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Dave FJoe...unfortunately it seems rather easy to picture a 75 year old man in his fruit of the loom whitey tighties sitting in a boarded up apartment away from all reality.
It is comical you refer to myself or others like me of having "investments" in cards. I don't have "investments" Joe. As a man in his early 30's...I was taught to live in today's society. I have my "investments" in my Roth accounts, plain ol' stocks, good ol' 401K (which I no won't amount to much by the time I get it), and company revenues as I work for an employee owned company. What I have in cards could hardly be deemed as investments of any type.
The big difference here Joe is your old. You were around in the days you could pickup multiple pre-war cards for $5.00...heck, a $1.00 even I'd venture to say. That $1.00 today Joe won't get you very far with pre-war cards. Had you not already had your inventory built up you would be sitting in the same place as myself and many others on this board...forced to sell cards to buy others.
The collectors who aren't forced to do so today are called something else besides collectors....they are called millionaires.