OMG how addicting is this.

Dgilbert

So I recently, (aside from one investment trading card purchase 32 yrs ago) started a trading card collection. Now I can say that I am hooked. It seems to be a part of my daily life. At some point each day I am either sorting through my collection, going on line to visit ebay trading cards, logging into the collectors forum and or PSA sales realized/ pop report. I've even started making a card display case in my workshop, it should be finished by tomorrow evening. Am I truly now a nerd lmao.

threeofsix

@Dgilbert Welcome to the club! Now, let me go through the 12 steps of collecting with you….Ha!!

pab1969

From one nerd to another, welcome and enjoy the hobby.

craig44

welcome aboard! I have found myself obsessed with this hobby since around 1987/88

jordangretzkyfan

You’re in good company here. I started collecting in 1986 and never stopped. It’s good to be a nerd!

Vagabond

Few things get me excited as seeing grown men on cardboard

Welcome.

DBesse27

@craig44 said:
welcome aboard! I have found myself obsessed with this hobby since around 1987/88

Same here.

JBrules

We are here to feed the addiction. Welcome aboard!!!

thedutymon11

@Vagabond said:
Few things get me excited as seeing grown men on cardboard

Welcome.

Afternoon,

This has got to be wrong on some level! My preference is Grown Women in......................................!

YeeHaw!

Neil

emar

Welcome & enjoy! The hardest part is staying within a budget. It can easily get out of control.

Dgilbert

1951WheatiesPremium

@Dgilbert said:

How addicting?

Very.

Started out saying just the Yankees big 3…

…then just the stars…

…then before you knew it…

…I was 10-11 cards away from completion on a beautiful set: a rare Cuban issuance known as the 1946 Propagandas Montiel Los Reyes Del Deporte, the Kings of Sport, though the remaining wants are proving very tough.

Welcome, and by the way, that Thor does look like it possesses ten qualities. Good luck!

Dgilbert

@1951WheatiesPremium said:

Welcome, and by the way, that Thor does look like it possesses ten qualities. Good luck!

Thanks for the Thor comment. I just sent it to PSA as well as 4 others who look great as well but the pics I took don't do them justice do I didn't post. Your Yankees big 3 seems to have grown haha best of luck with the remaining ones..

PastaBoy

@emar said:
Welcome & enjoy! The hardest part is staying within a budget. It can easily get out of control.

I can relate to this! Been back collecting just about a year now (coincides with my 1st post here actually) and my wife hasn't killed me as of yet while the $ just keeps exiting - so far so good though! Have fun. I surely am!

Though still have not graded anything. Was just a bad time to get back into the hobby if interested in that aspect. I sort of swerved a bit and bought some unopened things too. Have a closet of things for saving or for those lazy evenings when just ripping something would be fun. Starting to need a bigger closet though. Just one side...instead of wife's clothes we now have my card walk-in.

Still married!

jordangretzkyfan

Careful, what starts with one closet quickly turns into a room filled with shelves of unopened 🤣

1959

I'm addicted to brake fluid. I can stop anytime I want.

Dgilbert

@1959 said:
I'm addicted to brake fluid. I can stop anytime I want.

don't stop now no one likes a quitter...

Mikeygiggs_336699

@jordangretzkyfan said:
Careful, what starts with one closet quickly turns into a room filled with shelves of unopened 🤣

Any OPC Baseball hiding in there LOL!!

Dgilbert

@PastaBoy said:

Have a closet of things for saving or for those lazy evenings when just ripping something would be fun. Starting to need a bigger closet though. Just one side...instead of wife's clothes we now have my card walk-in.

hummm a closeted collection. Sad to "be in the closet" set them free to live and be displayed haha.