This hobby is addicting...!!!
I sold off my collection on ebay a year and a half ago to help finance a mountainbike purchase...figuring I wouldn't be back.I just bough the book Fenway 1912..next thing you know I'm on this site..thenstarting the end of summer (after building up a second mountainbike) I'll be dipping back in...T206 portraits.How many of you have been drawn back when you originally broke the addiction for another love?
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i am in the sports cards collecting hobby since 1990, but many time i leave the hobby for try another hobby. Each time i made return in my first hobby : sport cards.
i tried in the past many hobby like comic book collecting, stamp collecting, antique muscle car but each time i return to sport cards. I just made my return since 2 month ago from the muscle car hobby to the baseball card hobby. But i never really completely left the sport cards hobby, each year i had bought cards, but with the intention to make a little profit and resell it.... but now my intention is collect and not resell for now. |
Well, I sold my collection at the end of 2010 into 2011 to take my wife and daughter on a European vacation last summer. I didn't get the "itch" back until recently. I'm excited to be back into it.
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I collect a bunch of stuff, coins, stamps is where I started, I've gone back a few times, come back to cards a few times, never really left any of the hobbies.
What kind of mountain bikes? I'm mostly a track/road guy, but I have some MTB stuff. (And I work in a shop when I'm not taking care of the kid) Steve B |
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I also started off with coins and stamps - Dad used to buy bags of pennies from the gum ball machine vendor, and we'd spend hours sorting through them. When I left cards 8 years ago, kept collecting photos, but replaced cards with billiard stuff, which I still collect. |
As an adult I had three hobbies this being my third. In 2008 I started collecting M.A.S.K action figures. These were toys I was crazy over in the 80s. Some of you in your 30s probably remember these. Anyway I collected for a few months then got them all and spent $600 total. It was fun for a second but when I was done I felt like I made a mistake. I sold them off on ebay as an entire collection in auction and it sold for $150 (this was the very first thing I ever sold on ebay, lesson learned about selling everything at once).
I moved on to an interesting hobby collecting U.S. Navy rating badges (rank patches worn by sailers). I had ones from WWII, WWI and 19th century. Some of them were a lot of money. The patches were fascinating and fun to collect but too rare and frustrating. You would have a risk of never seeing an item again and had to have money ready at all times. During down time collecting the rate badges I browsed my old hobby from when I was a kid, and that was cards. I fell back in love with collecting cards and this time I was collecting what I always wanted to collect as a kid, vintage cards. I sold all my patches and made a few grand on ebay then I bought a 1952 Topps Eddie Mathews, 1939 Playball Ted Williams, 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #53, and a 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle with the money I made. I have no regrets. |
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Never left bb cards for another collection. They always seemd to coincide with other things and I feel that is a good place for a hobby to be. I thought I may sell my cards to buy a home, and now I know I wouldnt. One of a few things that makes me feel 8!
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Never left card collecting...WISH I had the liquid income of some of the collectors on this site...seriously, some major $$ being thrown around for cardboard |
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other collecting
Maybe I should go to "Collectors Annonymous" as I waste money on:
Coins - just joined PCGS for coin submittal of my Buffalo nickels. Star Wars stuff - just had to have that Darth Maul rotating figure. Fishing rods/reels/lures/flies - how many reels can a dude fish with - fly reels,spinning reels, and too many rods for my good size rod rack. Rocks, fossils and crystals - here we go again, lots of cool stuff I have. American Indian old pottery - mostly Acoma Indian, older with famous name signatures. Somebody help me please! |
I must have been about ten when Pokemon cards got popular. I remember trading all my baseball and football cards for popular Pokemon cards. It sounds a disaster story but actually it wasn't bad; at the time I was collecting the 'next young stars' like Keyshawn Johnson, Ruben Rivera, and Hideki Irabu. About a year or two later, I got bored with Pokemon cards and traded them in for the next young stars...Tim Couch, Pat Burrell, and the great Ron Dayne!! Oh well, i took a two year detour to end up with the nothing i started with, but at least I learned that I could never be a talent scout!
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Those are very nice bikes.
I collect mostly bikes that were actually raced. I have a few that were made for the US national team from 83-86 plus some other pro team stuff. (Plus helmets and Jerseys and .....) Hey, it's all sports collectibles so it's really only the same as the cards right? :D Of course there are a few "other" bikes that I couldn't pass up. I think around 70 of them. Seriously time to thin the herd. 1986 Team pursuit -Disqualified at the world championships for being too aerodynamic. http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=2629 1984 Team time trial US Olympic team. Bronze medal. They built 12 and used 4 so about a 33% chance it was in the olympics. http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=3851 Lots of replacement parts on both, the originals are impossible to find. I started in I think 98, and I've never seen an original 80's national team wheel for sale. And only a couple dating from the 90's. After 2000 they used normal parts. Steve B Quote:
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Redline Hotwheels count?
1968-1972
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All these cars are "Red Cobbs" in this other hobby
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I shudder to think of all the matchbox cars and Johny Lightnings my brother and I crushed under our couch to give them the crashed look.
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