Excessive duplicates... ideas?

[duskglow]

I decided to go through my 2015 Topps Baseball cards today to see what I had. It turns out that I have probably one to two thousand duplicates, and in some cases I have 11 duplicates of one player!

I'm not sure how easily I could trade these, and I honestly feel like they're just taking up space, so I'm trying to figure out some ideas. Here's what I came up with so far:

(this is tongue in cheek, btw. I'm probably not going to do any of these things. It's just funny to think about. Though the second idea is really appealing).

I could make a floor out of them... lay them out and cover them with clear acrylic. But my apartment probably wouldn't like that.

I could, in that vein, make a wall mural (I actually kinda like this idea).

I could fake autograph them and leave them at Goodwill. (Hey, someone did that to me...)

I could do the mother of all automotive decoration hack jobs...

I could glue one on each side of a sixteenth inch think block of clear acrylic and make a kind of card no one's seen before. Put a small LED inside and it could be a work of art...

Or... I could just see if someone wanted to trade them, I guess. But that would be too easy!

Here's the nugget of a serious question in all of this silliness, though: when you have a pile of cards that you think are untradeable and are just taking up space, what do you do with them?

[pwaldo]

There was a guy on here that took junk cards and made baseball art with them. He was really really really good. Like he would take 1988 Donruss cards and make a portrait of Ken Griffey Jr with them. He hasn't posted for a few years I guess but when he did it was always an amazing piece of work.

[scottkoz20]

Tim Carroll is the artist uses bulk base and turns it into Art. Spoke with him a bit at Nationals and he does a great job with it!

https://www.timcarrollart.com/

[pwskelly]

Crazy talent there ... quite an impressive collection of art work for sure.

Tim Carroll is the artist uses bulk base and turns it into Art. Spoke with him a bit at Nationals and he does a great job with it!

https://www.timcarrollart.com/

[duskglow]

Tim Carroll is the artist uses bulk base and turns it into Art. Spoke with him a bit at Nationals and he does a great job with it!

https://www.timcarrollart.com/

Wow, that's pretty cool. And here I was thinking just putting them on a board and hanging them on the wall. That's far better.

[Therealmahoney]

I usually take my extras, base, dupes to the children’s hospital and donate them for the kids.

[Y4123]

Yeah I have a ton of duplicate 1993 Donruss cards that I don't know what to do with lol

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[Thick McRunfast]

I have a little nephew who will soon be old enough to enjoy trading cards. Unbeknownst to him, a couple of monster boxes filled with duplicates are waiting for him.

If you've got some little nephews, nieces, or cousins (or young kids of your own!), giving them some of your dupes is always an option.