NYT: 20 Million Cards: A Sports Memorabilia Gold Mine Uncovered in Virginia

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Trying not to be judgemental here, but what would possess someone to just keep filling shelf after shelf with duplicates, or unopened boxes of stuff that he knows will never have much value, etc.

To me it's not about the "value". That's not the question in my mind. I don't understand why someone would buy cards and then leave them unopened/untouched. It takes organizational effort to turn a hoard of cards into a collection. And if he didn't like cards enough to bother to put some effort into organizing them, what possessed him to buy them in the first place?

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

To me it's not about the "value". That's not the question in my mind. I don't understand why someone would buy cards and then leave them unopened/untouched. It takes organizational effort to turn a hoard of cards into a collection. And if he didn't like cards enough to bother to put some effort into organizing them, what possessed him to buy them in the first place?

Seems to me we're asking the same question: why?