Balancing card fever with real life

[Matthew H]

I'm only attached to maybe 20% of my collection... If I were ever in a situation where I needed the money I'd dump the rest in a heartbeat.

[mrvster]

1994 corolla here!! 170,000 miles young....house in need o repairs....but scrap rules

[Leon]

Originally Posted by mrvster

1994 corolla here!! 170,000 miles young....house in need o repairs....but scrap rules

We live in a van down by the river, but my collection stays!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhgfjrKi0o




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[mrvster]

That was grrrrrreat!!

[gnaz01]

Originally Posted by Leon

We live in a van down by the river, but my collection stays!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhgfjrKi0o




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Leon,

Best Chris Farley bit ever!!!

[Sean]

Originally Posted by mrvster

1994 corolla here!! 170,000 miles young....house in need o repairs....but scrap rules

Johnny, at least you have a house.

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by mrvster

1994 corolla here!! 170,000 miles young....house in need o repairs....but scrap rules

I had a 95 Corolla with about 165,000 on it. A tree fell in my yard and smashed it flat. I couldn't seem to convince the insurance company that I couldn't drive it to get estimates because it was about 1 foot tall. Finally got my money and then a letter arrived from the city of Chicago. My license number was tied to about a hundred parking tickets. Lots of threats including confiscation of the vehicle. I've never been to Chicago in my life. I sent them a letter telling them to please come and confiscate as it was under a tree and I would love to have it removed. Funny thing, never heard from Chicago again. I had to clean up the mess myself. I'd rather have the car. It had another 100,000 in it for sure.

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by mrvster

1994 corolla here!! 170,000 miles young....house in need o repairs....but scrap rules

I've been driving company cars and gasing up on company cards for the past 10+ years. Before that my only cars were an '85 Honda Civic with 200K miles, a hole in the back door, front and rear bumpers held on by duct tape/bailing wire/and a shoelace. It died on the last day of my senior year, a block from the last party of our high school lives and we just pushed it into a parking lot and left it there. I followed this up with an '86 Prelude that took me through college and early adulthood (also 200K+ miles). It overlapped my first company car by a couple years, until it was eventually stolen and found a month later wrecked in Oakland. I signed it over to the tow yard to help offset towing fees and the many parking tickets it had accrued while derelict. All in all I think I've spent about $8K on cars and all the savings on cards. It's been a good run . If and when I ever take a normal desk job and they stop letting me drive their cars around, I may need to adjust my habits accordingly.. van full of cards by the river maybe???

[Bocabirdman]

As some of you may know, I recently completed a 23 year purge (1948-1970) from my collection over on the BST. Thanks go out to all who bought my collection. It took a month of non-stop work. Surprisingly, the seller's remorse that I fully expected is nowhere to be found, probably because the cards are readily available. It only takes money.

Outwardly, I told myself that I would top off a retirement account with 75% of the proceeds and use the remainder to slay the Monster. That was the original game plan. However, my job of 18 years is in danger of going bye-bye as my company is on the verge of re-locating their main facility to Philly from South Florida. My lack of typing skills prevent me from going into all of the details but the situation could get ugly. In sort of the reverse to being a problem, my cardboard hoard might be my saving grace. Oh, this is not carved in stone as yet and maybe, just maybe, my original 75/25 plan can come back into play. Even with this uncertainty looming, I bought a small handful of T206 commons this month to ease my bones. All in all, the purge money could keep me afloat for a while.

Time will tell. By the All-Star Break, I will either be un-employed or kicking the snot out of the T206 Monster

[KCRfan1]

Wow. Good Luck Mike. I hope everything works out ok for you.

[Bocabirdman]

Thanks Lou, I will be OK. It's just a bump in the road.

[T206Collector]

I once owned Lionel Carter's T206 Eddie Plank. Sold it about a year ago when I got an offer I couldn't refuse. The Plank was originally purchased with funds from a sale of about 400 T206 cards that I amassed over a 10 year period. So pure card money. Most of the Plank cash sponsored the addition of a half bath and other home improvements. I have never missed Eddie.

I consider just about everything other than my signed T206 collection as a slightly less liquid than cash form of savings. I dip into it whenever appropriate. As somone said already, all of my Sgc 60 T206s are right there on ebay, so not hard to get them back.