What do you guys do with your thousands of common cards? Especially from the 90's...

MachoMuchacho

I am no pro collector, but I have about 20,000 common cards from growing up. I have about gone through all of them and pulled my stars/semi-stars. I don't want to get rid of them b/c I see many PSA 10 commons going for decent money. My wife wants them out of the way. I've held her off as long as I can....almost. I still have tricks up my sleeves. What do you guys do with yours? I can give them to the local Goodwill or something, but what other tips do you all have?

cravetopps

I keep mine in a closet, in shrink wrap or cases, not to be opened in my lifetime. And, my fiancee is smart enough never to hassle me about them.

rube26105

metalmike is looing for basketball cards to send to his sister in cincinatti,shes a schoolteacher there and gives em to the kids, i could fix him up with baseball or football,but they dont like them he said, basketball is their thing!
randy

RipublicaninMass

I TRY trading out team lots for Red Sox, i would rather have a monster box of red sox than yankees!

Brian48

BobaFett72

they make excellent kindling.

i have 10,000 1989 topps commons in my basement....gonna burn them up in a bonfire!

mercurynut

I use the Yankee cards to start the BBQ.

clayshooter22

I shoot a lot of shotgun shells and I put the cards in the shotgun shell case boxes, about 1200 per. I pull the stars out but leave most of the semi-stars in. My wife sells them at her annual garage sale for $5 each and they are typically gobbled up the first hour she puts them out. I make space and she gets the $5...something about that doesn't add up but she never complains when I buy wax anymore....

joestalin

Kevin

metalmike

Try calling your local school board and /or school and tell them you'd like to donate them to any teachers that would like to use them as incentives. Goodwill is a good choice also but they will sell them off for whatever they can get for them. Either way get a receipt and you can use fair market value to take off your taxes. Mike

Estil

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ebayaddict

Put about 25-40 cards in a team bag and give them away at Halloween , kids love that stuff. Besides it adds up quickly you can get rid of 500-2000 cards easy...............I like to do this when i have commons.