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Originally Posted by RubberSponge
Many years ago I went through everything I collected as a kid from back when I started in 1985. Even found my Garbage Pail Kids cards from 1984, back when my pack ripping addiction as a kid really started. Any way, my mother wanted them out of her house and after me being gone 20+ years at that point I guess I could see why. So I got them home and went through each one individually and pulled all the stars, minor stars, rookies, etc . Threw away so much junk wax bullshit that I filled up a recycle bin of nothing but bent and torn nobodies. Still had about 50K cards after getting rid of many more and gave all but just a few to my son after that. It's all his shit to move around now. 
Definitely brought back the memories going through them again though. More so of how much my mother is a saint for buying me so many packs of cards when I was kid. |
I need to do the same thing one of these days. Sounds like we were collecting right about the same time frame. I pretty much have every complete set from 1985 to maybe 1992 in the closet at my parents. Around those years, Sam's Club had boxes of Donruss wax packs for like $8. So that's where my lawn mowing disposable income went. Once Upper Deck entered the scene marked the beginning of the end for me as I couldn't keep up on those packs of cards now being $1.