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John_B_CaliforniaLife is way too short to be worrying about what everyone else thinks.
I'm 28, and one of the reasons why I collect is that I find the idea of building something (i.e. a collection) very cool. To start with some allowance money when I was 12, and then progress on and off through the years, gaining more knowledge, building a collection, to me, that's a great thing to do. To get cards that I once dreamed about is very alluring.
When I was 9 or 10, I got a book of Dover reprints of all these great cards (Goudeys, CJ's, etc). And then after all these years to actually be in the market for the real cards.....that's just neat. That pull is too hard to give up. Why fight it.
Now if you have to choose between the next Mastro auction or paying the light bill...ok, then you've got a problem 