How much the wife knows about your collection

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Originally Posted by JollyElm

53. Ebaysion
Hiding your auction purchases from your wife, girlfriend or significant other.

Haha! Nice!

In the OP, Fred asks if your wife knows how much your collection is worth.

I'll bet that half, if not more, of the collectors on this forum don't truly realize or know themselves how much their collection is actually worth.

For some, it can be hard to keep accurate track of things. If you do take the time and put costs into a spreadsheet and hit the "sum" button to see the total amount, you may be genuinely shocked at the number you see.

[ricktmd]

Getting married later in life at age 40 (divorced 6 years later) we had a pre nup. I had and still have a baseball card bank account using separate property/ money (my own money prior to marriage). My ex-wife was more interested in our house in Los Angeles and other Real Estate I own that appreciated significantly. She wasn't interested or didn't think the baseball cards were worth pursuing and compared to the RE they were not. I am remarried for good, hopefully but still use separate property/ money that goes through my baseball card bank account. The value of cards is such these days that it would be a real bummer to fight over cards in addition to houses. In general divorce sucks and usually nobody wins.

[The Detroit Collector]

My marriage is an open book. She knows I love to collect and doesn't have a problem with it. She doesn't know much if anything about my collection. I've tried to show her some stuff I think is cool, but it doesn't impress her. She only knows a few of the big-name guys. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Mantle and Miguel Cabrera (because I am a huge fanboy). Thats pretty much the extent of her sports knowledge.