What to do with 80's and 90's cards?

Bestdj777 · #1 01-04-2015, 05:23 PM

I still have my childhood collection, which fortunately was not that large. I love going through my old binder and looking at the cards I "carefully" placed in there as a kid. I don't have any plans to get rid of them as it brings back memories every time I go through them

My brother just picked up about 50,000 80s/90s cards for me so that I could flip through them and relive some memories. For those, I really don't have any attachment. I will likely hold on to some of my favorite players and donate the rest, if someone will even take them. I'm assuming I would be able to find someone on Craigslist that would pick them up. Either way, I'm looking forward to going through "new" cards.

brewing · #2 01-04-2015, 05:56 PM

I have tossed most of the commons.

DHogan · #3 01-04-2015, 06:19 PM

I finished my Topps sets from 1986 to 1995 for the most part. I gave some to the Childrens Hospital (when they were still accepting them) in Boston. The rest of my cards from the late 80's (86-89), I threw away about 8,000 of them.

EvilKing00 · #4 01-04-2015, 06:47 PM

Im really a combo vote, i do still have alot, and i did toss some out cause i needed room and i did donate some.

Orioles1954 · #5 01-04-2015, 06:47 PM

Easy. Ship them to the auction house of your choice (on their dime) and auction them as a large lot.

PM770 · #6 01-05-2015, 01:54 PM

I have always just been a collector, so I never ended with huge hoards of "junk" era cards. Just a lot of dupes from breaking boxes and building sets.

I do still collect a recent release every year: Topps Heritage in Baseball, Topps in Football and O-Pee-Chee in hockey. In fact I'm looking for a 2014-15 O-Pee-Chee hockey base set right now.

I may be the only one here at Net54 doing that!

David W · #7 01-05-2015, 01:58 PM

I gave thousands away back about 20 years or so ago to kids in church groups, clubs, etc....

I still have a bunch of monster boxes, shoeboxes, etc.....

This summer I put 2 monster boxes (5-6000 cards) in our garage sale and got $20.

Hard to believe it could be done but someone bought them for his neighbor "Who collects cards and I know he'll think this is a good deal".

I wonder if the neighbors are still talking to each other.

iwantitiwinit · #8 01-04-2015, 06:52 PM

Had them up to 3 years ago. Had a dumpster in the driveway for remodeling, threw them all in, probably about 100,000 worthless cards. Had 5 unopened 1987 topps vendor cases in there, couldn't give em away or get anyone to buy them even for postage cost.

almostdone · #9 01-04-2015, 07:50 PM

I finally decided to do something with the closet full I had around 12 years ago. I was going to put them in a yard sale for $10 per 5000 ct box but I thought I would spend some time reliving the memories of popping all those packs first.

As it turned out 99% of what I had was organized trash but in looking through my doubles box from sets I had built I found 5 extra 1993 Upper Deck SP Derek Jeter rookies in nrmt shape! I used them in trade at a show for vintage cards I always wanted but never thought I would have.

That's really what started me into vintage cards and haven't bought a pack since.

Drew

Btw, I sold every one of those 5000 ct boxes at the yard sale too!

bnorth · #10 01-04-2015, 07:55 PM

Well looks like I am the lone fool that still collects 80's/90's junk.

View Poll Results: What have you done with your 80's,90's 2000's baseball, football, hockey cards?
Still have them but they stay stored away	119	53.13%
Still have them and actively collect	11	4.91%
Threw them out, kept a few star or rookie cards	32	14.29%
Donated or gave away	40	17.86%
Was smart enough to never buy	22	9.82%
Voters: 224. You may not vote on this poll

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