What do you do with your Common Cards?

[pwaldo]

I use to keep them in huge boxes until a local hosipital was collecting cards to give to kids in the children's hosipital.

I went in there and gave them a couple boxes of commons and they were so thankful. They couldn't believe all those cards came from 1 person.

Whenever I get commons I just keep them in a box until it gets full and then I make another stop at the hospital.

It's a win-win situation. I get rid of cards I don't want that are taking up space and the kids at the hospital enjoy going through the cards.

So what does everybody else do with their common cards?

[radioheadfloyd]

That is a good idea... I just have tons of 3200 count boxes full sitting in the spare bedroom.

[IggyWH]

My buddy and I when we were young used to collect commons and play a game with them. We'd throw them in a box and pull them out at random. We'd then use 5 statistics (avg, HR's, RBI's, SB's, and as a loser category, most strikeouts). The winner would get both cards and then whoever had the least ammount of cards at the end had to pay for ice cream. Now since I really don't have many, I just throw them away.

[podstock]

pwaldo -- wow, now that's one FANTASTIC way to give joys to the kids at the hospital - Kudos to you!

I just stuff mine all in a large box.

[stkmtimo]

Same here. I used to play a game with my friend where we would randomly select a card (common) and then take a shot in basketball. Whoever made the shot if the other missed would keep the card. Pretty cool. Kudos, pwaldo. That's real nice.

Tim

[pwaldo]

Originally posted by podstock
pwaldo -- wow, now that's one FANTASTIC way to give joys to the kids at the hospital - Kudos to you!

I just stuff mine all in a large box.

Yeah I use to keep them in large boxes as well then I was running out of so I wanted to get rid of them. Then I saw an ad in the newspaper saying they were looking for cards for the children's hospital. So I was like I'll just give them the cards. The cards were not worth the space and so I gave them the cards. I never would have thought of it if it wasn't for that ad though.

[stkmtimo]

I think it's great that you do that. Congrats.

Tim

[FineBrian69]

Stick'em in a box that goes in the closet and never sees the light of day outside of adding more commons.

[ebayej]

Throw commons away? Never do that someone will always find enjoyment, Unfornatatly there are no children hospitals around here that take cards so what i do is i keep um in boxes and then go through them a few years later and complete the sets it gives you something to do

[pwaldo]

Yeah the worst thing you can do is throw them away. You'll always find someone that wants them. People make sets with them or kids like to collect them.