Friends & family's attitude towards your collecting?
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Friends & family's attitude towards your collecting?
For me, any mention of my collecting of vintage baseball cards to friends and family usually elicits one of three responses:
1. Complete indifference![Friends & family's attitude towards your collecting? Bored](https://2img.net/h/www.abestweb.com/smilies/bored.gif)
2. Eyeroll
3. "How much are they worth?"![Friends & family's attitude towards your collecting? 1](https://2img.net/h/bestsmileys.com/money/1.gif)
How 'bout you?
1. Complete indifference
![Friends & family's attitude towards your collecting? Bored](https://2img.net/h/www.abestweb.com/smilies/bored.gif)
2. Eyeroll
![Rolling Eyes](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif)
3. "How much are they worth?"
![Friends & family's attitude towards your collecting? 1](https://2img.net/h/bestsmileys.com/money/1.gif)
How 'bout you?
My wife...
just wants to hear about the $ i make from selling. Then she makes plans on how to spend it.
Mark
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Mark
Square_Frame_Ramly- FC NCAA Bracket Champ
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5. It's just cardboard, how can it be worth so much??
(I hear it all the time)
Tony
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(I hear it all the time)
Tony
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3-2-count wrote:5. It's just cardboard, how can it be worth so much??![]()
(I hear it all the time)
I get that also tony. When I tell them it costs hudreds, they freak!
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-Randy
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Hi Randy -
It's good to have a group like this you can go to and find other people like ourselves who do understand, huh?![beer](/users/1413/17/23/61/smiles/136179.gif)
It's good to have a group like this you can go to and find other people like ourselves who do understand, huh?
![beer](/users/1413/17/23/61/smiles/136179.gif)
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6. They want to know what hot rookies you have and other modern players. When I tell them, not counting my cards from my childhood, I don't collect anything made after WW2. When I mention some values, the first response usually is, you should sell them all and buy a car, etc. I tell them no way. That would be like flushing money down the toilet. Most people I know collect something, they understand the collector mentality.
Now I just need to get my lazy butt motivated and list all the last of Indian Chief collection. I still have some stuff like a rare Ganaong Chocolates card of Geronimo and complete set of 1958 Fleer Indian cards made from a wax box that was opened back in 1996 and some cool turn of the century Rheinhard postcards of Red Cloud and other famous chiefs.
Jay
Now I just need to get my lazy butt motivated and list all the last of Indian Chief collection. I still have some stuff like a rare Ganaong Chocolates card of Geronimo and complete set of 1958 Fleer Indian cards made from a wax box that was opened back in 1996 and some cool turn of the century Rheinhard postcards of Red Cloud and other famous chiefs.
Jay
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3-2-count wrote:Hi Randy -
It's good to have a group like this you can go to and find other people like ourselves who do understand, huh?
I agree, there is only one local card shop in my town (which I just got a card from). Other than the owner, there is nobody else to talk cards with. That is why I joined (and to play fantasy baseball!
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arandy- MVP
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Mostly ok with it
My wife is mostly ok with it. Sometime if I buy an expensive card she will complain a bit. I try to tell her its an investment
. She relpies with a " yeah but its not an investment if you never sell it!"
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My wife tolerates it, as long as I spend my own money. Nobody in my family or friends even knows who Willie Keeler is. So, I just don't bother to show them my cards or talk about it much.
While were on the subject of family. I have a 42 yr old little brother and I tried to get him interested in the hobby at least 50's cards, he's a baseball fan and is old enough to remember atleast the 60's/70's players. I even gave him some 50's hofers but he's buying those damn Numbered Jersey cards and such. I try to give him hints about the number gimmicks and hype trying not to make him mad. I hate to see him spending his money on that new stuff.
While were on the subject of family. I have a 42 yr old little brother and I tried to get him interested in the hobby at least 50's cards, he's a baseball fan and is old enough to remember atleast the 60's/70's players. I even gave him some 50's hofers but he's buying those damn Numbered Jersey cards and such. I try to give him hints about the number gimmicks and hype trying not to make him mad. I hate to see him spending his money on that new stuff.
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#3 since my cousin is this guy on eBay - http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmnmiracle2004
I don't really understand the new stuff that he sells, but last week he sold a Tiger Woods card for $20,000 in a private sale. I think that's crazy.
My family is pretty tolerant of my collecting after seeing
some of the money these little pieces of cardboard can be worth.
I don't really understand the new stuff that he sells, but last week he sold a Tiger Woods card for $20,000 in a private sale. I think that's crazy.
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My family is pretty tolerant of my collecting after seeing
some of the money these little pieces of cardboard can be worth.
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any of you ever ask your wife for their opinion on a card? I have...my wife's gotten pretty good at grading cards. She's a bit tougher than PSA and SGC.
cmoking- All Star
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Almost. My wife's a fairly lenient grader. I think she may moonlight at PSA.cmoking wrote:any of you ever ask your wife for their opinion on a card? I have...my wife's gotten pretty good at grading cards. She's a bit tougher than PSA and SGC.
PeteBrowningFan- Major Leaguer
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My wife is very understanding about my passion for this hobby. She's the only person that knows how much I love these old cards. If we had the money, she would buy me cards all the time to make me happy. I love her. ![Very Happy](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_biggrin.png)
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Most of my family and friends are indifferent towards it so I rarely talk about it with them. My wife doesn't care as long as I spend money that I've made in the hobby on buying - I usually show her anything new that I get, but she may spend about 2 seconds looking at it and she always says the same thing - "Neat". My youngest brother doesn't collect it, but he knows what is what and he finds a lot of memorabilia for me at auctions and sales. I have no one locally that I can talk about prewar baseball - not even my card shop guy (who has been a friend since the early 1980s when we used to hang out in the only card shop in town - some guys basement)...he may have the occasional T206, but other than that he doesn't really carry anything older than the 1940-50s Topps/Bowman and he has no real knowledge of the old stuff.
I can only dream that my son who is 7 now will take an interest in the prewar stuff in the coming years.
I can only dream that my son who is 7 now will take an interest in the prewar stuff in the coming years.
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