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What to do with thousands of common cards from the early 90s?

pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭✭
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I was big into collecting baseball cards in the early 90s (1990-1993). I now have thousands of common cards sitting in my closet.

Does anyone know of an easy way to get rid of these? Maybe by selling, giving to needy kids, making card houses, going to Walmart and pinning them to bike wheels... something??

Let's just brainstorm! No idea is too crazy.

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  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    give to goodwill or burn in 55 gallon drum stove for firestart like i do, i got 500,000 im going thru now picking out good stuff for 1.00, rest, we'll seeimage
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    I trade people"s favorite teams for red sox, if you are picking through them, granted I may not have your team left.
  • RoarIn84RoarIn84 Posts: 859 ✭✭
    we all meet on a baseball diamond with our monster boxes and have a little 'disco demolition' night of our own...
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  • slantycouchslantycouch Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭
    I just went through the same thing with my boxes of junk. Ended up listing them for free on Craigs List. A father brought over his two young boys and they were excited as hell to walk away will tons of stuff to go through.

    Edit: I even threw in a box of semi-star stuff when I saw how excited they were. Didn't want it to be a bust for them so I hoped it would help.
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Here ya go:

    What to do with thousands of common cards

    Take care,

    Mike
    Buying US Presidential autographs
  • BlackborderBlackborder Posts: 2,797 ✭
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  • StopYurWhiningStopYurWhining Posts: 719
    burn, baby burn! it's a disco Inferno.
  • bigwillibigwilli Posts: 910
    Give them to me , i need lots of commoms from those years . I hate leaving started sets unfinished.....image
    A collector of all things Braves
    Always looking for Chipper Jones cards.
    Im a very focused collector of cards from 1909 - 2012...LOL
  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,225 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wouldn't mind having the insert cards if you got any. The mid-1990s after all was the Golden Age of Inserts. image
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  • PoppaJPoppaJ Posts: 2,818 ✭
    One of my son's friends got lucky by finding a local buyer of commons/semi-stars/stars that were used as fillers for "Huge Lots of Sportscards" that he sells on eBay.

    The guy paid him $15-$20 for each 5,000 count box of commons and $25-$40 for each box of semi-star/stars.

    You might try your luck in your locale.

    Poppaj

  • qualitycardsqualitycards Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭
    Donate them.
    Here are some choices that I have used in the past
    Salvation Army
    Childrens Hospital
    Veterans Hospital
    Marine's Toys For Tots
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