What got you started collecting cards?

[Samsdaddy]

I don't remember exactly what got me started collecting but 1975 Topps Baseball was the first wax packs I remember purchasing. My best friend did not collect cards but I always was collecting something whether it was cards or comic books. The 1975 Topps set hooked me. I always was collecting my favorite team, the White Sox and in football it was the Buffalo Bills. It was a chance to collect my heroes.

Over the years I have had a fairly decent size collection to just a couple sets and some other odds and ends which is where I am at now. I would give cards away to my nephews or sell some stuff to buy other items not sports related.

And, as one person said on here, I guess I tried to get out of card collecting, but I have found, I cannot. It too is in my blood. Just when I think I am done collecting, I am drawn back in. Sadly, I am back in at a time when I am unemployed and hurting financially.

This will pass and in the mean time, I get my fix on this forum.