WERE you convinced that collecting some bullshit as a child would pay off in adulthood? Is your collection worth f**k all on eBay? These obsessions weren’t worth your investment:
Pogs
Cardboard discs? Why? There’s always going to be a rare pog that fetches a fortune but it’s none of the ones you hoarded which makes them exactly the waste of money your parents told you they were. Yes, that includes the shiny kinis, too.
Football stickers
All those lunch breaks watching tough kids from the year above rifle through your collection of Premier League ‘97 Merlin stickers was for nothing. Not least because you didn’t even like football to begin with and were just trying to fit in.
Yoyo tricks
Millions of children were tricked into believing they could be the yo-yo Tony Hawk, mastering hundreds of tricks the world didn’t want to see any more than their parents did. Which is saying something because Tik Tok is clogged with kids doing truly inane shit and raking it in.
Warhammer
You were never, ever going to turn a profit collecting models from Games Workshop. Not only did you have to buy the kits but you had to fork out for the paints as well, none of which was cheap. Melt the figures down for scrap and you might get a couple of quid.
Academic achievement
You doggedly pursued those top grades and diligently did those extracurricular activities, but the world’s still run by stupids. But at least you have an educated view of the rise of populist nationalism, so you’ll get to feel smug about that as you’re dragged off to a re-education camp.
