Turn Back the Clock...

Guru

If you could go back and tell your kid self anything about collecting or your collection then...what would you say?

al032184

Forget cards, start collecting gold and silver coins.

rcmb3220

Pass up those 87 Topps baseball cards at Woolworths and buy all those discounted 86 Fleer basketball packs and boxes.

MULLINS5

Stop collecting, go start a company and call it PSA.

handyman

"YAHOO"

MULLINS5

Wait, I changed my mind.

I'd tell that kid not to buy "reprint" Gretzky rookies to fill in his sets, because, even though you're trying to do a good thing, a small handful of people will hold it against you, bully you and try to screw up your personal life because they have no lives of their own. Knowing me, I'd probably not listen

begsu1013

I wouldn't listen, even to myself.

but the 86 fleer basketball thing would probably be what i'd say...

itzagoner

eat more Post cereal!

Baez578

Step away from the late 80's Donruss!

KendallCat

Don't open anything - just save it in the boxes.

Anything with Mantle on it grab it and put away.

See above for 86 Fleer basketball.

Go to place outside of Boston a few days before Alan Rosen and buy up all the 1952 Topps you can find

BaltimoreYankee

Grab all of those 1971 Topps rack packs and don't open 'em.

TheMick6

As a kid I was more concerned with quantity over quality. I'd rather have a hundred ok cards instead of one great one. I'd sell everything I had and get every high grade vintage card I could afford. According to the collecting bible during my younger years of collecting my favorite all time set (56 topps) could be had in mint condition for under 4 grand!

bishop

I thought this was going to be about the Topps 1989 Turn Back The Clock baseball card subset.

I would go on a buying spree using this

billwaltonsbeard

<< <i>Pass up those 87 Topps baseball cards at Woolworths and buy all those discounted 86 Fleer basketball packs and boxes. >>



I've had this thought about a million times....I've had dreams about it on several occasions.

The only thing that makes me feel any better about it is the fact that those 86 Fleers would have gotten the same treatment as the 87 Topps baseball; stacked haphazardly in a shoebox. Those beautiful red corners wouldn't have stood a chance.

summerof68

I'd tell myself not to open all those 1968 baseball racks that I purchased with my paper route money, but instead to save them unopened--especially the one that had Seaver on top

DrBuster

From my teens: buy all the mint 52 mantles that booked for beckett hi under $100 that you can find.

gemint

I'd tell myself to save up all money possible and bet it all on Villanova to win the 1985 NCAA championship at the beginning of the '84-'85 season.

byronscott4ever

Buy old unopened product, don't open it and let it gain in value. As for all the 1987 and on product in baseball I want to break? I'll tell myself it'll get much cheaper in years to come.

Ironmanfan

start & maintain your collection with a focus

IMF

milbroco

I would tell myself don't collect the extra pounds. Collect the fruit and veggies and stay slim. And, go to college. Maybe I wouldn't be unemployed if I did.

Card wise, Buy those '86 Fleer Basketball!

Robert

3BoyzTrading

"Apple" at $14 a share

MULLINS5

<< <i>I would tell myself don't collect the extra pounds. Collect the fruit and veggies and stay slim. And, go to college. Maybe I wouldn't be unemployed if I did.

Card wise, Buy those '86 Fleer Basketball!

Robert >>



I graduated in 2012. Bachelor degree pretty much worthless. Only worth getting me into grad school or another certification program. Job wise, doesn't help.

Dsmith28

<< <i>start & maintain your collection with a focus

IMF >>


What's your method of maintaining a focus?

ashabby

Don't put the cards in the spokes of the bike. The sound effect is going to cost you big time later.