What to do with 80's and 90's cards?

[bbcard1]

I have experimented with ways to use them as firewood but have found nothing that really works.

[almostdone]

I think the next poll should be "What is the nicest way to let your non-collector friends know that the closet full if cards they are hoarding since childhood weren't a good investment and it won't send their kids to college".
I get someone at least once a month stopping me and starting out a conversation with "Hey. I heard you collect cards. I've got a bunch back home...". I always start to think maybe this time it will be different but except once it wasn't.
Drew

[GehrigFan]

On January 27th, I am leading a group of ten Heritage employees (and possibly a few Panini employees) to run a short program for kids at the Scottish Rite Children's Hospital across the street from Heritage HQ in Dallas.

I went through my own cards long ago and donated most to Goodwill, but others here gave me boxes of cards, and I am pulling HOFers, stars (Griffey Jr., Bo Jackson, Clemens, etc.), interesting people the kids might relate to (Jim Abbott, Dave Dravecky, etc.), and local Mavericks, Rangers, Cowboys and Stars. I also had tons of Starting Lineups, mint in the package, and will give every child one of those, plus I found a lot of extra autographed 8x10's to give everyone one. Also an autographed card for each kid. Then they get a whole box of HOFers, stars, and RCs. Then Panini provides boxes and we will play pack wars and give away other prizes.

I doubt children's hospitals want a bunch of 5000 ct boxes of junk cards anymore, but if you are willing to donate your time to help the kids learn about collecting, I find them very helpful and willing to welcome you. The common commons... just dump at Goodwill. But pull the interesting cards.

If anyone has anything they want me to bring to the kids, please PM me and I'll give you an address. We don't have any vintage cards yet.

Thanks!
Mark Anderson

[ctownboy]

80's and 90's junk?

Buy a paper shredder and whenever you have the time and are stressed or angry, take the cards and start shredding them one by one.

To me, this helped to relieve the stress or anger, got rid of some cards and helped the collecting world by getting the cards out of circulation permanently. After the cards were shredded, I took the shreddings to a recycling bin so they could be reused. That way, they weren't going into the dump.

David

[KCRfan1]

My favorite set of the 80's was the 1983 Topps baseball. A lot of similarity with the 1963 and 1973 sets in terms of style.

[Rich Klein]

As part of our Adat Chaverim Plano III show, we're giving at the door either a box (or a bag) depending on what we feel like doing of cards to everyone who pays our $1 standard donation.

Without overly trying, we are at about 30K cards right now and one gentleman even sent us about 75 1989 Fleer George Kenneth Griffey Jr Rookie Cards. One of our members just donated 10,000 or so cards from his youth and many late 1970's HOFers are in there as well.

Will always take more cards for that purpose and can provide you a tax receipt sheet. We'll take better cards as well

[K-Nole]

Before you throw out or burn your 1978, 1979 , 1980,
1981,
Let me take them off your hands.

Zack and I have sets of these years built, however, I think he and I would enjoy trying to put another one together of them.

Just a thought :-)