Hello..I joined this forum back in 2005. A little history about me and card collecting.
I was an avid collector back in the early to mid 90's when I was in my early teens. I collected mostly baseball & football but do have some hockey and basketball as well.
My dad and I would go to sports card shows so we were able to collect a lot of vintage cards for little cost. Granted the cards are not in the best shape but it's nice to have some 50's and 60's of HOF's despite the value of them.
I'd say I probably have over 100k just sitting in my office. I've thought of trying to sell a lot of these but not sure it's really going to make me any money.
I have a lot of sets built but unfortunately they are of late 80's and early 90's and I know how the market was flooded with these.
So here I am stuck with many thousands of cards. Granted, I have always been a collector of Dodgers/Dolphins and have made custom binders full of these cards.
I'm looking for ideas on what I might be able to do to make use of all of these cards. Again, I have boxes of just common cards so sending them by postage really isn't profitable at all. I'm wondering what I could do with them? Looking for ideas on stuff I could develop into hobbies.
I also have thought of getting back into the hobby and focusing on primarily collecting Dodgers cards (maybe Dolphins?) and Topps Baseball. I probably have every set from 1986 through 1996 Topps. I've thought of trying to have the set of every year since I was born (early 80's). This could be something I could continue to do each year and look forward to it. Having a job now as opposed to a teenager makes it much easier to collect cards..even though the price has increased for smaller quantities of cards.
But if I decided to built sets of Topps for many years I almost think I'd want to put them in binders. Now, I know putting cards in the 9 slot page sleeves isn't the best for the condition but if I'm not going to sell these I question if it really matters? I think it might be cool to have a long line of binders noted for each year of Topps. I could even had some info from the season to go with each binder (season stats, records, awards etc..).
So again, I am looking for some feed back on my ideas and any other ideas that can some what make use of a collection that probably isn't easy to give away.
Thanks
I was an avid collector back in the early to mid 90's when I was in my early teens. I collected mostly baseball & football but do have some hockey and basketball as well.
My dad and I would go to sports card shows so we were able to collect a lot of vintage cards for little cost. Granted the cards are not in the best shape but it's nice to have some 50's and 60's of HOF's despite the value of them.
I'd say I probably have over 100k just sitting in my office. I've thought of trying to sell a lot of these but not sure it's really going to make me any money.
I have a lot of sets built but unfortunately they are of late 80's and early 90's and I know how the market was flooded with these.
So here I am stuck with many thousands of cards. Granted, I have always been a collector of Dodgers/Dolphins and have made custom binders full of these cards.
I'm looking for ideas on what I might be able to do to make use of all of these cards. Again, I have boxes of just common cards so sending them by postage really isn't profitable at all. I'm wondering what I could do with them? Looking for ideas on stuff I could develop into hobbies.
I also have thought of getting back into the hobby and focusing on primarily collecting Dodgers cards (maybe Dolphins?) and Topps Baseball. I probably have every set from 1986 through 1996 Topps. I've thought of trying to have the set of every year since I was born (early 80's). This could be something I could continue to do each year and look forward to it. Having a job now as opposed to a teenager makes it much easier to collect cards..even though the price has increased for smaller quantities of cards.
But if I decided to built sets of Topps for many years I almost think I'd want to put them in binders. Now, I know putting cards in the 9 slot page sleeves isn't the best for the condition but if I'm not going to sell these I question if it really matters? I think it might be cool to have a long line of binders noted for each year of Topps. I could even had some info from the season to go with each binder (season stats, records, awards etc..).
So again, I am looking for some feed back on my ideas and any other ideas that can some what make use of a collection that probably isn't easy to give away.
Thanks