Outdated hobby items/ terms

[BBCgalaxee]

Heres a couple of once in demand / hobby items which are now not used.
How about yours?

Stars on top of rak/cello packs

2nd yr cards which are more than 3rd yr cards, etc.

Thick brick screw downs

Side loaded 9 pocket pages

 

[matfanofold]

Shoe Box
Rubber Bands
Picture Albums
Thumb Tacks
"Flip for cards"
Close pin for spokes

 

[jbhofmann]

Hobby

 

[matfanofold]

"refractor" (as in a rare hit)

 

[nicktv08]

Hobby

How true this is. More of a business for most people now a days.

 

[TBTwinsFan]

Beckett Value

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

Kids...

 

[MOFNY]

Gum. 1/1s being an amazing and valuable thing.

 

[All The Hype]

THESE cases.

One of my fondest memories of collecting when I was a kid was finally pulling a card worthy of using that cool case on, the O'Neil Bat Card (my first game used card):

 

[matfanofold]

Ryan Howard (zing!)

 

[AmishDave]

Average Auto's / Jersey's being super rare and exciting hits

 

[Austin]

Wax
Mojo

 

[vwnut13]

Side loaded 9 pocket pages

Those are coming back!

I like that the side loaded pages work with penny sleeves.

 

[AmishDave]

"Rookie Card" Hard Plastics

 

[Greg Cleveland]

Multiple magazines about cards, players, collecting, and other people's collections. Yes, I know everybody has their own website now, but back in the day, there were 5-6 magazines each month (or every other month) on the shelf to read, not just Beckett or Tuff Stuff (or even SCD!)

 

[petMonster]

Beckett Value

Word! I can't believe Beckett still puts out monthly price guides. They should probably start filing those in the "fiction" section of the book store.

 

[petMonster]

That one, gotta-have-it rookie card. Remember when players had that one super important rookie card which was no-doubt-about-it king of all their cards? Like the 1980 Topps Rickey Henderson, 1982 Topps Traded Ripken, 1984 Donruss Mattingly, 1989 UD Griffey. Nowadays I can't even tell you what year some of these players' true rookie cards came out, let alone what their most important/valuable cards are.

 

[morgoth]

the term "sick" is outdated

 

[thefatguy]

"Topps"

Haven't said that word since the monopoly began.

 

[Tom Oates]

XRC