do folks here collect other stuff?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by thedutymon

Morning,

As well as collecting Non Sports Cards, I also collect Ex-Wifes....Actually usually let them go, with a 25 ft. head start , Comic Books, First Edition Hardbacks and Rare 19th & 20th century Science Fiction Hardbacks and Paperbacks. Dabble in lots of other stuff WW II Books, have hundreds and hundreds, other stuff!!

YeeHah !!!

Neil

Collecting ex-wives sounds expensive Neil. I hope you and your son can make the dinner again this year at the National.

As for collecting other things.....well, besides cards I collect lots of tobacciana surrounding the cards, wrappers and boxes and etc... surrounding the cards, and last but not least Type 1 photos used to make cards.

[bn2cardz]

I collect:

Top Tier of collecting (On the same level as sports cards):
Batman anything

2nd tier of collecting
Movie Posters
Comics
Some Superman

3rd Tier of collecting
Non sport trade cards
Kids Meal toys
Vinyl Records
Pez Dispensers

I also have tendency to hoard anything that I believe has an interesting tid bit about it.

[skooter]

Silver dollars produced at the New Orleans Mint.

[steve B]

Race used bicycles plus a few other special ones.
1986 US national team team pursuit


Stamps, especially the official mail stamps from the 1870's particularly ones showing defects in the printing plates.
1875 special printing foreign entry of 6c executive on 6c State dept. position 11 One of probably 4-5 sold.


1875 special printing 2c State with double transfer at the bottom. One of 51-52 sold. (On the left, the right one is normal 5,145 sold.)



Plus a bunch of other stuff, but far less seriously.

Steve B

[thedutymon]

Originally Posted by Leon

Collecting ex-wives sounds expensive Neil. I hope you and your son can make the dinner again this year at the National.

Hey Leon,

Thanks for the invite, had planned to be there this year but financially just can't swing it. Like everybody else have not had a raise in 4 years now and my Health care costs have gone up in the last 5 years of 10%, 13%, 30%, 17%, and this year 29%. With HC costs factored in I am now taking home less money then I did when I was in my 20's, am now 55 and am realizing my dreams of retirement are probably not going to happen!!

I make three times what my father did as an Attorney, and I barely make it by, much less security than he ever had.

I have been selling off collectibles for the last 3-5 years to maintain our life and have had to have the internal discussion too many times now of how much do I really want this !!!

Neil

Originally Posted by thedutymon

Hey Leon,

Thanks for the invite, had planned to be there this year but financially just can't swing it. Like everybody else have not had a raise in 4 years now and my Health care costs have gone up in the last 5 years of 10%, 13%, 30%, 17%, and this year 29%. With HC costs factored in I am now taking home less money then I did when I was in my 20's, am now 55 and am realizing my dreams of retirement are probably not going to happen!!

I make three times what my father did as an Attorney, and I barely make it by, much less security than he ever had.

I have been selling off collectibles for the last 3-5 years to maintain our life and have had to have the internal discussion too many times now of how much do I really want this !!!

Neil

Hello Neil,

Sorry to hear you won't be at the National as I would have liked to meet you finally. Hopefully, things will turn around for everyone soon and we'll all go have a beer.

As far as the OP's question, I really don't collect anything but unopened baseball packs these days. Don't have enough disposable money to afford to collect anything else.