TOP 10+ Indicators That YOU Are a Baseball Card Degenerate

[packs]

You will buy a card you don't necessarily want or need just because you got a good deal.

[1952boyntoncollector]

some real good ones there.

[JollyElm]

You search on ebay using misspellings (e.g., "Hank Aron") hoping you'll find a great card at an unbelievably low price, because no one else has run across it.

[Luke]

Haha, some really good ones. And about half apply to me. Can't say I'm surprised.

[btcarfagno]

You have Vaseline and Kleenex on the ready for when the REA Spring catalog arrives.

Come on. I'm not the only one.

Right?

Right?

Tom C

[Econteachert205]

You soak cards more often than you do laundry.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

You have Vaseline and Kleenex on the ready for when the REA Spring catalog arrives.

Come on. I'm not the only one.

Right?

Right?

Tom C

...and I'm the super-creepy Rob Lowe.

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by Runscott

...and I'm the super-creepy Rob Lowe.

Sitting at the pool watching people swim.

Tom C

[kmac32]

3,5,6,and 9 for me

[obxhouses4rent]

The best one is number nine. Logic has left the building. Funny stuff.

[obxhouses4rent]

You have been in the hobby long enough to remember when rookie cards carried no extra premium.

Or when you remember you could buy all the single signed Ruth balls you wanted under a grand.

[LEHR]

Originally Posted by packs

You will buy a card you don't necessarily want or need just because you got a good deal.

I'm guilty of this!

I tell myself "it was a good deal so I'll use it as trade material.".

[h2oya311]

A variation of these is:

You overpay for a card you "need" and haven't seen in years (if ever). A month later, a virtually identical second card becomes available for sale and you buy it as well (a) because you can't let it "go for cheap", (b) you need to justify having overpaid for the first, and (c) because, like me, you are addicted to cardboard!

[Jobu]

You have looked at the balance in your bank account and figured out what one card you could purchase with it.

You spend all of your free time on an internet message board discussing 113 to 115-year-old pieces of cardboard.

You get hot and bothered because people on a free internet message board take up too much space discussing 113 to 115-year-old pieces of cardboard when you would much rather talk about cardboard that is either slightly younger or slightly older.

When you take your dog for a long walk you wonder if you passed any houses with a dusty box of prewar cards in the attic.

[packs]

You watch auctions end just to see if you were right about the final price.