Sold your cards to fund......

[Vintageismygame]

I collected really heavy my senior year of college (2006) and for about 3 years afterwards. I was still living with my college roommate in his parents "extra" house. They furnished everything I needed and only charged me $300/mo. Man, I was able to stocked back the cash to fund my card purchases. I would advertise and buy up collections, cherry pick them and then sell off the rest to recoup my initial costs. 7 times out of 10 I made money on the overall purchase and ended up with "free" cards in my collection.

Fast forward to 2010. I had complete set runs of 1952(minus Mantle and a few other high #'s) - 1969 Topps Baseball, 1950 - 1955 Bowman Football, and 1955 - 1962 Topps Football, multiple copies of star cards (ie: Ruth and Gehrig Goudey's, Mantle, Mays, Paige, Williams - All the big names in Post-War Baseball and Football) I only had about $14k wrapped up in all this when "Boy met Girl". You all know how the story goes. Anyway, we got married in 2010 and I started selling to fund other purchases like the wedding, honeymoon, a large down payment on a house, and college fund for my daughter. Pretty much everything was sold. Do I miss it? Sure but I treasure my wife and little girl much more than I ever did those cards. Plus, I am much more focused on what I truly enjoy collecting, which at the moment is T206 cards!!

Matt

[ullmandds]

I sold my t206 drum back solly hofman back in the early 2000's to buy a leather recliner that my cat then destroyed leading to the removal of his front claws.

That's really the only card I specifically sold to fund a non related purchase. I have and continue to sell cards to buy other cards...and I think about selling a good chunk of my collection to buy a car at times...but this would be a poor long term investment in most cases!

[MyGuyTy]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

I sold my t206 drum back solly hofman back in the early 2000's to buy a leather recliner that my cat then destroyed leading to the removal of his front

Wow you made out on that one huh?

Something tells me you wish you had that Drum back in your hands right now