WHY do we collect?

[Hilfiger1975]

Me like hockey.

LOL! I like your language...he's using too big of words for me...

[Hawksrock0321]

Collecting cards is definitely an addiction. Its a passion that you have. The pure joy of holding something rare in your hands. Its a feeling you just can't explain.

[Hilfiger1975]

Oh, I love these holos on credit cards. I love gold, also.

Here's an idea. Not that great of a picture, though...

[sephiroth]

Are you about to equate collecting with addiction?

If so, I'm fully with you, no jokes.

But absolutely, of course. For me it's pretty clear. Put your energy there, it's a good island, good earth.

But in that island there's an addiction. Is that addiction bad?


Oh come on guys, english is not even my first language, I'm french basically.

[Hilfiger1975]

But absolutely, of course. For me it's pretty clear. Put your energy there, it's a good island, good earth.

But in that island there's an addiction. Is that addiction bad?


Oh come on guys, english is not even my first language, I'm french basically.

[Wickabee]

But absolutely, of course. For me it's pretty clear. Put your energy there, it's a good island, good earth.

But in that island there's an addiction. Is that addiction bad?


Oh come on guys, english is not even my first language, I'm french basically.

It's always been my belief that everyone on Earth is addicted to something to some degree. Of all the possibilities of things to be addicted (heck, of all the things I am addicted to. Smoker over here) collecting cards is a lot easier to say no to when you're out than cigarettes, it doesn't change your behavious like drugs and alcohol.

Addiction often comes out of anger. If that anger gets channeled to an unhealthy place the destructive nature of addiction occurs. Collecting in and of itself can produce problems like overspending and obsession, but when considered against everything else, it's pretty benign.

[sephiroth]

That's the reason I'm doing this. Because I think it's bening.

But what a bizarre thing. Imagine God creating a brain an putting this caracter trait in it.

We are really destined to rule the world with an array of talents like that.

[gfel2795]

That's the reason I'm doing this. Because I think it's bening.

But what a bizarre thing. Imagine God creating a brain an putting this caracter trait in it.

We are really destined to rule the world with an array of talents like that.

CMB for the Shanahan RC..........lol jk

But no seriously it's a combination of all.

I am addicted to it, it helps me get away from life and be introverted into my own thing, it has helped me get through difficult times in my life, it's nice to have rare things that are coveted by people, and I like the one about something I can control, definitely true. Also for the love of the good old hockey game.

My add: The chase of trades, card show bargains and the like, which I like almost as much as getting the actual cards themselves.

These things are crazy. My room is in disarray, papers, clothes everywhere. I never know where anything is but last night I was able to pull a 2003-04 Topps Traded Daniil Markov out of a box of commons because I know where every single f'n hockey card is that I have. It amazes my and my wife who just accepts it God bless her.

[mikebry28]

this is why I like SCF. Where else can you go from a thread about firesale problems, to addiction!

For me collecting is a escape, I have always collected cards since I was about 8, but got away from it for a long time, in that time many many many(yes I wrote many 3 times)bad things in life have happened, I have had numerous addictions which almost cost me everything, I have had a broken marriage and the list goes on, and I am only 30!lol

But when I started collecting again about 2 years ago, i found a positive escape, something that was actually really rewarding, and not killing me!lol..and it's not just the thrill of the deal, but I have met many of great people on this site, and by just simply talking to them have done so much in my life.

It's amazing to think the road that I was on was changed by a piece of cardboard!and I love it and I am thankful each and every day now!

Sorry to spill the beans here with all this stuff, but hey I know SCF is a place where I can actually say something like this!

Thanks again for reading...

Mike

[87sluggo]

Oh come on guys, english is not even my first language, I'm french basically.

Your english beats my french........

Yes, I believe ANY addiction is bad. Being too weak to quit smoking is killing me physically AND mentally. Drugs and alcohol are pure evil if you can't say no. Hockey cards tho? I don't believe any of us are truly addicted to them, we just like to think we are. We might be addicted to the chase, or to the fleeting moment when we open up the mail, but to the hobby itself? No. If I HAD to sell everything I'd be able to, it would ALL have to go tho.