Have you ever wanted to just sell your Autograph collection?

[hawaiian bam bam]

Thanks guys for posting. True you can't take money with you as well, but at least with money you can sure enjoy life now doing fun things an taking trips with the family etc. and your right I can't take tires and a radio with me but also I can't drive a car with bald tires either! The radio was just one example of how nice it was to sell cards and use that money to buy something I could use daily without having to pull money out of my pocket to pay for it . I don't miss the cards I sold to pay for the tires or radio but I feel I might miss
My favorites cards if I sell them. But on the other side of the coin it would be nice to be sent free.

[theshleps]

Unless you are collecting cards in the same way someone would invest in stocks- I wouldn't go into debt to buy. That is insane. get all the "necessities of life" taken care of first, and your family stuff

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by hawaiian bam bam

Thanks guys for posting. True you can't take money with you as well, but at least with money you can sure enjoy life now doing fun things an taking trips with the family etc. and your right I can't take tires and a radio with me but also I can't drive a car with bald tires either! The radio was just one example of how nice it was to sell cards and use that money to buy something I could use daily without having to pull money out of my pocket to pay for it . I don't miss the cards I sold to pay for the tires or radio but I feel I might miss
My favorites cards if I sell them. But on the other side of the coin it would be nice to be sent free.

What you stated is showing my point of priorities in life. What is your first, second, third, etc. priority? This will show what's important to you. Getting into debt purchasing auto/cards would show this as a priority. Now, I'm sure that's likely not your chosen priority, even though this is occurring. So then change the priority and do what you need to do to "enjoy life now doing fun things", "taking trips w/the family, etc.". Usually that's a change in your thought process. Change your mind on things you "want" to things that you "need in life" or what is "important in life".

Just a side note I fell into some of the same situations you're discussing here and I had to change; so it's from personal past experience. I no long "need" everything that is out there that's collectible. I choose to purchase what I can afford and still have needs met and the enjoyment caring for and being w/ family.

[mrmopar]

Having seen you post on different boards over the last couple of years, it seems to me that you are not into "collecting" for the enjoyment of the collection. I'm not sure what your end game is, but you definitely seem to flip-flop around a lot. First you are buying any and all Dodgers at any price just to get them, then you are selling them. You wanted signed Diamond Kings, then Perez Steele, then 8x10s only, all the while you frequently talk about liquidating everything. You also seem to need or value the input of near strangers for collecting decisions, which is fine, I suppose, but it should be about what you want.

This is also the first I have seen of you actually needing to sell cards to meet the necessities of life. if that is the case, then you really should sell it all and enjoy the "finer" things, since cards don't seem to be providing that enjoyment to you any longer, if they ever did.

My opinion is that you should not have to sell something like a card collection to fund tires or groceries for example or you should not be amassing large debt by collecting. I can see funding a special vacation or something like that where it is an unnecessary expense and you are trading unnecessary cards for unnecessary entertainment, but you should always be able to buy the essentials and if that money is going towards cards and signatures, then your priorities are askew.