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Originally Posted by ullmandds
The only card remaining in my collection is the fake fro joy sheet!!!!
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Lol...isn't that how it goes sometimes. As a T207 guy, I would love for a Red Cross to be card #13 in my story, but I've probably topped out for a while.
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Originally Posted by brass_rat
Great looking cards, Dan! Thanks for sharing the stories. I'm curious what your wife thinks 10 years later after you went to the card shop.  |
Kind of funny there. It definitely drew a lot of raised eyebrows for the first few years, but she tolerated it and we basically had a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on how much I spent on cards. During that time, I mostly kept my cards in a closed trunk. It was good for storage, but I ended up not really enjoying my collection because I never saw my cards. Then a couple years ago when I turned 40, I bought myself a really nice, big display cabinet. I spent an entire weekend installing lights, planning the display, and setting it up. When I was done, I asked my wife to come look at it. She came in, took one look, and said "ohhhh....now I understand!" Now
she's the one who shows it off when we have company over. I think by seeing everything displayed, she saw it more as a mini-museum rather than as a baseball card collection. We still don't really talk about prices, but she knows that it's worth a lot more after Covid, so that helps.
This is how it looked at the time; it's gone through a couple revisions since then.
