OK, put down your silly little pieces of cardboard and paper and click this, right now.

lordmarcovan

Why would you collect pieces of paper or cardboard that are less than a hundred years old when you could be collecting proper little round pieces of METAL which are more than a THOUSAND years old?

Oh, well, I guess you won't want to click THIS link, then.


Eh, I kid you, cardpeoples, but I do have a confession to make. I was almost sucked into your paper world last month.

I got a wild hair all of a sudden and thought maybe I'd put together a scrapbook of creepy, weird, disturbing, and quaint old magazine ads like these. You know: Santa Claus smoking Chesterfields, doctors recommending Camel cigarettes, Lysol being touted for feminine hygiene (!), etc. I found a lot of cool (well, creepy) ones on eBay and had them in my watch list. Seemed a reasonably affordable collection.

But then, thank goodness, I saw sense and restrained myself. If I spent money on all that creepy old paper, there would be less coins in my collection. I might be a contrarian, against-the-grain, eccentric sort of guy, but that was just too topsy-turvy a situation to imagine.

Edited to add a winkey-smiley so y'all don't all suddenly gang up on me, pick up your collections, and decide to use them as weapons.

I'd hate to die of a thousand paper cuts. *guhh!*

Then again, if all of y'all ganged up on me, there would be what, three people? Five? Six?

(Edited to add another winkey-smiley so I can get a head start and dash back to Coin Land before you know what hit you.)

nopenotyet

duh

alnavman

some people collect metal, others paper and the really smart one's collect benjamin's!!

al.

Mapleleaf

I used to collect coins but realized that paper is where the true rarity is due to it's fragility. Coins can lay in the ground for thousands of years, paper rarely survives a childhood.

LochNESS

That's the same reason I like some comic books, but no matter what you collect once you put it in plastic it's the same difference. But that's why moderns aren't worth as much and probably never will be. Older stuff had to last longer until slabs were invented.

BillyKingsley

Hey Rob, I have gotten paper cuts off of cards- I still remember (and have in my collection) the first one I got cut on...hurts like heck. The worst though was circa 2003 when I got one off my card listing...right on the middle front of my right pointer finger...that was nasty! If I touched my finger in the wrong way it would hurt for months after that.