Moms and Cards

Vintagedeputy · #1 09-12-2022, 10:48 AM

My dad used to work for the Department of Sanitation at an incinerator where they burned the trash. He was constantly bringing home shoe boxes of cards for me!

steve B · #2 09-12-2022, 11:29 AM

Mom didn't throw mine away. She usually brought some home, and sent in for the occasional mail in offer. And picked up a couple Hostess ad signs for me.

When I was very young, she did make me throw out all the coke caps I'd gathered at a party. She didn't want me stuffing my pockets full of "dirty old bottlecaps"

insidethewrapper · #3 09-12-2022, 01:59 PM

Not my mother, but my brother burned them all. Why ? He didn't think I wanted them anymore when I was in High School. They were 1957-1962.
My dad had 1933 and 1934 Goudey's and when he returned from WW2 they were gone.

skil55voy · #4 09-12-2022, 03:53 PM

My cards (3000) were in a very large box that my mother kept for me. I took them with me to Maryland when I joined the Army.

cubman1941 · #5 09-12-2022, 03:57 PM

Well, contrary to most of the posts, my mother tossed all of my cards when I went into the Army in 1961. There was not a lot of them just a small box but they were all from 1952-1955. When I finally returned home I looked for them and she said she got rid of them as they were taking up space in the closet. That didn't bother me but what did bother me is she kept two footlockers full of college text books in case my brother (who went one semester) ever went back to school!! These weren't disposed of until my father passed in 1975.

fkm_bky · #6 09-12-2022, 04:29 PM

Mom never touched my cards, thankfully. She knew how much I enjoyed collecting them over the years. My Dad got into collecting too, so that helped. Now that they're nearly both 90 years old, and none of my other siblings collected, he had me load up all his cards from the 70's, 80's and 90's on a visit home before they moved into a retirement village. Mostly complete sets from 1973 to 1995 with a bunch of unopened 1989 to 1993 topps, score dunruss, fleer and upper deck. My wife asks what I'm going to do with all of them...I just shrug and say...keep em', I guess! [Insert wife eyeroll here]

This is a fun read!

Bill

isiahfan · #7 09-12-2022, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

My dad used to work for the Department of Sanitation at an incinerator where they burned the trash. He was constantly bringing home shoe boxes of cards for me!

That's effing great....what's the best thing you remember getting?...time frame?

Vintagedeputy · #8 09-13-2022, 06:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by isiahfan

That's effing great....what's the best thing you remember getting?...time frame?

The time frame was the late 1970s and early 1980s. He had a coworker who also collected so I�m sure that guy cherry picked the best cards and the vintage stuff. I would get shoe boxes of cards from the 70s, 1972 to 1979 approximately..

ClementeFanOh · #9 09-13-2022, 06:31 AM

My mom wasn't the villain either. She knew I loved cards and I did a decent
job of hiding them away. My brother- and then I- were the culprits. He knew
how much I loved the cards, and when we fought he would vow to take several
cards from my collection and put them in his, knowing I may not miss them.
My solution was to write my initials on the backs of the cards! That showed
him, didn't it!

I specifically recall this phenomenon with mid to late 70s
Topps football. Ah, what a wonderful memory(??)... Trent King

John V · #10 09-13-2022, 06:38 AM

Mom saved mine in a shoe box.

pete zouras · #11 09-13-2022, 08:15 AM

I was often the beneficiary of other kids thrown away collections by moms, trash picking them in the wee hours of the morning as I made my rounds. I was always thrilled when I found cards from before mycollecting days.

GrewUpWithJunkWax · #12 09-13-2022, 08:38 PM

My mom saved my stuff as well. For 23 years, my collection sat in the basement under a set of stairs, somehow avoiding water damage. I knew she had kept some stuff from my room and had stored it in boxes, but I wasn't really expecting much. So when I finally decided to retrieve it all, I was was surprised to find everything. It was fun to re-discover it, and that drew me back to the hobby.

My father-in-law was an unfortunate one. In the mid-50s, he would bat boy for the local college team, and with the 50 cents he'd earn each game, he'd promptly run off to buy baseball cards. He lost his collection when he was still a kid though. One random day, he couldn't find his cards. When he asked his parents, they told him he needed to stop wasting money on cards, and that they had trashed all of them.

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