New member, no longer in the shadows

[sportscomicfantasy]

I have been lurking in the shadows for a while looking up things on the net and stumbling into net54 threads. At first, I would bypass this sites listing in my google searches, opting for Sports Collectors Digest or other sites. But after finding many top 10-20 listings on google many times, I started to read into the forum posts here. I slapped myself for not being more open-minded when I read the information contained finally in the first few I read as I found just as informative information and sometimes more, then I did in the sites I felt were more trustworthy. I first want to thank everyone for all the information I received in the past looking stuff up on the net and getting it off this site.

Now for me, I am a long time collector first off, started back in the mid-1970's (gray hair now apparent even over the net). I started selling back in the mid-1980's, by mothers force that I had too much crap in my room. We had a two bedroom apartment and my closet had more cards and comic then it did clothes. So I did occasional shows to appease her, just don't tell her I also bought cards while I was selling (shhh, she thought I was a good kid). I have always bought more than I sold, having to keep storage units most of my life to house much of my crap (I did buy too much crap in my early years).

I pretty much stopped when my wife died some years ago, not just buying and selling cards, but most everything. Well, I came back to life and it was much easier buying cards than anything else but I still enjoy it. Though I do buy too much and have too much so I am also sort of trying to sell some things now and then but don't have my heart into that as much as I probably should. But I am sure there are plenty of people on here who can relate to that.

But anyways, I am will probably be posting questions on things I have bought most recently first and then when I dig them out, other things I have bought over the years. I would like to know for selling purposes more about things that I don't exactly know what they are, or more information on them. But also so I could mark them properly when I store or display them in my next dwelling. An apartment is not holding enough room to store or display the things I definitely want to keep. Plus it would be good for the items to be marked because I am sure when I die there will still be a ton of stuff to be sold off by my relatives and it would be nice to help them out in that regard.

Anyways, I just want to say again thanks for the information I got in the past and I am sure there will be more in the future that I will learn from many of you on this site.