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Posted By: davidcycleback

My dad wouldn't have thrown out my baseball card unless my mom told him to. Both as he wouldn't have an inclination and as mom was the boss over what was stored in the back of closets. So mom gets credit for the cards not being tossed. Dad gets credit by association.

My mom would keep our stuff, but it had better be packed away neatly. If I had kept my baseball cards in a garbage bag on the basement floor, she might have thrown them away. But I had them in boxes on a shelf in the back of a closet, so that was no problem.

The interesting thing is, though today I live about 2,000 miles from where I grew up, I live a couple of miles away from my retired parents. As I live in a condo and they in a house, I still have baseball memorabilia stored in their house.