The Great Card Purge

I cannot believe it has been almost seven months since my last post. But as I look at how busy things have become over the last seven months, then yeah… I can believe it.

School started almost a month ago for my son, which has forced a lot of things to settle down around here. Earlier bed times, less running around, etc. With this extra time, I have decided to purge a lot of my cards.

When we “downsized” to a new house last year, I had to downsize my card area. I went from an almost unlimited amount of space in the basement to 4″X2″ closet in my office, which quickly became a cluttered mess. This bothered me a lot.

Bye-bye basketball

I had a small five year run of Panini NBA Hoops basketball sets going, but realized I honestly didn’t care about them. Sure they were fun to put together, but I have never paged through my basketball binders like I do my baseball sets. I ended up selling approximately 2,500 basketball cards over the last few weeks.

Thinning Out The Football Collection

I love watching football. I really do, but my desire to collect football is gone. I don’t know if 40+ half-assed football products Panini releases a year or the fact players come and go so fast… Either way, I just don’t do football anymore. The only two football sets I am going to keep is my 2014 Topps Chrome and 2015 Topps Chrome… Maybe.

Selectively Selling Baseball

I had a ton of baseball sitting around from the past two to five years. I took a week to separate and sort what I wanted to get rid of. Essentially, anything NOT Minnesota Twins or a set need will go. I ended up selling around 4,000 baseball cards. Luckily enough, I had a couple 2018 Topps Updates sets laying around and some extra Ronald Acuna Jr rookies too. Smell ya later, Acuna!

More Room To Breathe

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It feels like weight of 8,000 cards has been lifted off my shoulders. It made me feel anxious to have so many cards laying around that I gave such little focus. There is still more to do as the top loaded singles will go next.