Thoughts on baseball card budget

[drcy]

I think if you could buy anything you'd wanted, you'd get pretty bored (and bored with the stuff) pretty quickly.

In the past I've bought an expensive, rare item only to find out when I have it that I like some of my cheapo items better.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by drcy

I think if you could buy anything you'd wanted, you'd get pretty bored (and bored with the stuff) pretty quickly.

In the past I've bought an expensive, rare item only to find out when I have it that I like some of my cheapo items better.

I have had the same thing happen. For several years I was a card renter. I have owned a lot of the top cards in the hobby in lower grade for short periods of time. There were cool to own but not stuff I really wanted to keep.

As far as card budget. For the last 20-25 years I have only bought new stuff from the $ I got from selling old stuff. So I have not spent a penny out of pocket in a very long time.

[seanofjapan]

Working within a budget does allow you to showcase a certain amount of ingenuity that someone with unlimited funds can’t. I am more impressed with a collection assembled on the cheap by someone who put some imagination into it than I am by one assembled by someone just dumping a big pile of money on expensive stuff.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

Working within a budget does allow you to showcase a certain amount of ingenuity that someone with unlimited funds can’t. I am more impressed with a collection assembled on the cheap by someone who put some imagination into it than I am by one assembled by someone just dumping a big pile of money on expensive stuff.

As someone who knows someone, who knows someone, with big piles of money, I can safely say that most of them enjoy their big piles of money and get excited just as much as us with little piles of money, if not more. They are no different. I guess I am a value collector, or try to be, myself. Because after my daughters Masters degree, first semester cost, my budget is quite a bit smaller. I have no choice but to be a value-collector.