Well, I am a huge Gleek so I went to the Gleek-On Convention in Sydney, June 2011. I got the autographs of Ashley Fink, Kevin McHale, Harry Shum Jr and Dot Marie-Jones. Then, when I came home, there was an autographed pic of Mark Salling at my door, as I had emailed him in the weeks leading up to the convention. I eventually ended up writing letters and more emails until my collection began to grow!!!

I took a class on The Beatles and got REALLY interested so I decided I would write a letter to Paul and Ringo and George Martin etc. and then I found other people that I thought I'd like to write to also. The sad thing is that I didn't even think to realize that I could request autographs for awhile so I'm just getting my collection started. I actualy think it's a good start for 8 months!

I always used to get autographs of the AFC Bournemouth football players before the match, and then my Dad sent off some football shirts to clubs and they came back signed. I started to go to movie conventions and wanted to get some addresses for a few movie stars and found this website. I can now write to whoever I want and so far I have had some really great successes.

[quote="tinker_mel"]How did you guys start collecting autographs??

I wanted The Stereophonics autograph and just wrote the one letter.

Then I sent off the odd letter for friends birthdays.

And then around a month ago now I just slowly started collecting.

It kicked off majorly when I decided to quit smoking 2/3 weeks ago.

So far it's worked!!

Each time I fancy a cig, I just write another letter!

Mind you, writing and sending off the letters has cost me more than smoking lol
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I have quite a funny story about how I started.

I was doing a Google images search for Ant and Dec, and I saw one of a signed photo. I looked at it, and there was a persons collection. I started chatting to them, and they suggested I start as well. I wrote off a few, then got hooked, and now I have over 300 autographs!

because my friend wants me to send off prints of my drawings, and see what will happen.... and i never get anything in the mail anyway.... its always bills for my parents, wich drives them mad. why not make the mail fun again.

thats how im going to start.

how long did it take to get a reply from 'phonics? I emailed them last month via their official site.

Back in 2002, i became obsessed with Lord of the Rings. So I wrote to Billy Boyd and heard back from him about a month later. so i just started to write to people and then it just became a thing i do now. i wrote to Keira Knightley when Pirates of the Caribbean came out and had great success with her. so i just write to the people i'm a fan of. :)

It's really great to hear everyone's stories!

It's always nice to know how other people started and which celeb inspired them!

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i just first of all went to the collateral premiere and waited ages for an autograph but didnt get one so i decided to write a letter to tom cruise but didnt get a reply! so then i decided that id write to some more celebrities and i got some replies and its just gone from there especially now because i have tom cruise's autograph x3!!!!

I started when i was on natalie and nicole appletons official site when they were a group called Appleton and there was a message from someone who had written to them and got an autograph so i thought it was worth a try to send them a letter as i was a big fan of theres since there all saints days. So anyway i wrote to them and within a week i had received a signed photo from them it was so exiting waiting for it to arrive and i guess i just got addicted to the "waiting for a reply" part of it and of course having a signed photo from someone you think rocks :)

I was working at a hotel when I met Chris Everett. (Former Tennis Star) She gave me her autograph and took a picture with me. I thought it was kinda cool, so I have kept up with it (off and on) since. :)