OT. Wives

[darkhorse9]

[MyGuyTy]

Originally Posted by darkhorse9

Classic......so true.

[Fred]

Hahahahahahaha.... now that was good!

[Kawika]

My wife can pronounce Lajoie correctly.

[wolf441]

While my wife has no real interest in my collection, her dad designed the World Series trophy (he worked for Balfour before he passed away in 1976) as well as several other baseball awards and the Chrysler Eagle, so she is a keeper!!

[unamuzd1]

My wife collects 1940 Playballs. So you could say she tolerates my occasional purchase.

[t206blogcom]

My wife is the one who encouraged me to get back into collecting and to put together my T206 set. She would get a little pissy at times when the mailbox was stuffed with bubble mailers, but overall, she's been great with my collecting.

She's come to a couple of card shows and got a kick out of seeing some of the real old stuff. She even chatted it up with Dan McKee once at a show.

For the past two years, she's bought me season tickets to the Nationals - one seat for me, one seat for her. We have a good time going to the games even if she isn't into baseball all that much. This past Christmas, she also got me an autographed, game-used Bryce Harper bat to go along with the season tickets. How do you beat that?

[jg8422]

Originally Posted by t206blogcom

My wife is the one who encouraged me to get back into collecting and to put together my T206 set. She would get a little pissy at times when the mailbox was stuffed with bubble mailers, but overall, she's been great with my collecting.

She's come to a couple of card shows and got a kick out of seeing some of the real old stuff. She even chatted it up with Dan McKee once at a show.

For the past two years, she's bought me season tickets to the Nationals - one seat for me, one seat for her. We have a good time going to the games even if she isn't into baseball all that much. This past Christmas, she also got me an autographed, game-used Bryce Harper bat to go along with the season tickets. How do you beat that?

Sounds like a keeper!

[hshrimps]

My wife bidded on a T3 that I listed on eBay. She has no clue my ebay id was but I know she tried to win that for me as my b-day present.

[hshrimps]

I like that Joe Jackson card but how could the card stays intact with the bottom left portion of the card so damaged up. Amazing.

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by t206blogcom

My wife is the one who encouraged me to get back into collecting and to put together my T206 set. She would get a little pissy at times when the mailbox was stuffed with bubble mailers, but overall, she's been great with my collecting.

She's come to a couple of card shows and got a kick out of seeing some of the real old stuff. She even chatted it up with Dan McKee once at a show.

For the past two years, she's bought me season tickets to the Nationals - one seat for me, one seat for her. We have a good time going to the games even if she isn't into baseball all that much. This past Christmas, she also got me an autographed, game-used Bryce Harper bat to go along with the season tickets. How do you beat that?

Hi Jason,
I'm going to show your post to my wife, who is also a Nationals fan, and gently suggest that she is a slacker in comparison to your wife! My wife likes to go to Florida for a couple of weeks each winter to get away from the cold, and she always entices me by suggesting we go to a couple of spring-training games. This year, we saw the Nats' opening-game win over the Mets and their win over the Marlins in their third game. My wife has no interest in my card collecting, but she fully accepts that it's this "affliction" that keeps me going in my retirement years.
Best,
Val

[kailes2872]

After I took the boys to Cooperstown in the fall of 2011, my wife encouraged me to re-enter the hobby when she saw my eyes light up as I showed her the pictures of the cards in the hall. A few years and several thousand dollars later, she tells me that I can slow down at any time. She is a good sport. She shows her irritation at bonus time when she knows that I am going to drop 5-10k. However, last year I bought her a 1200 purse in a preemptive strike and she had no issues.

Her biggest frustration happened when I was building a 67 set card by card. There would be 3-6 bubble mailers coming daily and since I travel a lot for work, she would have to sign for a lot if the higher dollar ones - followed by me calling her that evening to ask her what came so I could update my list.

This year, I came home from a trip on my birthday and a bubble mailer had come that day. As she and the kids sang happy birthday she handed me the package and then asked me to open it so she could see what she bought me (59 Gibson).

[t206blogcom]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Hi Jason,
I'm going to show your post to my wife, who is also a Nationals fan, and gently suggest that she is a slacker in comparison to your wife! My wife likes to go to Florida for a couple of weeks each winter to get away from the cold, and she always entices me by suggesting we go to a couple of spring-training games. This year, we saw the Nats' opening-game win over the Mets and their win over the Marlins in their third game. My wife has no interest in my card collecting, but she fully accepts that it's this "affliction" that keeps me going in my retirement years.
Best,
Val

Hey Val! Hopefully you won't be sleeping on the couch tonight. I was going to go to FL for some Nats pre-season games, but my brother and his wife had their first child, so I couldn't make it this year. Hope you're doing well and perhaps I'll run into you next month in Chantilly.

Jason