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who used to collect beer mats ?

ive often thought about collecting matchboxes again i used to have hundreds of them from all over the world,id never have thought theyd be valuable but ive seen some of the older ones do silly money on ebay,it figures they would when i no longer have mine

Lots of lads I knew collected them when we were kids. I suppose in the late 70s they were the ultimate in advertising !!!

Now I tend to find you go in a pub and all the beer mats are the same (I can feel a new collection coming on)

I used to collect beer mats and matchboxes in the 70's too.  I had a huge box of matchboxes that my dad sold for me for a fiver!  It was a lot of money in them days, I wish I'd kept them though.

Snap,i used to collect beer mats,some foreign too and match boxes,my pride and joy,as well as my collection of smelly rubbers and keyrings.I would get my pocket money(the most i ever got was £.1.50,and that stopped when i hit 16,had to get a Saturday job)and carefully choose which rubber or keyring to buy,baring in mind they were about 50p each,so one a week,that was all i could afford.