Just like some of the others above, I’ve collected almost my entire life. It started with just pretty pebbles and post stamps when I was 4-5 years old, and expanded from there
I’ve collected post stamps; minerals, gemstones, and fossils; Pokémon TCG cards; Yu-Gi-Oh TCG cards; foreign coins; collectibles from local supermarkets (e.g. Happy Tail plushies; pogs/tazos/flippos; 3D cards; etc.); euro coins; twisty puzzles. I even had some virtual collections, like all TF2 weapons (except for the golden weapons, like the Frying Pan and Saxxy).
So if Pokémon wasn’t a thing, I’d probably still collect either twisty puzzles or Yu-Gi-Oh rarities, the two active collections I had when I started collecting Pokémon again nine years ago. I’ve also thought a few times about collecting MTG cards, even though I never did as a kid/teenager. And collecting Lego would be pretty cool as well (although very expensive I’d imagine…) Like maybe one of each type of Lego brick or every Lego figure or something along those lines.
Greetz,
Quuador