Keep it or break it?

[Exhibitman]

I've finished and sold off the 1954 Topps set three times [and counting]. I get bored after a while and start thinking about other projects. Besides, it's just cards, not my kid or my dog. Any card I have is for sale for the right price. Like John Lennon said "You don't take nothin' with you but your soul."

[ls7plus]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I've finished and sold off the 1954 Topps set three times [and counting]. I get bored after a while and start thinking about other projects. Besides, it's just cards, not my kid or my dog. Any card I have is for sale for the right price. Like John Lennon said "You don't take nothin' with you but your soul."

While I agree with Adam that you certainly can't take it with you, I prefer to enjoy my cards while I'm here. As a fellow associate and collector in my former law firm and I once agreed, the card connects you to the player and takes you back to the time. They are really footprints from the time of the players' youth, when they strode boldly across the playing fields with indominatable vigor, with limitless horizons in front of them (especially the stars and HOF'ers, which I collect). The history of the game, which you can hold right in your hand, an instant image of the player's life, there to be held and enjoyed (by someone) forever[?].

Bottom line is, other than cards like the '84 Star Michael Jordon rookie, which I was buying in '91 and '92 for $1,000, and selling for $3,000 in '93-'94, or the '82 Topps Traded Cal Ripken, which I was buying in '94 for $80-$100 and selling for $150-$200 in '95, I only sell cards in the advent of a financial emergency. I've been a baseball fanatic (plus player, at multiple levels) since I was about 11, and now, at 60, don't intend to stop anytime soon unless forced to do so.

But to each his own--Happy collecting,

Larry

[Exhibitman]

Oh, don't get me wrong, Larry, I really enjoy collecting and I'm not saying I am going to stop collecting or liquidate, just that I don't consider my collection to be sacrosanct, throw it in the box with me, stuff. My price would be way, way up there but come up with enough cash and I will not only sell you my collection, I'll help you load it in your car.