time, costing a whole ruble, so collecting was difficult: not every mother was ready to part with the equivalent of a kilogram of sugar or five loaves of bread. Therefore, personal savings from set aside funds were used for the purchase.
However, when one or another specimen taken from a package of chewing gum fell into one’s hands, it was one of the happiest moments in a child’s collecting career, which compensated for the exorbitant non-Soviet costs. All inserts were collected by number; if they were the same, they were exchanged for those that were missing or different rate 2 to one or whatever happens. Some schoolchildren played them at school, erasing the collection inserts into the state of royal rubles, thereby adding to their collection or completely losing it.
I collected pictures from the “turbo” painstakingly, number by number. At first there was an impressive stack, but then I decided that I needed to arrange them somehow and began putting them in an album, cutting out corners for them. So I collected several hundred inserts.
I still remember the smell of Turbo chewing gum, which cannot be confused with anything else. Later, the chewing gum deteriorated and the inserts became less desirable, although perhaps we simply grew out of childhood and developed other interests. But the childhood memories embedded in the chewing gum inserts remained.
