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Dodged a real bullet today...

scmavlscmavl Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭
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I work in a fairly large old building. There is a big storage room downstairs that hardly anyone uses but me (I'm the office manager). Mostly holiday decorations, extra paint cans, boxes, etc... When I was working on my home music studio I moved a few boxes of cards out to have more room in there until I was done remodeling. Mostly unsorted opened packs, lots of 80's to modern. So I put them in the storage room at work. Fast forward to today...

A customer scuffed one of my employees office door, so I went down to the storage room to get some touch up paint. The paint was gone. Then I looked around. LOTS of things were gone. Apparently someone else in the building needed to move some furniture down there, so they had some people come down and get rid of stuff. INCLUDING MY CARD BOXES. The lucky part about it is they did that THIS MORNING. So I ran to where the trash is stored inside before it's taken away nightly by the cleaning crew. There I found, among other things, a box I didn't know I'd put down there containing: An unopened '67 Topps cello, unopened '73 Topps pack showing Killebrew (both PSA), 1/3 of a box of unopened '79 cellos, and a stack of vintage cards in toploaders, including '60s Mantle, Clemente, and other HOFers... A Munson rookie, and some newer RCs (UD Griffey, R Johnson, etc).

WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?! If I hadn't gone down there TODAY to get paint, they all would've been thrown away. Oh, and there was a case of champagne too. Did these people not even look at what they were trashing?!? So I learned my lesson and everything is now back safe & sound at home.
2.5 is pretty much my speed.

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  • MphilkingMphilking Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭
    WHEW!!!!!! Glad you got them.
  • esquiresportsesquiresports Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭
    Wow. That is crazy. Your lucky day!
    Always buying 1971 OPC Baseball packs.
  • captainthreeputtcaptainthreeputt Posts: 1,235 ✭✭
    Head straight to Vegas Baby!
    1911 C55 hockey
    1935 National Chicle
    1961 Golden Press
    1962 Bell Brand Dodgers
    Top 200 cards in the hobby
    Top 250 cards in the hobby
    All time lakers
    All time Dodgers
    1957 Disney Characters
    1965 Donruss Disneyland
    1966 Get Smart
    Brian
  • JohnnyDJohnnyD Posts: 521 ✭✭
    I hope you liberated the case of champagne....
  • prthdprthd Posts: 1,323
    First thing that popped in my head was the old story of Topps throwing cases of 1952 in the water.
    Looking for 1950 Bowman football PSA 7's
  • brendanb438brendanb438 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭
    I am wondering what you were thinking putting stuff with that much value into a storage area that any employee in this fairly large building seems to have access to. Sure you were working on the room at home for a music studio, but do you only have 1 room in your home or could you have stored stuff with this much value in what sounds like a box the size of a shoebox somewhere in your house?
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Jarrod, I'm glad you dodged the bullet on this one. I guess next time you'll make sure you know what is in those boxes before putting them anywhere other than your home.
    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • heritageheritage Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>Jarrod, I'm glad you dodged the bullet on this one. I guess next time you'll make sure you know what is in those boxes before putting them anywhere other than your home. >>


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    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • dennis07dennis07 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭
    Wait! What?
    Collecting 1970 Topps baseball
  • scmavlscmavl Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I am wondering what you were thinking putting stuff with that much value into a storage area that any employee in this fairly large building seems to have access to. Sure you were working on the room at home for a music studio, but do you only have 1 room in your home or could you have stored stuff with this much value in what sounds like a box the size of a shoebox somewhere in your house? >>



    Only three people (with master keys) have access to the room. It's never used. This was the only small box, all of the other boxes were quite large.
    2.5 is pretty much my speed.
  • 70ToppsFanatic70ToppsFanatic Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I am wondering what you were thinking putting stuff with that much value into a storage area that any employee in this fairly large building seems to have access to. Sure you were working on the room at home for a music studio, but do you only have 1 room in your home or could you have stored stuff with this much value in what sounds like a box the size of a shoebox somewhere in your house? >>



    Only three people (with master keys) have access to the room. It's never used. This was the only small box, all of the other boxes were quite large. >>



    J,

    Sounds like you may NOT have learned anything from this experience.

    Next time rent a storage unit somewhere (just remember to pay the rent so it doesn't end up
    being a big score for one of the Storage War boys).

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    Dave
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