Advice please ... what do I do with ....

[ullmandds]

I wish I had your problem! I'd love to have all of those cards back from my youth...I'd think it'd be lots of fun thumbing through those!

[Peter_Spaeth]

It sounds like collectively there might be some reasonable value there, so perhaps with a little work you could auction groups of the cards off and donate the proceeds?

[glchen]

I think some auction houses like Huggins and Scott, Hunt, or Mears *might* be able to take them and sell them for you. The drawback would be the cost of shipping the cards to them. Or you could slowly sell them on ebay. There's still a market for some of these cards. For example, a 2001 Topps Factory Set that I was watching today sold for ~$40.

[vintagecpa]

I sold mine for $5-10 per 4000 card box at a garage sale about 12 years ago. Gave the kids on the block something to look at for an afternoon. I had about 80,000 worthless cards at the time. I picked out the Ripken rookies and other cards with some value, but left most everything else.

[deadballera]

A few years back...I donated thousands of cards to a children's hospital. They were very happy with the donation and that the kids would love them.


If they didn't keep them, I am sure they would sell them as a fundraiser.

Either way....they go to a good cause.

[36GoudeyMan]

I think the Arie Foundation (associated with New York University Medical Center in New York City) has been gratefully accepting donations of cards for years (and comics and other stuff like that). I don't know how many 3,000 and 5,000 count boxes I've sent up there over the last 10 years, but its tons. Their website used to have pictures of kids with the cards, and I even recognized some of mine among them, but that version of the website is gone, I think. They'd also received higher dollar value cards over the years,which they used to offer up at benefit sales.


http://www.ariefoundation.com/

[Exhibitman]

I'd pull and keep the cards I had when I was a kid that meant something to me and give away the rest of them. You can put those into an album and use it to remind yourself of simpler times, something that is priceless. I wish I had more of the cards I got as a kid. I have some but got rid of the vast majority when I was in college/grad school. The few I have mean a lot to me.