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Post by fisherboy7 Sat May 03, 2008 3:14 pm

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

2. Eyeroll Rolling Eyes

3. "How much are they worth?" Friends & family's attitude towards your collecting? 1


How 'bout you?
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Post by yawie99 Sat May 03, 2008 3:58 pm

4. You are so gay.
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Post by Square_Frame_Ramly Sat May 03, 2008 4:06 pm

just wants to hear about the $ i make from selling. Then she makes plans on how to spend it. insane


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Post by 3-2-count Sat May 03, 2008 4:18 pm

5. It's just cardboard, how can it be worth so much?? scratch
(I hear it all the time)

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Post by arandy Sat May 03, 2008 4:21 pm

3-2-count wrote:5. It's just cardboard, how can it be worth so much?? scratch
(I hear it all the time)

I get that also tony. When I tell them it costs hudreds, they freak! No

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Post by 3-2-count Sat May 03, 2008 5:25 pm

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
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Post by sabrjay Sat May 03, 2008 6:15 pm

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.

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Post by arandy Sat May 03, 2008 9:23 pm

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? beer

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! bananarama )
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Post by lentel Tue May 13, 2008 4:16 am

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 naughty . She relpies with a " yeah but its not an investment if you never sell it!"
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Post by TheBig6 Tue May 13, 2008 5:28 am

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.
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Post by hanksta Tue May 13, 2008 1:58 pm

#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. insane



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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Post by cmoking Tue May 13, 2008 3:47 pm

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.

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Post by PeteBrowningFan Tue May 13, 2008 10:54 pm

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.
Almost. My wife's a fairly lenient grader. I think she may moonlight at PSA.

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Post by CobbSpikedMe Wed May 14, 2008 4:24 am

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
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Post by slidekellyslide Wed May 14, 2008 8:18 pm

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.
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