Anyone collecting Plastic MRT/Train tickets.

Hi - anyone collecting MRT/Train tickets, which are plastic and similar to pre-paid phone cards. If anyone interested please let me know.

Here in New York City we call them Metro Cards.


They can be bought at special vending machines called kiosks;


And can usually find hundreds of used ones littering the floor around the machines and stations;


Why would anyone collect them? They are not old (less than 20 years) and are commonly found because people throw them away after they are used.

I collect the ones I use but I don't have that much of an interest. They are literally all over the city from the streets to the tracks and even the drainage sewers. Metro Cards and Vitamin Water bottles seem to be all that drains into them.

You never know what people might collect. Some people collect old Coke bottles and cans, some are crazy about old match boxes. There are people. I have a bundle of Japan cards which I can swap with coins if I can find one who has an interest.

Cita: madhunagaYou never know what people might collect. Some people collect old Coke bottles and cans, some are crazy about old match boxes. There are people. I have a bundle of Japan cards which I can swap with coins if I can find one who has an interest.

Yes that is a good point. I think people like us are born to collect things...
As a very young child I would collect whatever I could find. I remember finding a beer bottle cap with an interesting design, then another, then next thing you know I had a large collection of all sorts of different brand beer and soda caps. It became an obsession to find the ones that I DID NOT have yet. That lead to beer cans (my parents put an end to that of course, something about having a child with smelly beer cans laying around his room did not sit well).. At that age I also collected everything, comic books, baseball cards, football cards, keys and even rocks !! Anything I could find laying around that I could find one of each kind...

Later on this developed into my collecting world coins, tokens, stamps and currencies.. But I think there is a collector of everything, problem unfortunately is just that not everything is commonly collected or very collectible...

Anyone collecting tickets, they more like card but have a plastic card, I can get you a metro ticket (north east local train)
And the tube :)