Card Collector True Confessions

[steve B]

Originally Posted by quinnsryche

My wife doesn't ask what I spend on cards and I don't ask her how much she spent on Rodan & Fields (makeup-very expensive makeup). Probably a wash. I love my wife!

I was a bit disappointed the companies logo looked nothing like this



Yes, there are several reasons I'm not in the corporate logo business.

Steve B

[seanofjapan]

I live in Japan and collect cards here. The main set I collect each year is put out by a company called Calbee, which distributes its cards with bags of potato chips (you get 2 cards per bag, the sets usually have about 250-300 cards).

This is what my kitchen cupboards look like during the baseball season:

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

I live in Japan and collect cards here. The main set I collect each year is put out by a company called Calbee, which distributes its cards with bags of potato chips (you get 2 cards per bag, the sets usually have about 250-300 cards).

This is what my kitchen cupboards look like during the baseball season:

Better than bubble gum, I guess.

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Better than bubble gum, I guess.

Well, better than Topps bubble gum at least.

The downside though is that the chips come on one flavor (plain) and you accumulate way more than you can ever eat very very quickly. Plus the chips themselves constitute about 80% of the value of the thing you are buying, whereas bubble gum is more or less a freebie attached to the cards (or at last was back in the day). And gum doesn't take up anywhere near as much space!

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

Well, better than Topps bubble gum at least.

The downside though is that the chips come on one flavor (plain) and you accumulate way more than you can ever eat very very quickly. Plus the chips themselves constitute about 80% of the value of the thing you are buying, whereas bubble gum is more or less a freebie attached to the cards (or at last was back in the day). And gum doesn't take up anywhere near as much space!

Sean, do the cards come wrapped inside the bag? I hope so, otherwise staining would be an issue.

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Sean, do the cards come wrapped inside the bag? I hope so, otherwise staining would be an issue.

Yes they put them in little packs that are attached to the outside of the bags like this, so the cards come stain free.

[Leon]

That was smart to do it that way. Too bad some of the other series we collect didn't do that...

As far as confessions, I feel like Good Morning Vietnam when I walk into my office each morning and sit down to "do" cards......whatever endeavor it might be....it's always fun.

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

Yes they put them in little packs that are attached to the outside of the bags like this, so the cards come stain free.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

Yes they put them in little packs that are attached to the outside of the bags like this, so the cards come stain free.

Shows the difference in the Japanese and American people as far as personal morals at times. I feel if they did that here this guy I always see fondling and cherry picking the packs at Target for autos and inserts would be removing and pocketing them all.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Better than bubble gum, I guess.

Hey now- I have it on good authority that gum was still good ten years later. Could ever claim that about potato chips, even the radioactive kind.