Near miss...Cards that you've personally taken out of existence...

[Cardboard Junkie]

In 1956, when I was five and my brother was 14, we decided to clean house. We had a nice collection of 1956 topps baseball (I would guess at 1000 cards) soooooo we thought...." why should we keep the old outdated cards" so into our basement incinerator went a 55 gallon cardboard drum of baseball, football and hockey cards.....including a scrapbook jammed with T cards and other unregonizable cards of mostly players we had never heard of. I don't remember 52's in there but tons and tons of 53's bowmans topps and ???
I also remember buying 5cent packs of 54 topps hockey..ripping them open and cramming the gum in our mouths and then flinging the cards into the air like frisbees, leaving them strewn from the "milk depot" all the way to our house.
Also when we were kids we liked to carry our cards, especially tigers, bound by rubber bands in our back pockets. Those corners were a little sharp sooo, geniuses that we were, we ground the corners off so they would be nice and soft.
Woe Is Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!