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Joeyd011
Posts: 66
Joined: Apr 2014
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:49 PM | |
....I'm not going to lie though, when I got back into collecting, the junk wax was some of the first cards I purchased. Particularly singles of rookie cards that I didn't have back in the day.
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:57 PM | |
I'm probably going to throw about 5000 cards away real soon myself. Not because they're necessarily junk as in junk era, but rather because they are stuck together like bricks and cluttering up my card room. It's hard telling exactly what all is represented in there. Just not worth the space they are taking up. In other words, JUNK. I will feel no remorse. There could be some glorious Topps Baseball in there, for all I know.
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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jimetal7212
Posts: 4,839
Joined: Dec 2016
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 4:01 PM | |
Same thing I did. I finally got back into the game this year and the first things I picked up were factory sets from those years. To be very specific, the first 2 were the '91 and '92 Score factory sets; you know the ones that looked like a brick!!! Picked up some wax too just so I could relive my youth a little.
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RoundtheDiamond87
Posts: 808
Joined: Oct 2015
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 4:10 PM | |
Thank you for your contribution. I'm sure you've probably got some of my favorite 2001 Topps cards in that stack of stuck cards.
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obxyankeefan
Posts: 756
Joined: Aug 2017
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 4:52 PM | |
The only card I can remember throwing away was a 1999 Mike Piazza insert. It was some kind of peel the front of the card and it had been in a box for so long that when I got it and peeled it, it took the front of the card with it.
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:01 PM | |
That's basically what happens with a lot of the cards I'm talking about, when I try to separate them. Ten years in a storage unit that, unbeknownst to my parents, had a leaky roof.
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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rmpaq5
Posts: 2,025
Joined: Nov 2014
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Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:26 PM | |
Instead of throwing away the multiple, multiple, duplicates of this era I come into possession of, I simply put them in a giant bin, and when that bin is full I bring it to the school I teach at and let the kids go nuts picking out stacks. Created a few collectors this way, of course a parent or two have asked me why they now have these in their basement instead of mine .
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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Friday, November 17, 2017 11:07 PM | |
Do kids really care about Luis Aquino and Rich Monteleone?
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,905
Joined: Dec 2014
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Friday, November 17, 2017 11:34 PM | |
Only if they played for their team! Kids really just want to own stuff though. Even the cheapest cards on the planet could still get a child interested in collecting though! We should ALL want to get the current youngest generation interested in cards. The hobby can't survive if no one is going to buy them. Plus, who can we pass our cards on to in the end if no one cares?
The "Junk Era" is when many of us on here started collecting and we still treasure our collections, including the cards from that era. I really feel that after all of this time of Vintage only being pre-1980 and Modern Era being everything since, there should be another tier now. "Modern Era" really should be 2000 and newer now and everything from 1980-99 should be called "post-vintage". I don't feel like the cards from the 1980's should be called vintage cards yet, but they certainly aren't modern-era cards anymore. So much has changed in the last 30+ years of card manufacturing/collecting that that specific 20-year period deserves to be separated from the modern and the vintage. Pre-1970 cards were considered vintage when I was a kid and then pre-80 when I was a teenager, but nothing has changed in that respect since then in the early 1990's.
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