Sports Card Addiction Is Slowly Coming Out of the Shadows Article

[todeen]

I think we are really cutting hairs by trying to define obsession and addiction. My wife would say they are synonymous and I still have a stupid hobby regardless of semantics.

I am a Latter-day Saint, or Mormon, and we talk about pornography addiction in our church a lot. One thing that they have published in the past is that members need to recognize there are occasional users, casual users, and everyday users. Everyday users would be those that fit the societal stereotypical definition of addicted. Occasional users would be viewing porn maybe once a month; and casual users might be once a week. I think this type of thinking would be similar to people who only smoke at bars. For some reason, when they are in that setting they choose to have a cigarette. But someone addicted to cigarettes will need one at a certain time each day. I knew a man who got down to one cigarette a day but couldn't stop because he needed it to go poop. If he didn't smoke on the toilet he got constipated.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by todeen

I knew a man who got down to one cigarette a day but couldn't stop because he needed it to go poop. If he didn't smoke on the toilet he got constipated.

Sounds like it's for medicinal purposes, which I'm pretty sure is permitted.

[ClementeFanOh]

I read the article and every post afterward. The article itself states that
sports card purchasing doesn't meet the parameters/definition of "addiction",
which was my initial feeling upon reading the first post. Lots of people do
unwise/unproductive/counterproductive things repeatedly- but does that
make the behavior "addictive"? No. My wife likes to unwind after work by
watching an hour of game shows. She does that almost every weeknight,
but I've not been tempted to call it an addiction. There's no financial cost
there, so how about folks who burn money on "toys" and underuse them?
RVs, boats, premium watches/jewelry, the list goes on, and they eventually
realize it's wasted money. But is it an addiction?

There seems to be a societal trend to try to classify/quantify almost every
behavior with some sort of clinical nomenclature. Bad choices don't always,
or even often, equate to addiction. My 2 pennies... Trent King

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by todeen

If he didn't smoke on the toilet he got constipated.

That's a really $h*tty problem to have.

He should try some Activia...it helps you poop



or maybe he prefers dry cereal:



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[steve B]

I like Rons idea, yeah, even the office workers. Looking at collecting long term,You never know who might become famous.

Imagine being down about pulling a card of Bill whatsis name, that kid who seems to live in the film room even though we don't pay him.
Then years later realizing thats the rookie card of a now famous coach.

I think that could be loads of fun.

[todeen]

Ron's idea isn't bad. Topps is doing something similar with their living set, with a new release every week. Each player will only appear once per uniform. So Griffey Jr could appear three times. They did no inserts or parallels until just this year. So collectors got grumpy about that because now people will increase print runs just trying to get the parallels.