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You know you're a hardcore collector when ...
jrdolan
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As I was cleaning my office (card room), for some reason Jeff Foxworthy's "You know you're a redneck ..." routines came to mind. I thought there should be such a list for card collectors. I'll start it off with a couple. Please exercise your wit!
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You know you're a hardcore collector when ...
You have enough bubble wrap to ship Rhode Island to Pluto without a scratch.
Your wife asks you how she looks and you respond "I'd say maybe 8, but let me get my loupe."
(If you're really far gone, your reply might be "Do I know you?")
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You know you're a hardcore collector when ...
You have enough bubble wrap to ship Rhode Island to Pluto without a scratch.
Your wife asks you how she looks and you respond "I'd say maybe 8, but let me get my loupe."
(If you're really far gone, your reply might be "Do I know you?")
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Your wife asks you how she looks and you respond "I'd say maybe 8, but let me get my loupe."
(If you're really far gone, your reply might be "Do I know you?") >>
<< <i>As I handed my business card to a client the other day, I noticed my latest batch of business cards were slightly O/C...
yeah,
speaking of business cards...
I really get bothered when someone gives me their
card and it is not a new, mint card....
If the corners are soft or there is a crease, it makes
me not even want to do business with them!
Is it just me?
You know you're a hardcore collector when ... You get royally ticked when you buy a new car and they don't take PayPal.
<< <i> You know you're a hardcore collector when ... >>
The Post Office makes your address a separate zip code!
There's more checklists than photos of your kids in your wallet.
When the UPS driver gives YOU a gift at Christmas!
Mike
edit grammar
<< <i><< You know you're a hardcore collector when ... >> >>
Your best friend says he "didn't get any" and you think he's talkin about UPS deliveries.
Mastronet has YOU on speed dial!
Mike
<< <i>BKAH, I think you just gave PSA an idea for a new item to grade and slab.
You know you're a hardcore collector when ... You get royally ticked when you buy a new car and they don't take PayPal. >>
i thought about business cards a couple months ago.. i was going through some old papers and I found one of my dad's old business cards, and the thought crossed my mind to have PSA slab it for me..
When you have more baseball cards displayed than pictures of family...
when people ask what's new in your life, you always reply with the latest card you won on ebay....
When you put your credit cards in card savers...
when you possess an MBNA visa card featuring MLB theme, like that Don Mattingly Visa Card
when you have MLB theme on your personal checks... [mine has the NY Yankees Logo]
when you hold up your precious Tom Seaver rookie card to your non-collecting friends and tell them "look how beautiful this is" and they give you a funny look thinking you were showing going to them a Pamela Anderson or something....
BST: Tennessebanker, Downtown1974, LarkinCollector, nendee
Whn you start assessing EVERYTHING on a scale of Poor to Gem Mint. "How was your day?" ... "Oh, I guess about EX-MT with a qualifier."
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When you put your credit cards in card savers...
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Actually my insurance and registration are in a top loader in my truck. You should have seen the look on the cops face the last time I got pulled over. Pure puzzlement.
when you plan your lunch hour around post office locations.
when your feeback rating supercedes your job performance review.
when you know who kevin burge is.
<< <i> You know you're a hardcore collector when ... >>
You plan your vacation around card shows and sporting events.
Run out at lunchtime to check the local target/walmart for Heritage!
Drive 30 miles out of your way to stop at a Toys r us for starting lineups (oldie)
Mike
<< <i>when you arrive late at the bar because you had to give ebay one final look >>
<< <i>When you're grumpy all day because no bubble envelopes were in your mailbox.
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i can relate to that, as well.
S.
Get outta town!!!
<< <i>You know you're a hardcore collector when ... >>
You are fast at work during the day and you get "heritage SP" flashbacks!
Mike
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<< <i>Scumbi, would you mind posting your hottest Tidrow card? Unless that would be too, um, private. >>
JR
I was affraid to ask!
Mike
Groucho Marx
Best guys,
S.
You know you're a hardcore collector when...
God grants you three wishes, and two of them are T206 Wagner and 52 Topps Mantle. The third, as an afterthought, is peace on earth and an end to suffering everywhere.
The first thing that you read is this PSA message board.
The first thing that you think of when someone spies a "10" is a baseball card.
You know what a "snipe" is.
You know that OC is not to be confused with Opie.
Foreplay could be looking at your card collection.
Looking for a set doesn't mean a day at the beach.
You know that "Mint" is not always something to eat.
You know that "Cracking out" is not necessarily getting stoned.
I am sure that I will think of more later.
Vic
When your mailman and your stay at home wife seem to be best friends.
you can't remember your anniversary, but you can recite several set checklists in numberical order.
you annotate auction catalogues.
Nick
Reap the whirlwind.
Need to buy something for the wife or girlfriend? Check out Vintage Designer Clothing.
Todd
I've been late to dinner/meetings because I had to check ebay one last time, I'm grumpy when I don't get bubble mailers, I've planned lunch around trips to the post office.
Here's a few more for you.
You know the shipping times to different zones to/from your house
You know the exact price of shipping at USPS for the bubble mailers
You know the requirements for Delivery Confirmation/Insurance etc
You know what "PackSearcher" means
You know how to tell if the the ninja-looters hit the retail packs already
When someone says SP you think of #398 Zack Grienke not the length of a VHS tape or a cable sports award.
Auto does not mean car
OC is not just a tv show on Fox
MC is isn't just the guy talking at your dinner banquet
PD does NOT mean Paid!
Everything is on a scale from 1-10
using terms like SMR and Pop Report make perfect sense to you
My eBay Store
BigCrumbs! I made over $250 last year!
...when you spend all Sunday morning at a show haggling with every dealer over prices and then go to JC Penney to buy a couple new shirts and they don't have price tags so you ask the clerk how much they are and he says $19 and your first thought is to say "I'll give you $25 for both of them."
...you get your savings account bank statement and see it hasn't grown in 3 months and yet your ebay feedback has grown by 78 in the same time and you cannot reconcile the two.
2005 Origins Old Judge Brown #/20 and Black 1/1s, 2000 Ultimate Victory Gold #/25
2004 UD Legends Bake McBride autos & parallels, and 1974 Topps #601 PSA 9
Rare Grady Sizemore parallels, printing plates, autographs
Nothing on ebay
...it pains you to think of the cards you could buy with each month's mortgage payment.
....you look at the corners of your pop-tart longer than you should.
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definitely a PSA 8 (ST).
<< <i>you are watching "Some Came Running" (1959 Sinatra & Martin, d. Vincent Minelli) on TCM during lunch and for the 20,000th time you affirm with yourself you would give a kidney for a time machine to go back to 1959 for the sole purpose of buying cards. >>
How I identify with this one not to mention ALL the rest.
Now collecting:
Topps Heritage
1957 Topps BB Ex+-NM
All Yaz Items 7+
Various Red Sox
Did I leave anything out?
<< <i>....you look at the corners of your pop-tart longer than you should. >>
I can tell you that PSA is very tough on grading Pop-Tarts, so don't bother.
You change your meditation mantra from oohhmm, oohhmm to nnoollaann, nnoollaann.
Your wife asks you to bring home milk and bread, but instead you bring home sausages and hot dogs because there are some greasy baseball cards in the packages.
You have one closet that has a top shelf full of Wheaties boxes. Once a year you check them for maggots.
You have a pile of sportscard mags next to the crapper. Maybe one Time magazine in there that you put on the top of the pile when you are expecting guests.
You can't locate your wedding album, but you can put your finger on your auto'd 8x10 binder in less than 5 seconds.
If a card slips out of your hand, you dive for it before it hits the floor, like it's a Mingh dynasty vase.
You have 18 pairs of cheap sneakers that you never wear, but you have a use for all 18 boxes.
You have to keep changing the toploaders on your "Dirt" Tidrow cards.
Unfocused, impulsive collector of everything ...
example:
$500 for new alternator and battery for car => damn could have bought a 72 Ryan PSA 9 and a 90 OPC Ryan PSA 9 for that.
Scott Jeanblanc
jeanblanc@iconnect.net
Ebay UserId : sjeanblanc
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Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94)
...your nighttime fantasies involve finding a unopened carton of "Sweet Caporal"s dated "1910" that some oldtimer just dropped off to the local antique store currently being manned by the teenage daughter of the owner who is out on lunch break.
...you don't even have to pause when looking at a 1955 or 1956 Topps to figure out which year it is.
...you have a box of worthless, beat-up cards from your youth and you can't bear to part with them no matter how desperately you need the closet space.
...your dad calls up and says he found some old cards in a box, and with just a one sentence description from him you not only know what year and manufacturer they are, but whether they'll even be worth grading.
...you ever traded for or away a 1986 Donruss Canseco for a vintage Topps card of a superstar.
...you know, by heart, the pose on every Mickey Mantle regular issue Topps card from 1952 to 1969.
You start to recycle toploaders, even if they have goo on them from somebody else you bought a card from them in.
You could care less if your house rots, but you buy a dehumidifier for your "card room."
You start pulling down the blinds in your "card room", like some kind of paranoid crack head.
Your adolecent children make further disparaging commentary about you to their freinds, now including, that you sit around and play with your cards.
You keep rearranging any space that's left in your house so you can fit more cards into it.
You keep looking at your stuff, thinking that you have overlooked a "Holy Grail" card in one of the boxes. You swear to yourself that you have some, but just can't find them.
You....
Unfocused, impulsive collector of everything ...
When you can plan vacations from the "rewards" you get from the credit card you put your baseball cards on.
When you print out this thread and sit down with a highlighter.
when you know your friends' collecting interests, but not what they look like.
when you have memorized the shipping charges of most of the major card dealers on eBay.
when you report keyword spamming to eBay.
when you buy back issues of price guides and card magazines.
Nick
Reap the whirlwind.
Need to buy something for the wife or girlfriend? Check out Vintage Designer Clothing.
<< <i>when you know your friends' collecting interests, but not what they look like. >>
Nick
that is really cool and TRUE!
When you have paypal on speed-dial!
When you come home blitzed but insist on taking one more look at ebay auctions.
When you know ALL the SP numbers from this years Heritage but can't remember to pick up the dry cleaning for your wife!
the last two are recent occurences.
Mike