Why do you love the hobby?

[dbacksfan4life]

Why do you love the hobby of card collecting?

For me l love it because, l love baseball and l can have baseball year-round. And it is a nice distraction from homework.

So let's hear why you love it!

 

[Enfuego79]

It's been in my family for as long as I can remember. Also, I can sit around ad go through my cards all day without a care in the world.

 

[tramers]

Don't golf , fish or hunt , plus I wasn't into sports due to I had to earn any $$ I had . I was teams best fan

 

[gmsieb]

3 words

Double Buck Sunday


I loved following the players as a kid and the cards held some magic. Not sure I love the hobby, as it is today.
But I still love the cards and the sports.

 

[TBTwinsFan]

It brings me closer to the game that I love.

 

[mchenrycards]

My dad and I collected cards for a long time and carrying on my collection is a way to remind me of him when I see a card I know he liked.

Collecting also keeps my in touch with my childhood and since I am now in the second half of my life, keeping in touch with my childhood is important to me.

Collecting also keeps me in touch with friends I have made in the hobby over the past four decades and allows me to make even more friends now.

Collecting also allows me to escape my everyday life and get lost in a sport I grew up dreaming about.

 

[michaelstepper]

I don't really know when or why I started collecting. I remember carrying around a small bundle of 84-86 topps with a rubber band around it. Didn't let baseball take over my life until the '91 World Series and I went nuts from there. I felt closer to the game or more involved in some way by collecting.
Now I have that same feeling by collecting hof and my other pc's. In some small way, though I know I'm not the only one to do so, I'm keeping them relevant or not forgotten in their accomplishments.
No one I collect currently plays except Felix Hernandez and those pickups are pretty sparse.

 

[dbacksfan4life]

It brings me closer to the game that I love.

Very simple answer, but l love it!

 

[TBTwinsFan]

Very simple answer, but l love it!

Thanks!

That's seriously all it is. I love baseball, and I show it with my collection. Same thing with hockey.

 

[mrmopar]

I might have to agree that I am not sure I love it as much as I once did, but it is certainly a major link back to my childhood and it does help me remember the good times. I spend too much now and sometimes wonder why I do it. At the same time, I love to go through a box or album or pile and just admire the items that i have gathered along the way.

I have started to blog about some of my cards and a website to show off what I have been able to piece together would be cool if I had the skills and time, but that one is still on the to do list. I think some collectors like and desire the positive reinforcements that others give when viewing a nice collection, as it brings a sense of accomplishment.

I will say that I find myself questioning more and more just what I am doing with all this stuff though and why I continue to spend money on it. I am 45 and have two boys, 9 & 11, and although the card collecting is not negatively impacting my finances, I could be taking the money (and time) that I spend and putting towards college funds, vacation trips, home electronics or whatever else could be shared by the whole family. It's also time to be more concerned about our futures and less about the cards.

That said, I still enjoy the hunt and the thrill of ownership.

 

[AmishDave]

For the friendships I've made. Everything else usually sours, even some of those friendships, but, in the end, most stay strong while the hobby love fades.

 

[heavy_hitter]

I enjoy when previously uncatalogued cards are discovered, whether it's a tobacco card variation or a modern card that slipped through the cracks.

 

[All The Hype]

It's hard to beat a hobby you truly enjoy that can also make you some money and bring you closer to a game you love.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

The Broads

 

[DaClyde]

These days, I love it because it gives me something to research on the web. For some reason, all my hobbies end up turning into research projects where the actual thing (Star Wars, family history, wrestling, collecting cards) becomes secondary to the hunt for information about it. I've been having a lot of fun these last few years learning about obscure minor league sets, sets from Korea and Taiwan and Mexico and previously undocumented team issues.

 

[ASTROBURN]

Collecting is in my blood. Its like a family tradition. But I chose my Baseball cards because my friends collected it too. It was our common glue that kept us together.

Plus I like the hunts, and the overwhelming urge to find certain cards and complete certain sets/parallels.

 

[bmp1971]

Why do people hoard? Some experts say that those who compulsively hoard things to the point that it affects their daily activities are compulsive hoarders. This means that they have a condition that is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Compulsive hoarding is present in 30-40 percent of people with OCD. The condition may cut the person off from society, ruin relationships and even endanger lives.

This condition is actually different from disorganization or bad planning since it is thought to be a pathological brain disorder, which is often a symptom of impulse control disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and other illnesses. It is often seen that if one member of the family (especially a parent) hoards, their children are likely to follow. Why do people hoard within a family? Even though hoarding frequently runs in families, there haven’t been studies to support that DNA influences the condition.

“Why do people hoard?” can be answered by brain imaging studies. These studies say that compulsive hoarding involves a particular type of brain movement. Hoarding patients have an unusual pattern of glucose metabolism in their brain compared to healthy individuals or non-hoarding OCD patients. In addition, hoarders have extremely lower activity in the dorsal anterior cingulated cortex of the brain and studies found a different pattern of cognitive insufficiency. This deficit results to difficulty in making right decisions.

Another answer to the question “Why do people hoard?” is sentimental value. It should be noted that not everyone who has a hard time putting away their useless things is a compulsive hoarder. There are some people who cling to the memory of special people or events. When we think about it, all of us get attached to various things. There are things that remind us of those we love or special moments we don’t want to forget. There are just some people who enjoy having keepsakes. The difference with severely compulsive hoarders is that the attachment to things becomes extremely intense, which is more intense than the attachment to the actual giver.

There are those who hoard things because they fear that they will accidentally throw away something useful. They will always come up with all kinds of reasons why they shouldn’t throw their things, or they would think that other people might want them. Because they don’t want to lose their stuff, they wouldn’t mind having a chaotic house. The irony is that they refuse to let go of their things thinking they may use it in the future, but what happens is they couldn’t use all these things because there are just too much chaos. Some would even just be forgotten because of the pile of clutter.

 

[michaelstepper]

The Broads

This :lol:

 

[dbacksfan4life]

It's hard to beat a hobby you truly enjoy that can also make you some money and bring you closer to a game you love.

+100 !

 

[gmsieb]

The Broads

I think you can buy those with your fbc bucks.