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Originally Posted by thekingofclout
That's a great story, Scott! Glad you guys had your priorities in order.
And Jay... that's incredible! How in the hell do you keep track of it all? ![Confused](forum/images/smilies/confused.gif) My head is still spinning.
So Jay... when I say that it's incredible how you can juggle all that what you collect... I really mean it! ![Smile](forum/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Thanks for the kind words. I've downsized quite a bit over the past 10 years. I've gone from about 45 1960-70s era 12" GI Joes down to 4, and sold off all but 1 box of my comics; keeping only the ones that still "mean" something to me. I've also downsized my baseball card collection quite a bit, selling off all my Topps/Fleer/Donruss sets from the 1960s-early 80s and keeping only Topps 1976-79 sets, and focusing on Padres team sets from 1973-75, 1980-84.
True story, hopefully appreciated by any book collectors. Any time I go into a Half Price book store, I go immediately to the "Nostalgia" section and look at the children's books. I scored a first edition Three Investigators #1 Secret of Terror Castle for $4 in pretty nice shape. Only the first editions had the sewn in text block and print error on page 67.
Pays to search, sometimes.