[novakjr]

Originally Posted by Volod

Ahh, brings back so many fond and anguished memories. I had long since stopped collecting at the time I enlisted in 1961, but I was still working on a large stamp collection, so before I took off for boot camp, I gathered up all of my nerd stuff, including several hundred early '50's cards, and secreted it all in a locker in a dank, musty part of the family garage, thinking it was unlikely to be found while I was gone. Wrong again, Watson - I still recall that day sitting on my footlocker in the barracks, reading a breezy note from my sainted mother that ended with, "by the way, your father was cleaning out the garage and found some of your old things that you had forgotten about, so we put them in the trash to make more room for the cars." To this day, I believe Ma knew I treasured that stuff, but she wanted to punish me for choosing the military over college. Judging from the other memoirs posted here, I guess we're all a bunch of obsessive-compulsive hoarders with childhood regression issues, huh?

Not exactly a painful mother story. But I've been told numerous times that I was supposed to have been given my uncle's childhood collection. Supposedly complete Topps sets from the mid-late 60's- mid 70's. However, no one seems to know exactly where they are or who actually ended up with them..Although, I've heard some speculation. All that anyone could find was his late 70's football stuff though. Unfortunately, I was a kid, and they're now in "not so collectible" condition...Maybe it was for the best that I didn't end up with the baseball stuff...It would be great to have though..