The cold hard truth about card collecting...
 

Ain't that the truth!...:)....

Funny...yet not so funny...

Love it. Laughing so hard!

I just put it on facebook.

I'm in the clear. No wife, and I'm immortal. I travel through life with my sword avoiding people named Kurgan. :D

Passing
 

"I hope when I die, people will say of me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money'"....Jack Handey

Makes you wonder why some sharp legal beagle hasn't started up a "service" marketed to senescent collectors worried about just that eventuality. Any survivor lacking knowledge of the value of collectibles is liable to pawn them off for whatever they might bring. But an executor with fiduciary responsibility would have to seek the best way to liquidate a valuable collection.

Executor
 

Which is why your financial adviser or executor should have a contact you trust

I had to have the awkward conversation with my fiancé the other day about how if I ever went, she needs to consult with an expert before selling my cards. She knows the price of some of my more valuable cards, but I don't think I could persuade her that a beat up Venezuelan Topps card can actually be worth 10-20X that of its American counterpart.

Famous last words. :cool:

Words
 

Next to last....

Al, what if you are your own financial adviser?

Advisor
 

I was a lawyer. I know what they used to advise about that

Rosebud
 

Yes, but if the fool outlives the executor, who becomes the financial advisor...jeez, this fast becomes too confusing for the layman.:confused:

Thats fantastic!!!! And so friggin true!!!!! My wife would have a heart attack if she knew what I have been spending on cards!!!

Would she rather you spend it on booze which literally is peed away while a collection can be re-sold and possibly for a profit? You have to use the investment angle.

I get the roll of the eyes when I try the investment angle....

Investing
 

Try a power point presentation :)

Tell her with inflation in the year 2164 they will be worth hundreds of thousands. There's her investment. Now all she has to do is figure out how to live another 150 years and she has it made. That's on her, not on you. You started the treasure, let her figure out the long life part.

The thing is that I keep telling her I will outlive her!!! :D

That was a fatal error.

Never die. Problem solved.

Immortal
 

Then you will outlive your cards