Show baseball cards from a set you had started and have abandoned.

[jerrys]

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jspillman/mr305.htm

[rhettyeakley]

Too many to count...

-1921, 22, 23-24 Exhibits
-E120
-V100
-1934, 35-36, and other Diamond Matchbooks
-V122
-N172 (this one about 3-4 times)
-etc.

Sometimes I think a set would be right up my alley only to find out when I'm half-way there or so that it just doesn't do it for me. The N172's are just cost prohibitive more than anything else-- if I didn't have a wife, kids, and my $240K Student Loan debt I'd probably pursue them more vehemently

[MikeGarcia]

Several of us out here would like to know who lends $240K to guys who play with baseball cards ?

[darrend505]

Being a set collector, I do not know what it is to quit a set. Have yet to do that!

[Fred]

Ok, I picked up a Yum-Yum and after that decided to abandon my attempt to collect all of them because I could sell every other card in my collection and maybe buy three more.... Oh yeah a pic... well I sold that Yum Yum because I couldn't afford to keep it because someone made a really generous offer for it... I suppose the person that bought it could post that scan...

I've been slowly completing a 1940 Play Ball set for the past 25 years. Every once in a while I pick up a card and come a little closer to getting that set done. It took me 15 years to compelete my first T201 set. I'm just not in a hurry to do those things. I pick stuff up as it comes along at reasonable prices. Doing that makes the hobby a bit more fun and challenging.

[Jaybird]

I'm not a set collector. Sometimes I think I am and begin a set because I like the cards or issue that much. I once tried the 1918 Zeenuts (impossible) and P2 Sweet Cap Pins. I like both sets to the degree that one card won't satisfy and more than 5 is too much.

I've reconciled myself to the fact that I'm not a completist. I just don't need that satisfaction that comes from finishing a set. I'd much rather search out the next rare jewel and have the resources to pursue it.

I try to hold onto a few of the better condition or ones that I like the most if I ever stall on a set. Evidenced by a couple of P2s below.

[tbob]

[QUOTE=Jaybird;942372]I'm not a set collector. Sometimes I think I am and begin a set because I like the cards or issue that much. I once tried the 1918 Zeenuts (impossible) and P2 Sweet Cap Pins. I like both sets to the degree that one card won't satisfy and more than 5 is too much.

I've reconciled myself to the fact that I'm not a completist. I just don't need that satisfaction that comes from finishing a set. I'd much rather search out the next rare jewel and have the resources to pursue it. QUOTE]

You are so lucky. It' all about the complete sets for me

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

Several of us out here would like to know who lends $240K to guys who play with baseball cards ?

If only that money was free to spend on what I like! That is the cost of becoming a Dentist in this day and age. And people wonder why it costs so much to have that crown done!

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by Jaybird

I'm not a set collector. Sometimes I think I am and begin a set because I like the cards or issue that much. I once tried the 1918 Zeenuts (impossible) and P2 Sweet Cap Pins. I like both sets to the degree that one card won't satisfy and more than 5 is too much.

I took the opposite approach!

Once I had 20-30 Zeenuts I just kept broadening my Zeenut collection from at first just doing one or two sets, to then just up to 1919, then I got a group of 1922's and I included all up to the B/W era (1924 on), then I just said "screw it" and I'm collecting them all now... 1,800 Zeenuts later I'm only approaching half way (I am a real glutton for punishment!).

[kmac32]

I collect E 121 series of 80 and 120 and associated subsets associated with the 1921 World Series. This started out as a quest to collect all of the varieties of Elmer Miller cards I could. The Miller collection got corrupted into the e121 collection through a trade with a fellow net 54 member. The obsession is a little expensive due to the Ruth cards involved. Maybe some day I will win the lotto and buy all the E121 varieties of Ruth cards. Oops, I need to play the lotto to win first. My bad.

[mybuddyinc]

118/120, then sold:

http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...0longer%20own/

.... fun while it lasted

[jerrys]

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jspillman/me254.htm


http://home.roadrunner.com/~jspillman/mn184.htm

[Jaybird]

Nice Colgans, Jerry. Some real gems in there. Good thread as well.

[Brian Van Horn]

"Show baseball cards from a set you had started and have abandoned."

I don't abandon sets, they just seem to elude me.

[rainier2004]

Well I am a completionist...at this point I have 6 sets going and am contemplating starting a 7th...this doesnt include the t202 and t205 obseesion I went thru...or the 70% complete 59 topps set that stopped...or my upgrade project that never ends...or the 49 bowman set that abruptly started and then stopped...maybe its time to let one go?

[t206blogcom]

For me, 34 Goudey. Always liked the looks of these cards, the set isn't huge, only a few of budget buster cards, but about 10-15 cards in, it wasn't doing anything for me. I'll stick to my T206s (for now).

[ValKehl]

Being a type-card collector and a specific-player collector, fortunately (I guess) I don't have this "problem."