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5 Everyday 90s Collectibles Now Worth A Small Fortune
If only we had held onto some of these, we’d probably be glad about it.
Nostalgia
— A word associated not just with retrospective emotional value (or a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky), but also with money. Below is a list of things I or others in my peer group collected, casually. In those days they seemed valuable mostly to kids. Now, many adults would get excited to hear about their salability.
There are some clues that a childhood hobby was bound to explode in value. During the time, was it relatively coveted and beginning to appreciate? Were some items rarer and more sought after than others, leading to attention and craze about collecting? Was it still relatively new, and not proven to be more than just a fad then?
Maybe this was right around the time you decided to sell or trade your collection. In that case, you could’ve made a big mistake.
1. Comic Books
It’s no surprise that some comic-book related memorabilia have become exponentially more valuable. Just think about how much all the comic book movies make, and how popular they are. By the time I was a child of collecting age, comics were nothing to sneer at.
