Five things you should never have collected

Tony

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Are you among the people who hoarded Beanie Babies or Pokemon cards in hope of one day making a huge profit? If, so, we have some bad newsSomewhere in the depths of your attic, is there a box of objects that you sunk a fair bit of cash into, convinced you had uncovered the ultimate collector's...

Five things you should never have collected (external link to Guardian Consumer Affairs)
 

Chutzpah

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Hm, slightly unrelated but that's just twigged my memory. I remember having a BT phonecard with a special phone number on it in the days before mobiles. When I phoned the number on it I would be connected to my parents, and the charge for the call would appear on their home phone bill. That way I never needed to have money on me to phone home.

I guess all kids seem to have mobiles nowadays.