This hobby is addicting...!!!

g_vezina_c55 · #1 05-02-2012, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by zljones

As an adult I had three hobbies this being my third. In 2008 I started collecting M.A.S.K action figures. These were toys I was crazy over in the 80s. Some of you in your 30s probably remember these. Anyway I collected for a few months then got them all and spent $600 total. It was fun for a second but when I was done I felt like I made a mistake. I sold them off on ebay as an entire collection in auction and it sold for $150 (this was the very first thing I ever sold on ebay, lesson learned about selling everything at once).

I moved on to an interesting hobby collecting U.S. Navy rating badges (rank patches worn by sailers). I had ones from WWII, WWI and 19th century. Some of them were a lot of money. The patches were fascinating and fun to collect but too rare and frustrating. You would have a risk of never seeing an item again and had to have money ready at all times.

During down time collecting the rate badges I browsed my old hobby from when I was a kid, and that was cards. I fell back in love with collecting cards and this time I was collecting what I always wanted to collect as a kid, vintage cards. I sold all my patches and made a few grand on ebay then I bought a 1952 Topps Eddie Mathews, 1939 Playball Ted Williams, 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #53, and a 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle with the money I made. I have no regrets.

i remember MASK, when i was kid i listen this tv show and love it !!!! a good memories of this tv show !! but i never owned any toy of MASK in my childhood.

7nohitter · #2 05-02-2012, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by g_vezina_c55

i remember MASK, when i was kid i listen this tv show and love it !!!! a good memories of this tv show !! but i never owned any toy of MASK in my childhood.

Ditto

Never left card collecting...WISH I had the liquid income of some of the collectors on this site...seriously, some major $$ being thrown around for cardboard

zljones · #3 05-02-2012, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by g_vezina_c55

i remember MASK, when i was kid i listen this tv show and love it !!!! a good memories of this tv show !! but i never owned any toy of MASK in my childhood.

Some other crazyiness I actually bought a box set of every single M.A.S.K episode ever aired on TV when I was collecting. I watched them all through before I sold it, man did it bring back some memories.

I think those were one of the coolest toys of the 80s.

g_vezina_c55 · #4 05-02-2012, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by zljones

Some other crazyiness I actually bought a box set of every single M.A.S.K episode ever aired on TV when I was collecting. I watched them all through before I sold it, man did it bring back some memories.

I think those were one of the coolest toys of the 80s.

if my memories is good i think my favorite car in this show when i was child is the Truck.. i don t know the word in english... for a tow truck.. like a petterbilt..... and i think it was red in the tv show...

zljones · #5 05-02-2012, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by g_vezina_c55

if my memories is good i think my favorite car in this show when i was child is the Truck.. i don t know the word in english... for a tow truck.. like a petterbilt..... and i think it was red in the tv show...

That would be Matt Trakker's truck. He was the main good guy with the blonde hair. My favorite was Condor the guy in all yellow with the green helicopter. I also loved the bad guys too they had cool outfits and helmets.

Touch'EmAll · #6 05-02-2012, 05:14 PM

Maybe I should go to "Collectors Annonymous" as I waste money on:

Coins - just joined PCGS for coin submittal of my Buffalo nickels.

Star Wars stuff - just had to have that Darth Maul rotating figure.

Fishing rods/reels/lures/flies - how many reels can a dude fish with - fly reels,spinning reels, and too many rods for my good size rod rack.

Rocks, fossils and crystals - here we go again, lots of cool stuff I have.

American Indian old pottery - mostly Acoma Indian, older with famous name signatures.

Somebody help me please!

frankh8147 · #7 05-02-2012, 05:16 PM

I must have been about ten when Pokemon cards got popular. I remember trading all my baseball and football cards for popular Pokemon cards. It sounds a disaster story but actually it wasn't bad; at the time I was collecting the 'next young stars' like Keyshawn Johnson, Ruben Rivera, and Hideki Irabu. About a year or two later, I got bored with Pokemon cards and traded them in for the next young stars...Tim Couch, Pat Burrell, and the great Ron Dayne!! Oh well, i took a two year detour to end up with the nothing i started with, but at least I learned that I could never be a talent scout!

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