Does Anyone Still Just Collect Cards?

[steve B]

I must have been busy in March, I didn't reply originally.

I'm a bit of both.
Nearly all my cards are not graded. For many of them it's mostly pointless.

I do have a few graded ones, and have sent some in.
I only sort of thought about value when I did, aside from a few modern cards I was going to sell.

My wife and I have talked about this a bit.
She thinks I like the hunt more than the catching. And that's sort of true.
It is nice to see cards I thought were really nice get recognition of that through grading.

When we talked about value I explained it as "It's sort of a hunting game, and the value of the catches are just the way of keeping score. "
So more points for finding something at a low price, or something that is special in some way. That goes across all my collecting.