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04-15-2008, 02:20 PM #11
your wife is making you sell your cards?..
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04-19-2008, 10:11 PM #12
Thank you. Finally after reading through this thread someone finally asked the question to the answer I want. How? Why? How?
It doesn't sound like you want to get rid of YOUR cards.
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04-19-2008, 10:32 PM #13
O.k. So I got on the site to check a few things and noticed that a few posts have been made. Thanks for the posts. As for the question about my wife. We have been married for three years. I have spent a lot of money, a lot of times. Last month I spent about 200 bucks and we didn't have the extra money for it. So since she has put up with it many, many, many times, she had finally had enough and told me to get rid of them or she would. thats pretty much the jist of it. She actually wanted to post on here and maybe I'll let her so you can all here how upset she really is about it.
She is a great, great, great wife and I could not ask for more from her. It is my fault that this happened and that is why I am taking the respnsibility of getting rid of them.
thanks again guys.
chad
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04-19-2008, 11:02 PM #14
Yeah you smell so bad your making my nose grow
No, seriously it is a fine line. Sometimes your card(s) can be worth a bunch but not collectible to anyone but you and that guy in the Yukon.
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04-19-2008, 11:05 PM #15
I understand you and my wife understands yours.
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04-19-2008, 11:22 PM #16
Yeah, I'm sure my wife would agree w/his too.
When I first reentered the hobby back in my mid-20s, my lovely new bride
just could not understand my fascination w/cardboard.
And like our friend here, I often spent too much and my wife and I had our
unpleasant moments "discussing" it.
Over the years we've both grown. Me in financial maturity (meaning that I learned to only spend what I could afford), and my wife in her understanding that there are alot worse "habits" that I could be spending my money on.
Such as on-line gambling, smoking cigs, and/or drinking alcohol. None of which I do.
Our friend's solution is not to throw away his cards. To me that's the silly thing. Keep the cards, put them away, don't throw them away.
Or, sell them on eBay...but believe me...there's no way those sell prices will be pleasing.
Okay...enough from me.
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04-19-2008, 11:55 PM #17
I gotta say, I still don't understand getting rid of the ones you already have.
When I got back into the hobby, like a lot of people, I started spending quite a bit of money on it. But we had money then, so it wasn't a big deal. Then, with a new baby, moving to lower paying jobs, but still having our old mortgage while we try to sell our house, things got tight. So I cut back tremendously on my spending. I used to get a box or two a month, now I'm lucky if I get a couple of packs a month. I've even had to cut back on the number of trades I make because shipping prices still add up.
But you're not spending money on cards you already have. At worst, let them sit in a box and you may be able to get back into things a little later. I can understand selling some of them, but throwing them away? If she's so upset about the amount of money you spent on them, why wouldn't she want to try to get some of that money back? Throwing them away is pointless and wasteful....
Just my thoughts.
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04-20-2008, 12:32 AM #18
I don't get the whole BV deal myself. So your telling me if a card is worth say 10 bucks book value, but on Ebay it sits there in the Buy It Now price of a dollar plus shipping for years, that someone with that card still expects me to pay 10 bucks for it? I usually don't go by book value, and sometimes I don't even go by Ebay value if I want the card bad enough. I have done a few trades on here where I trade a rookie card book valued at 10 bucks for a rookie card at 2 bucks, but go on Ebay and they both sell for the same amount. I also have sent people offers on cards I liked, and being nearly 16, I don't have the most money in the world, so I offer em what I have, and they tell me "This is worth 30 bucks, and your offering me 5 for it? That's not a fair deal...your trying to scam me and rip me off." But its simple...thats how much I'm willing to pay for it, if you want that 30 bucks, just tell me no deal and you can hold onto that card for years waiting for that 30 dollar offer that will probably never come along.
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04-20-2008, 12:28 PM #19
I understnd how your wife feels. My wife is the same way when I buy World War II Aviation books. I recently spent $250 for the 1977 Topps FB set and my my wife was cool about it as she loves collecting Football cards herself. She's like me when I was 7-10 years old. She likes the new stuff hwoever, maninly the 2006 Donruss Classics and I like the old stuff. Anyway with me buying books, she finally realized that there are a lot worse things one can spend their money on. I'm lucky though as my wife is one of the very few who likes Football cards.
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04-21-2008, 10:18 AM #20
I feel you with the wife thing...my wife HATED this hobby and would give me so much grief everytime I bought any packs/singles...then, one day we "compromised" (that thing married couples are supposed to do) - she doesn't really have any hobbies, BUT she (like most women) likes to have her hair/nails done, go tanning, and occasionally go shopping.
So I told her, "..look - you can do all your stuff and I can buy some cards, ok?"
It was like a light switch - now, she actually buys me cards!!!
Her "making" you sell them though? That's not cool...tell her to get rid of all her makeup and shoes and see what happens...
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