What To Do With Extra Cards...?

[obcbobd]

Will a children's hospital take a box of thousands of 1990 cards? Me ex-wife works at a pediatrician's office and she said they would have no interest.

In the past, I was able t o find a neighborhood boy and my cousin's son who both took large amounts of cards and was quite happy about it.

[LuckyLarry]

E) recycle or throw away.
Larry

[Bestdj777]

My brother bought a similar size lot for me on Craigslist. I felt like I got my money's worth just going through them and sent the non-HOFers off to the Salvation Army. They may end up tossing them but maybe someone will enjoy them.

[Leon]

I have brought many big boxes of baseball cards to the Dallas Salvation Army and the kids love them. Please don't throw them away. I can almost guarantee your local Salvation Army has kids that would want them.

[KMayUSA6060]

Originally Posted by Bestdj777

My brother bought a similar size lot for me on Craigslist. I felt like I got my money's worth just going through them and sent the non-HOFers off to the Salvation Army. They may end up tossing them but maybe someone will enjoy them.

Exactly. Would I love to get my $5 back in actual monetary form via resale? Sure. But did I get $5 in entertainment value out of them? Yes.

Originally Posted by Leon

I have brought many big boxes of baseball cards to the Dallas Salvation Army and the kids love them. Please don't throw them away. I can almost guarantee your local Salvation Army has kids that would want them.

I can promise you, and everyone else on this board, that I will NEVER throw away these or any other sports cards.


For me, I would prefer to donate them to specific kids that I know would enjoy them. Might contact the Wounded Warrior Project to see if they have any families with younger kids that like sports and would take the cards. Only issue there is delivery, as the nearest WWP office is in Pittsburgh which is 2 hours away.

Please keep any and all ideas coming, minus ideas that include disposing of the cardboard in the garbage/recycling bin.

[LuckyLarry]

The first card show I took my grandson D to, he was looking at these packs of shiny cards that cost $5 each which I thought was an outrageous price. So I bought him a whole box of these mid 90s basketball cards that had college players on them, and the whole box was $2. He never even opened all the packs, they are still sitting in the corner of his room unopened. I don't think he recognized one player. What fun is that?
Last week I had grandson A and grandson D in the car with me, and we made a quick stop at my local card store so I could pick up supplies. Grandson D wanted basketball cards, so the card store manager showed him the latest products, and D chose a pack of new Donruss. Grandson A wanted Pokemon cards LOL, both packs cost $4 I think. Now they had fun with those!

Sometimes I see these hoards of '90s cards at garage sales, and I think to myself "dude you would have to pay me to haul this stuff away".

You want to get kids excited about cards? Give them some players they have heard of, not a pile of junk.

Larry

[Rich Klein]

We can always use more cards for our goodie bags for the Adat Chaverim non profit show I run 2x a year

And I can provide tax receipt sheets for all donors

Thanks!
Rich

[bnorth]

I agree with a few previous posters, no kids want your junk cards with players on then they never heard of. Hell most don't even want the new shiny cards unless they are free and Mike Trout limited edition or super shiny limited editions.

The last few years I have tried handing out free packages of cards to kids that got drug along to my produce stand with their parents/grandparents. I put 1 modern autograph, 1 modern patch card, 1 Kirby Puckett and then 7 random Twins(this is Twins country) players from the 60's to present to make 10 card packages.

I had several want them at first. Then because there was no big $ cards in them only a few wanted them after that. I even had a few kids complain to me that they could not sell them at school.