Had a fire sale today

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by mrmopar

First thing I thought was where do you live. I checked and see your profile lists South Dakota, so there is your problem! Next closest collector of cards is a day away!

LOL, That's only on a good horse and a clear trail.

[swarmee]

I saw your auction and almost bought it just for the 9-card pages. But then I remembered I had bought about five hundred pages at a yard sale for $15. I have a tub of about 30,000 right now that I'm going to donate to my church's next community yard sale.

[D. Bergin]

Congrats. You must have used a gallon of lighter fluid. Some of those cards are hard to burn...........I know from experience.

[buymycards]

I think I see a T206 Cobb near the top of the pile.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Congrats. You must have used a gallon of lighter fluid. Some of those cards are hard to burn...........I know from experience.

6 quarts of used oil, just changed oil in my Jeep.

[ullmandds]

burn baby burn!!!!! i love it!!!!

[Neal]

lol

[Leon]

This was copied from the water cooler section of the board because how many times do we get to see a bonfire of baseball cards?

[bn2cardz]

I am glad you confirmed you mailed me back my 1991 Double Sided Topps card prior to posting that you burned 50k cards.

[z28jd]

You did a good deed. Were there any 1987 Topps in there? That's what I have the most of, so I could use a mass burning of those cards if anyone wants to help out my retirement fund (88 Donruss also helps and I saw some in there, so thank you).

I think there are three acceptable things to do with junk wax cards to get rid of them:

Burning them will help collectors down the line if it happens enough, especially in quantities like you did. You might bring back collectors who still have them stored away, but don't collect cards anymore because they lost money on them back in the day. If they eventually have a small value, that could bring people back.

Giving them away to children. They either start to collect them, which is good for the hobby, or they throw them out, which also helps.

Cutting them up into art pieces like Tim Carroll. His process of cutting (pun intended) the junk wax population is very slow, but I like it the best.

[PiratesWS1979]

I burnt mine as well, was the most fun I had with 80's & 90's junk in 20 years! You had to have a few beverages with that many cards.

[cardsnstuff]

Next time give them to your local school, or if you have a boys and girls club in the area; My friend's wife teaches 3rd grade and I give her stacks of cards I no longer want and she gives them out to the boys (and girls if they want any) for good behavior. They love them since their older for them since most of them weren't even born yet {even if their junk 88 donruss, 90 fleer, etc} and usually she asks me several times a year If have anymore to give since the kids like them so much

[Beatles Guy]

Shipping would have been high, but I always donate mine to Commons For Kids.

http://commons4kids.org/

[Bigdaddy]

Can you burn them in a woodstove? Such a waste...to let all that heat escape.