Agree, very good thread.... I always wondered if I was in the minority with having as many lulls and off and on periods. I've collected this way since I first start around 1991/92 when I was a kid. I've always had periods of heavy collecting , light collecting, and no collecting.
I think my first big "no-collecting" period was after the strike-shortened 1994 season. (Looking back, I wish this would have made me all but stop collecting new cards all together and get into vintage but it didn't.) I was still a kid and then Ripkens' streak reinvigorated me in 1995. Then my Yankees went on a tear from 96-2001 ( 2001 we were robbed! One of the great W.S. ever!)
I was off and on through college. Then in 2004, I think, I started really getting into prewar and found this board after inheriting my D381 collection from my great-grandfather.
Since then I've been more focused and enthusiastic about collecting and have had fewer and shorter lulls but I still get them. I think Im just emerging from a rather intensive period of buying (for me). I think a lull is starting for me right now, for how long remains to be seen. Work is really busy on the farm (planting etc...) Also in the short times I do get off there's so much more stuff I'd like to be doing in the summer. Fishing/boating, trying to get to the occasional Yankee game and occasional round of paintball, BBQ'ing/Drinking, sleeping/watching playoff basketball and Yankee baseball etc....(Almost forgot fantasy baseball, which occupies maybe an hour of my day average.)
I have too much stuff to do and not enough time for it all. One thing is for certain and that's I always come back into it. And usually hard!
No one happens to have any of the remaining 8 D381's I need out there huh? Didn't think so.... That would drag me back full force into the hobby again in a heartbeat.....
I'm still monitoring ebay and the B/S/T so we shall see what happens. It's nice to know I'm not alone with lulls.....
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05-23-2009, 10:43 AM
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