Will Anyone Inherit Your Passion?

[Orioles1954]

Honestly, I plan on selling my collection when I'm in my 60s and use the proceeds to go on multiple foreign missions for my church. That has been a plan of mine for several years. (I'm 34 now) I really like my baseball collection, but I'm not emotionally attached to it.

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Originally Posted by Orioles1954

Honestly, I plan on selling my collection when I'm in my 60s and use the proceeds to go on multiple foreign missions for my church. That has been a plan of mine for several years. (I'm 34 now) I really like my baseball collection, but I'm not emotionally attached to it.

That's awesome!

[usernamealreadytaken]

I will have to give instructions to my wife on how to sell my cards. She would likely sell a T206 Uzit on ebay with a fuzzy picture of the front and describe it as "Old Baseball Card" starting at $.01 with no reserve...

[mintacular]

No, I don't think it will, but this thread just gave me an idea for a name my auction house if I get there: Mintacular's 'Inherited Passion' Cards, etc." (MIPCE pronounced 'Mip-kee')

[B O'Brien]

I told my wife that if I have to go up on the mantle unexpectedly, she has to go through my email and find Craig W.
Bob

[Anthony S.]

I'm going to shoot for a Young Frankenstein situation. Twenty years after I'm gone I want them to disinter my body. My bony hands will still be clutching a shoebox full of cards resting on my chest. Whichever descendant is brave (or disrespectful) enough to wrestle the shoebox from clutches, gets the cards.

Of course that box will only contain my 1981 Donruss and Fleer commons. The less greedy descendants will then share the good stuff.

[glchen]

My son is 9 months old. I'm going to start putting slabs (of commons of course) in his toy box, to get him hooked when he's young!

[BCauley]

I want my son to inherit my passion for the cards I collect but I surely will not force it on him. If, as he gets older, he has no interest, then I'll sell off and go on a nice vacation with the wife. If he has an interest, it's his.

However, I did get a kick out him wanting one of my cards as I was dissolving my modern stuff. He chose a '93 UD SP Kevin Reimer and made sure it was at his spot next to his plate at the dinner table for about a week. I was going to keep that card but then the wife tossed it the other day.