I often wonder.....

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by Case12

Sorta like getting a toy truck for birthday and never playing with it in the sandbox. Or never using the Red Ryder BB gun you get for Christmas. Cards were fun, not pristine collectibles. Rubber bands held them together. (plus some of us bought packs only to get yummy gum strips....yuck). I did have enough excitement for a Bart Starr not to put it on my bicycle - of course he was on the wall of my bedroom using a thumb tack....who knew back then :-)

Exactly...Amen!! "Cards were fun, not pristine collectibles". Perfect!!

There are guys here who were collecting back in the 50's. I myself started in earnest in 1968. I, nor anybody else I knew, never gave a thought to condition (at least not in a neurotic sense) or value when we were buying packs.

There's a YouTube channel that I enjoy by a younger collector, who in response to a comment told me that when he was collecting in the 80's they loved the cards too, but they also thought in terms of the potential value of the card. I'm glad that when I was collecting that wasn't an aspect of things.