This cartoon from today's Wash. Post ...

[ValKehl]

will bring either a chuckle or a painful reminder. I'm so fortunate that Mom decided to ask me if I wanted my childhood card collection before she trashed them.
Val

[GoldenAge50s]

I cut that out from MY paper this morning & forgot to post it! I told my Mother in 1958 when I went away to school to NOT throw out any of my "stuff" and she never did! Those cards are the "heart" of my collection today! Mom would have been 105 a week ago today.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Nice

[Jayworld]

Nice. My mom never threw anything of mine out, and she supported me collecting cards (and helped me with my collection as a kid) by stopping at the neighborhood 7-11 back in the mid-1970s to pick up a few 25 cent packs.

I think I shared this elsewhere a while back, but my mom was cleaning out some of her old purses several years ago, and found an unopened pack of 1976 Topps baseball cards that she had evidently bought and forgotten to give me. This was in the early 90s. It was fun opening a pack of cards over 15 years old!

She passed away 10 months ago. I miss her.

[z28jd]

My dad had his cards thrown away by my grandmother before I was even born and he still talks about it to this day. I think the part that bothers him the most is that he not only asked her to save them, they were on a shelf in the back of their finished basement and the shelf wasn't being used for anything else. He didn't have many cards, maybe a shoebox full, but he also had comic books he kept in great shape and 100+ ticket stubs from Yankee games in the late 50's-60's. The shelf was built for his stuff and it was so far out of the way, there was no reason the stuff couldn't have stayed there.

One item that luckily was kept from the scrap heap was a Mickey Mantle Day program from 1965 with signatures from Tommy Henrich, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman, Joe Garagiola and Dizzy Dean. They were all broadcasters at that time, though not all for the Yankees.

[kcohen]

Yes, my Mom either threw out or gave away my cards, she couldn't remember which, that I bought in the late 50s at the check-out counter of Peoples Drugstore (now CVS). And I gave her some mild grief over the years. However, the loss is merely sentimental, not financial. We played with our cards, flipped them, put them in our bike spokes, etc. A protective sleeve was unheard of, at least by me. So they would not be worth much anyway. Nonetheless, that cartoon really hits home.

[hoot-owl]

My mom suffers from PackRatitis as do several other members of my family--so it must be a genetic trait. I don't think she would have been capable of tossing the thousands of cards my two brothers and I bought--primarily from 1965-the early 1970s. I toted them around from western NY to WDC to Boston and back to the WDC suburbs.
So I still have a boatload of those cards--although most of the doubles have been shipped off to my OBC friends.

[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by Jayworld

Nice. My mom never threw anything of mine out, and she supported me collecting cards (and helped me with my collection as a kid) by stopping at the neighborhood 7-11 back in the mid-1970s to pick up a few 25 cent packs.

I think I shared this elsewhere a while back, but my mom was cleaning out some of her old purses several years ago, and found an unopened pack of 1976 Topps baseball cards that she had evidently bought and forgotten to give me. This was in the early 90s. It was fun opening a pack of cards over 15 years old!

She passed away 10 months ago. I miss her.

What a nice memory to have Jay. I'm sorry for your loss, mom's really are special......