Who was the last pony you got before you considered yourself a "Collector"?

When I was twelve I decided it was time to pack up the ponies. I stored them in a big cardboard under-the-bed storage box. Fast forward to 6 years later, my boyfriend and I were at a flea market. I saw Cotton Candy laying on a tarp marked 75 cents. 75 cents and all by herself! I didn't have her either...but at the same time I didn't want my boyfriend to think I was a weirdo that wanted a toy. I passed her up. But before I got to the end of the row, I turned around to go back for her. My boyfriend was confused as to why I was going back. Then I spoke the words "I'm a collector." 16 years later we are married and he now helps me find them at garage sales/flea markets to hopefully some day finish the entire US G1 collection.
 
My collection began when I was about 5 or 6. My parents had either bought or given me G1's to play with - this was a horrible mistake, as now many are chewed and ini bad condition. Anyway, when I got to age about 9 I just sort of forgot I had them and left them in a box. When I was 10, my family moved out, and my mum saw the ponies. She mentioned how much she loved them and how many (74 at the time) I had. I slowly got back into them, interested in their individuality and value. Now, I'm obsessed!
 
I started collecting back in 83/84 - my first ponies were Moondancer and Firefly, I thought of myself as a collector from the start because I looked at the backcard, with all the other ponies besides Moondancer and Firefly and decided I wanted to have them all. So there was no last pony for me, it was from the first.
 
I suppose it would be G2 Sky Skimmer for me. I had given up my childhood collection when I was 13 (stupidest moment ever). Fast forward to 1997, and while I was in university I was in a department store when I discovered G2s. I bought one for nostalgic value. Shortly after that, I discovered ebay, and the rest is history.

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Ponies were off the shelves when I started collecting as a "collector" rather than a kid who wanted lots of them, but hadn't been gone for long. I remember missing them in stores badly and I bought a Rinse 'n Spit fakie because she looked juuuust enough like MLP to sate me. Then one day while I was over at Aadra's house her family had been cleaning their attic and she had her ponies in her room. We got to talking about them and how much we loved them and decided we'd collect them. I can't remember the first ponies we found thrifting/ flea marketing/garage salaing, but there were a lot of them!
 
Wow. Like so many others, it's hard for me to say. The collecting bug just bit my bunny butt during the night, I suppose. I bought what I could when I could, but then found myself thinking one day, "I need more blue. There's not near enough blue Ponies here in my herd!" and went off in search of them. That was probably the telling moment.

There have been many moments since then, as my skinny wallet can attest to.
 
I know around year 6 of G1, I started to keep the back cards (except for cutting out the horseshoe points, of course), so that was probably the transitional period where I started to take my little ponies a bit more seriously.
 
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