my kites for the first 25 years, were 5 and dime, paper and plastic, or home made out of anything we could scrounge up. In the later years I would go into the stores off season and purchase kites and line for 1.00 or less, I still look for great deals on cheap kites, then when out at the beach or park and a young person gets interested I give them a kite and line. My first real kite was a Coaster Delta from Catch the Wind. Then I got the 2 line bug and got some rainbows that was around 1978, since then I have increased the number of kite bags (5 currently not counting the Nexus 7 stack) Luckily I don't suffer from regret of selling a kite, I have all from 197? to present. I have been doing a photo inventory, I think I have about half of my collection uploaded so far.