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Originally Posted by jchcollins
I'm 42, so technically at the tail end of Gen X, but feel kind of in that boat. I missed out on 70's and early 80's shows when things were somewhat reasonable. By the time I got into old cards it was the early 90's, and while certainly cheaper than today - price trends were already outlined and generally on the rise. I never knew a "cheap" Mantle card, and the same can be said for many of his contemporaries. Things like Goudey and tobacco cards were rarely seen outside of shows when I was a kid, and of course there they were not in line with my budget as a teenager.
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I’m 43...I often say “I’m not a millennial, I’m a bicentennial” (not many laugh).
But I hear you...I feel like we were late to the game. And the money we spent on junk wax? Ugh!
My collection has gone through a number of transitions over the years, plus plenty of quite times of inactivity.
I don’t put a lot of “new money” into my collection. Of course, I don’t often spend more than $50 on a single card (and over $100 only a handful). My ‘76 and ‘77 projects are exceptions, but most of what I’ve been doing the last few years is selling off ungraded stuff and buying graded.
The “new money” I put in is mostly paying my eBay monthly fees and buying some stamps for shipping small lots. Other than that I *try* to only buy out of sales.
So, for 30+ years of collecting, I don’t have a super collection to show off, but it’s been a lot of fun and I’m constantly consolidating and getting more and more cool stuff.
01-04-2020, 01:39 PM
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