[Vintageismygame]

I collected really heavy my senior year of college (2006) and for about 3 years afterwards. I was still living with my college roommate in his parents "extra" house. They furnished everything I needed and only charged me $300/mo. Man, I was able to stocked back the cash to fund my card purchases. I would advertise and buy up collections, cherry pick them and then sell off the rest to recoup my initial costs. 7 times out of 10 I made money on the overall purchase and ended up with "free" cards in my collection.

Fast forward to 2010. I had complete set runs of 1952(minus Mantle and a few other high #'s) - 1969 Topps Baseball, 1950 - 1955 Bowman Football, and 1955 - 1962 Topps Football, multiple copies of star cards (ie: Ruth and Gehrig Goudey's, Mantle, Mays, Paige, Williams - All the big names in Post-War Baseball and Football) I only had about $14k wrapped up in all this when "Boy met Girl". You all know how the story goes. Anyway, we got married in 2010 and I started selling to fund other purchases like the wedding, honeymoon, a large down payment on a house, and college fund for my daughter. Pretty much everything was sold. Do I miss it? Sure but I treasure my wife and little girl much more than I ever did those cards. Plus, I am much more focused on what I truly enjoy collecting, which at the moment is T206 cards!!

Matt