Moms and Cards

isiahfan · #1 09-12-2022, 11:19 PM

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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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 09-13-2022, 06:38 AM

Mom saved mine in a shoe box.

pete zouras · #5 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 · #6 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.

John1941 · #7 09-13-2022, 11:20 PM

I'm a little young for this thread...

My grandma did not throw out my dad's cards, God bless her. My mom tolerates and partly understands my collecting - my dad's more supportive.

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