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We all know (or most of us do) that you\'re probably better off buying stocks as an investment BUT this is a labor of love. So we buy what we love but what is the story behind our collecting?<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTell me yours!</div>\r\n			\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>Definitely a labor of love and a sacrifice for smarter alternatives.  I\'m an ecard guy so a different world from the Tcard guys, an image collector/type collector with centering OCD so I buy what appeals to me on a visceral level, I also try to keep my collection to 500 cards +/- to avoid my brain getting confused about my collecting goals.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI\'ve always thought an ultimate Ecard collection would include a Master set, color run, back run, and a high grade Ecard set. 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I try to collect things that are connected to my earlier days.</div>\r\n			\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; ">\r\n	<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Quote:</div>\r\n	<table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td class="alt2" style="border:1px inset">\r\n			\r\n				<div>\r\n					Originally Posted by <strong>bmattioli</strong>\r\n					<a href="showthread.php?p=2504077#post2504077" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="images/buttons/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="View Post" /></a>\r\n				</div>\r\n				<div style="font-style:italic">I have collected all my life. Like many others here you are born to collect..</div>\r\n			\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; ">\r\n	<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Quote:</div>\r\n	<table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td class="alt2" style="border:1px inset">\r\n			\r\n				<div>\r\n					Originally Posted by <strong>JollyElm</strong>\r\n					<a href="showthread.php?p=2504310#post2504310" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="images/buttons/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="View Post" /></a>\r\n				</div>\r\n				<div style="font-style:italic">My venture into the <b>collecting world</b> started with the first long, fun walk through the woods and neighborhoods <i>(in the days when moms actually allowed their children to go off on their own)</i> to finally reach the <b>stationery store</b> and buy a pack of cards with my <b>older brothers</b>, and has always stayed interwoven in my life, come what may.<br />\n<br />\nI see the pursuit as a <b>cardboard time machine</b>, whether that involves marveling at cards that came out <b>before we were born</b> <i>(and sending you off to read about those times and players)</i> or remembering your <b>childhood baseball card escapades</b> with your friends.... So, yeah, nostalgia.</div>\r\n			\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>Yes, that\'s precisely it. Nostalgia is what prompted me back down the collecting rabbit hole because I have the collecting(hoarding?) gene.<br />\n<br />\nI marveled at the cards that the older kids had in the schoolyard when I started first grade. These included Topps <i>Flags of the World</i>, <i>TV Westerns</i> and <i>Zorro</i>:<br />\n<br />\n<img src="https://hosting.photobucket.com/85c51e3d-3d26-43cb-b0e1-701c992d60b1/671b7132-33f4-46a1-ac8d-8753120c0203.png" border="0" alt="" /><br />\n<br />\n<img src="https://hosting.photobucket.com/85c51e3d-3d26-43cb-b0e1-701c992d60b1/011d8494-b1f9-4206-ace6-3e98b55fd2ae.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />\n<br />\n<img src="https://hosting.photobucket.com/85c51e3d-3d26-43cb-b0e1-701c992d60b1/de399f77-18d3-460b-ab7e-a9eb872b8f9a.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />\n<br />\nI was awe struck by the 1958-59 Topps <i>Hockey</i> cards and 1959 <i>Baseball</i> cards when they hit the playground. By that summer I had the financial wherewithal to start buying and collecting the 1959 <i>CFL</i> cards myself. I then dabbled in each year\'s <i>Hockey</i>, <i>Baseball</i> and <i>CFL</i> cards together with certain non-sports sets such as <i>Sports Cars</i>, <i>Spook Theatre</i> and <i>Civil War News</i>. Then in the summer of 1963 a buddy and I went big time into amassing every single card we could get our hands upon and gathered up about 6500 different ones. But I then turned over my half of my collection to my buddy when I went off to boarding school in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1965. He then turned the collection over to the snot nosed kid across the street a few months later.<br />\n<br />\nBut the memory of those cards never left me. By 1969-70 I was looking back and wishing I still had the 1959 and 1960 <i>CFL</i> cards I\'d had as a kid. And in 1979 as a young man with a good job I decided to re-amass the treasures - e.g. cards, comics, model kits - of my formative years.<br />\n<br />\nIt\'s snowballed from there. I have far more of all these items now than I ever imagined having as a kid. But possessing them has always brought me delight, and I\'ve now reached the stage in my life where they bring me the comfort I envisaged they would one day (once I\'m too old and grey to be the young punk hot rodder I was as a young man).<br />\n<br />\nBut I\'m actually unhappy when I\'ve not been able to add to my various collections for a year or two. Therefore I have of course frequently questioned my motivation. Sure they\'re a mental snapshot that provides me with a very real link to my younger days, but why am I so resistant to just letting go of bygone days? Am I actually addicted to collecting? Am I any less pathetic than an alcoholic or a drug addict? Well, at least this collecting business neither destroys my health nor kills brain cells. (Participating in various collectible forums actually helps me improve my writing skills!) 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I was not into collecting them. I remember we would put them on our bicycle wheels in the spokes with a clothespin. But mostly I played a game of pitch, it was like pitching pennies. You know the gambling game in which pennies are tossed against a wall, the winner being the person whose penny lands closest to the wall or topped the other penny. Pitching baseball cards was the same game.<br />\n<br />\nWhile I did not collect baseball cards I did collect  baseball photos. When I got married in 1976 my wife had some baseball photos she had discovered in 1968 many from the 1940s. This is the reason I started collecting cards.<br />\n<br />\nYou see I started looking into the photos we had collected. Going to baseball card shows to try and find more on the photos I had. It was in the late 1970s when I started going to card shows. At this one show I showed some of the photos to some old-timers. 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We all know (or most of us do) that you\'re probably better off buying stocks as an investment BUT this is a labor of love. So we buy what we love but what is the story behind our collecting?<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTell me yours!</div>\r\n			\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>I love baseball. My older brother collected baseball cards. I started buying cards in 1965 and started collecting in 1967. I have never stopped. I have had a few pauses, but I have always treaured my collection, whether cards were worth pennies in the 70s or hundreds or thousands of dollars now. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nAlso, I have definitely been better off buying cards than stocks. 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Although I have sold off everything several times, I\'ve never stopped collecting.</li>\n<li>I thoroughly enjoy the history of baseball.  Cards connect me more directly with that history.</li>\n<li>The different card designs offer a glimpse into America during the time when they were produced.</li>\n<li>Quite simply...for the love of the game.</li>\n</ol>\r\n		</div>\r\n		<!-' + '- / message -' + '->\r\n\r\n		\r\n\r\n		\r\n		\r\n\r\n		\r\n		<!-' + '- sig -' + '->\r\n			<div>\r\n				__________________<br />\r\n				Eric Perry<br />\r\n<br />\r\nCurrently collecting:<br />\r\nT206 (136/524)<br />\r\n1956 Topps Baseball (198/342)<br />\r\n<br />\r\n&quot;You can observe a lot by just watching.&quot;<br />\r\n- Yogi Berra\r\n			</div>\r\n		<!-' + '- / sig -' + '->\r\n		\r\n\r\n		\r\n\r\n		\r\n		<!-' + '- edit note -' + '->\r\n			<div class="smallfont">\r\n				<hr size="1" style="color:#D1D1E1; background-color:#D1D1E1" />\r\n				<em>\r\n					\r\n						Last edited by Eric72; 03-18-2025 at <span class="time">07:03 PM</span>.\r\n					\r\n					\r\n				</em>\r\n			</div>\r\n		<!-' + '- / edit note -' + '->\r\n		\r\n\r\n		<div style="margin-top: 10px" align="right">\r\n			<!-' + '- controls -' + '->\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n				<a href="newreply.php?do=newreply&amp;p=2504081" rel="nofollow"><img src="images/buttons/quote.gif" alt="Reply With Quote" border="0" /></a>\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n				\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			<!-' + '- / controls -' + '->\r\n		</div>\r\n\r\n	<!-' + '- message, attachments, sig -' + '->\r\n\r\n	</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n\r\n<!-' + '- post 2504081 popup menu -' + '->\r\n<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="postmenu_2504081_menu" style="display:none;">\r\n	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td class="thead">Eric72</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n	\r\n		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="member.php?u=203647">View Public Profile</a></td></tr>\r\n	\r\n	\r\n		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="private.php?do=newpm&amp;u=203647" rel="nofollow">Send a private message to Eric72</a></td></tr>\r\n	\r\n	\r\n	\r\n	\r\n		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="search.php?do=finduser&amp;u=203647" rel="nofollow">Find all posts by Eric72</a></td></tr>\r\n	\r\n	\r\n	\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>\r\n<!-' + '- / post 2504081 popup menu -' + '->\r\n\r\n\r\n	</div>\r\n	\r\n		</div>\r\n	</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<!-' + '- / close content container -' + '->\r\n\r\n<!-' + '- / post #2504081 -' + '->';
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It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But collecting has marked the time. These items, they are a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.&#8221; <br />\n<br />\nPersonally, I find that modern life is so frantic, so immediate, so consuming, and so impermanent that I long for something more. I want to reach that constant that baseball represented to Terence Mann (and yes, I am aware that he is a fictional character, but don&#8217;t let the facts obscure the point).<br />\n<br />\nThe mere fact that these things we collect are tangible sets us apart from the non-collectors. My wife often asks me why I want to keep a card when I could sell it for a profit. The non-collectors like her will never get the appeal these things have for us collectors; it is almost mystical. These things were made with great ingenuity and effort and care. They were meant to be enjoyed in the physical world. 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The non-collectors like her will never get the appeal these things have for us collectors; it is almost mystical.</div>\r\n			\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>You\'ve mentioned your wife\'s complete disinterest in your collections a number of times. What does she like then? Anything? Just spending money? Have you ever asked her whether you should channel your compulsiveness into being an alcoholic or drug addict instead? Would she be happier then if you had these more conventional adult pursuits? <img src="forum/images/smilies/confused.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Confused" class="inlineimg" /><br />\n<br />\n<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; ">\r\n	<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Quote:</div>\r\n	<table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td class="alt2" style="border:1px inset">\r\n			\r\n				<div>\r\n					Originally Posted by <strong>Exhibitman</strong>\r\n					<a href="showthread.php?p=2504416#post2504416" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="images/buttons/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="View Post" /></a>\r\n				</div>\r\n				<div style="font-style:italic">Pondering these questions is one of the things that gives me respect and, yes, love for old cardboard. I often think about the journey that items have taken. To me, it feels reassuring. Even though someone&#8217;s children or grandchildren just did not care about and would just as soon throw away the items, there are strangers who do care about these artifacts and will preserve them. That\'s what I find redeeming about the process: we collectors are the Memory Alpha for these people, both the subjects of the items and the people who cared for the items, just as other collectors will be for us after we are gone. Little Howie McCormick is long gone but his back-stamped T206 collection lives on through the collectors who have his old cards and actively trade and discuss them on card chat boards.</div>\r\n			\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>Good point! 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pd[2504793] = '<!-' + '- post #2504793 -' + '->\r\n\r\n	<!-' + '- open content container -' + '->\r\n\r\n<div align="center">\r\n	<div class="page" style="width:100%; text-align:left">\r\n		<div style="padding:0px 25px 0px 25px" align="left">\r\n\r\n	<div id="edit2504793" style="padding:0px 0px 6px 0px">\r\n	<!-' + '- this is not the last post shown on the page -' + '->\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<table class="tborder" id="post2504793" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">\r\n<tr>\r\n	<td class="thead" >\r\n		<div class="normal" style="float:right">\r\n			&nbsp;\r\n			#<a href="showpost.php?p=2504793&amp;postcount=22" target="new" rel="nofollow" id="postcount2504793" name="22"><strong>22</strong></a> &nbsp;\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			\r\n		</div>\r\n\r\n		<div class="normal">\r\n			<!-' + '- status icon and date -' + '->\r\n			<a name="post2504793"><img class="inlineimg" src="images/statusicon/post_old.gif" alt="Old" border="0" /></a>\r\n			\r\n				03-22-2025, 05:55 AM\r\n			\r\n			\r\n			<!-' + '- / status icon and date -' + '->\r\n		</div>\r\n	</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n	<td class="alt2" style="padding:0px">\r\n		<!-' + '- user info -' + '->\r\n		<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="6" border="0" width="100%">\r\n		<tr>\r\n			<td class="alt2"><a href="member.php?u=945"><img src="image.php?u=945&amp;dateline=1655857168"   alt="refz\'s Avatar" border="0" /></a></td>\r\n			<td nowrap="nowrap">\r\n\r\n				<div id="postmenu_2504793">\r\n					\r\n					<a class="bigusername" href="member.php?u=945">refz</a>\r\n					<img class="inlineimg" src="images/statusicon/user_offline.gif" alt="refz is offline" border="0" />\r\n\r\n\r\n					<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("postmenu_2504793", true); <\/scr' + 'ipt>\r\n					\r\n				</div>\r\nDanny Gr|mes\r\n<div class="smallfont">\r\n				Member\r\n</div>\r\n				\r\n				\r\n\r\n			</td>\r\n			<td width="100%">&nbsp;</td>\r\n			<td valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">\r\n\r\n				<div class="smallfont">\r\n					<div>Join Date: May 2009</div>\r\n					<div>Location: Waterbury, Conn.</div>\r\n					\r\n					<div>\r\n						Posts: 734\r\n					</div>\r\n					\r\n					\r\n					\r\n					\r\n					<div>    </div>\r\n				</div>\r\n\r\n			</td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n		</table>\r\n		<!-' + '- / user info -' + '->\r\n	</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n	\r\n	<td class="alt1" id="td_post_2504793">\r\n		\r\n	<!-' + '- message, attachments, sig -' + '->\r\n\r\n		\r\n\r\n		\r\n			<!-' + '- icon and title -' + '->\r\n			<div class="smallfont">\r\n				<img class="inlineimg" src="forum/images/icons/icon1.gif" alt="Default" border="0" />\r\n				\r\n			</div>\r\n			<hr size="1" style="color:#D1D1E1; background-color:#D1D1E1" />\r\n			<!-' + '- / icon and title -' + '->\r\n		\r\n\r\n		<!-' + '- message -' + '->\r\n		<div id="post_message_2504793">\r\n			\r\n			I collect for many reasons, first and foremost the love of the game! 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