magicpapa
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If You Have Ever Uttered Theses Words........................
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You know you're a card Collector when you remember who Kevin Maas was...
You know you're a card collector when you can only remember the specific year an important life event happened by connecting it to the cards you were collecting at the time.
"Hmm I must have graduated high school in 1996 because I remember pulling Topps Mantle inserts out of packs..."
When you're the jerk that crushes everyone's big money dream. Ie sorry bro that 90 pro set Bo Jackson in a screw down isn't worth that much
Outside of those collectors that are either well off enough or don't give a care for their personal financial situation, this is the best response for a collector such as myself.How about this: You equate the cost of a card or collectible you are considering for purchase in how many days, hours or minutes you'd have to work to earn that money? I have used this justification more than a few times and it seems to make the decision easier if I know I only need to work 1 hour to buy that card I want.
...when you are annoyed that movies use fake baseball cards as props, when they could more easily have just picked up a stack of real cards for cheaper.
I was watching some movie trivia video on YouTube (maybe Cracked) and they pointed out several props that get reused from movie to movie, and one was a newspaper. Someone actually went to the trouble to create a fake prop newspaper, when they could have just bought one for 25 cents. Yet that same paper keeps showing up in movies and TV shows with the same photos, stories and headlines, year after year.
....your wife/gf tells you that she has a great weekend planned and to get "plenty of protection" while at the the store and you bring home two packs a of sleeve, 4 packs of toploaders, and a package of 9-card pages.