You know you are a card junkie when.....

[carrigansghost]

Chuck, don't grade them, just collect them all. Now they may not be in your collection long, but you once had them.

Rawn

[packs]

...every time you pay rent you think of the card you could have bought with that money.

[joebrandon1977]

When working in corporate America and you're in a boardroom meeting implimenting a new rating system for vendors; and you reference baseball card grading and the benefits of having 1/2 point grades.

[sbfinley]

A couple that have happened to me recently:

1. Paying X amount for a card that you "just have to get" and then within the month selling it for 85% of X amount to fund the purchase of another card that you "just have to get."

2. Whenever my wife and I get into a fight and she deems herself to be in the wrong she will buy something off of my ebay watch list to apologize. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's pretty awesome.

3. I'm that guy that still carries cash so when I stop to pump gas I usually go inside to pay. To prevent being that guy who forgets what pump he's at and having to walk to the window or back outside, when I stop at the pump I mentally attach the pump number I am at with a jersey number. (e.g. If I'm on pump three I'm parked at Babe Ruth.) Last week I asked for $20 on Stan Musial. The look the lady gave me was priceless. It wasn't the first time it has happened, and probably won't be the last.