VHS Wrestling Specials
Be it gladiator fights, Fight Club or WWE, we can’t escape the notion that since the dawn of time people have enjoyed watching other people beat each other up for entertainment. Combine that thirst for blood with some thirst for vintage and you might land on some cash.
As it turns out, some people still keep VHS tapes despite the fact that virtually no one has a VCR these days. If you happen to stumble upon such a VHS with the ’80s or ’90s wrestling special, there could be a few hundred dollars for you right there. Such a tape with the 1986 Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament could be sold for up to 400$.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards
Japanese manga series Yu-Gi-Oh! has been around since 1996, and just like any other self-respecting worldwide sensation, it soon started releasing mountains of merchandise. Much like other hits of its kind, it released trading cards too. If you happen to have any of those lying around, you'd be happy to know you could trade them for lots of money.
An original first-edition of the coveted booster box of Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon has already been sold for $1450. Even individual cards from a box like this could be sold for several hundred dollars. If you used to collect them as a kid, you could be sitting on a gold mine.
Vintage Radio Controlled Cars
Sorry to break it to you but electric, non-polluting cars running on clean energy have been here long before we realized sustainability was even a thing. Sadly, those cars were tiny and by no means could sit a family of five, but let's not focus on the negative, shall we?
So, if at some point in your childhood, you decided to have some fun with an RC car until you were old enough to drive the real thing, listen up. Vintage models of RC cars could be sold for hundreds of dollars. While there's still demand for opened and used ones, rare models of unboxed cars have the highest profit potential.
Stamps
Okay, so technically these aren't toys, but they used to be just as fun to collect when we were kids and the mail services weren't so useless. And while people aren't using regular mail like they used to, the stamp-collecting scene hasn't gone anywhere.
Old and rare stamps (or better yet – original sheets of them) could be highly coveted within the stamping community, and collectors could pay a pretty penny for them. In 2016, for example, a sheet of Bugs Bunny stamps from 1997 was sold for $90. In 2019, another stamp set of Junior Duck Stamps was sold for nearly $1,000!
Life-Sized E.T.
Growing up in the '80s means you've heard the sentence"E.T. phone home" more times than you can count. Much like other Hollywood hits, the merchandise wasn't too far behind, and many kids asked for a life-sized E.T. toy. Those toys were 38 inches tall and were the closest thing children had to a fantastic alien friend.
If such a toy was part of your collection when you were little, you better hope that you can still remember where it is. In case it doesn't possess a special sentimental value, you could sell it online for 700-900 dollars.