What to do with 80's and 90's cards?

[Mountaineer1999]

How many of you still have these cards lying around and how many have tossed, sold or donated them? I tell myself to just throw them out but it never happens. So I am curious how many people have kept them, taken them to the dump or to goodwill?

[Exhibitman]

I gave away tens of thousands of them back when they would still be taken. Even the childrens' hospitals don't accept them anymore. I sold a few 5,000 count boxes for peanuts at a garage sale. I still have several thousand stars and HOFers. I keep a few cards from the players I like from the 1980s. I can't bring myself to throw them out. I will probably put them out at a show for a quarter a card and let the pickers go at it.

[ZachS]

My parents just gave me a couple of boxes of stuff that has been at there house since I was in high school. In addition to the piles of 80's and 90's cards I already had, I now have even more. I'm going to have to start burning these things or something.

[Buythatcard]

When I first started in the business of selling cards, I purchased over 100,000 cards from that time period. Didn't know much about the value of cards back then. I paid very little for it and thought I would make a killing. After a few weeks, I realized that these cards were worthless to an investor.
I had a friend who was a pediatric oncologist at the local hospital. I asked him whether any of the kids would enjoy having these cards. He said they would.

So, I donated all the cards to the hospital. Knowing that this made some sick child happy made it all worth it to me.

[z28jd]

I still have mine, just plan on keeping them and looking through them when I'm old and bored. It would be nice if some people started destroying them to thin out the population for us savers, but donating them is also good. Handing them out at Halloween is also a good idea, maybe get some new collectors out of it.

[Bestdj777]

I still have my childhood collection, which fortunately was not that large. I love going through my old binder and looking at the cards I "carefully" placed in there as a kid. I don't have any plans to get rid of them as it brings back memories every time I go through them

My brother just picked up about 50,000 80s/90s cards for me so that I could flip through them and relive some memories. For those, I really don't have any attachment. I will likely hold on to some of my favorite players and donate the rest, if someone will even take them. I'm assuming I would be able to find someone on Craigslist that would pick them up. Either way, I'm looking forward to going through "new" cards.

[brewing]

I have tossed most of the commons.