tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post8467057253197968007..comments2024-03-28T13:44:09.103-04:00Comments on Night Owl Cards: Stamped in my memorynight owlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11673973790245316059noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-71674567166319024122011-08-16T12:05:48.939-04:002011-08-16T12:05:48.939-04:00I cringe at the Lost Collector's story of his ...I cringe at the Lost Collector's story of his mom selling his GI Joes. My mom did the same!<br /><br />I have way too many hobbies night owl. Heck, even trying to keep up with 2 different blogs is hard. It's fun though. Never collected stamps, but I too can relate to Matchbox cars. For me it was also GI Joe as I mentioned, Transformers, Atari and eventually comic books and baseball cards. To this day that really has changed (well I did trade in my Atari for a Xbox 360). See, I told you I had too many hobbies.flywheelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17404740580161509052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-60696271523718587342011-08-16T05:01:50.210-04:002011-08-16T05:01:50.210-04:00I never did the stamp thing, much to the chagrin o...I never did the stamp thing, much to the chagrin of my grandfather. I have collected a few coins over the years, but mostly stuff that comes from family members. I was hooked on cards from the moment I opened my first pack of 1981 Fleer. I know, I know...Play at the Platehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14231140141558021698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-82943873094725228752011-08-16T00:11:44.941-04:002011-08-16T00:11:44.941-04:00The first thing I collected was those small Fawcet...The first thing I collected was those small Fawcett Peanuts paperbacks. I didn't so much collect them as read them like crazy when I was a kid, but they were the first bit of ephemera that accumulated greatly that I still actually have. That and Mad Magazine, but my mom purged those one terrible weekend.<br /><br />I got weird into stamp collecting in the mid-'80s during a card collecting lull. And I mean weird, scary, obsessive compulsive weird. Like, for a month I had to have every stamp I could find with an overprint. Then it was internal governmental tax revenue stamps. I sure wish I knew what the hell happened to me in the early '80s to cause me to turn to a semi-normal kid into a complete nutjob.<br /><br />...<br /><br />BUT I'M MUCH BETTER NOWdayfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09343838411856677615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-4390831693057324322011-08-15T22:14:12.398-04:002011-08-15T22:14:12.398-04:00I had GI Joe's, but not for the purpose of col...I had GI Joe's, but not for the purpose of collecting. I played with them. They weren't the big, 12-inch dolls. They were shorter and had moveable joints. They also came with sweet weapons and names like "Tunnel Rat". <br /><br />My mom ended up selling them all in a big box at a garage sale. I think the total was $20. Someone made out like a bandit.The Lost Collectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07281282785351456790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-25232683476885017322011-08-15T20:41:31.365-04:002011-08-15T20:41:31.365-04:00I did collect Matchbox cars as a kid. I think I e...I did collect Matchbox cars as a kid. I think I even had a case, sort of like an attache with dividers. But I don't think that necessarily preceded card collecting for me. I have shadowy memories of buying cards when I was six. My Dad collected stamps most of which he sold but I have some, mostly odd countries. I have a boatload from Kirabati. You'd have to look it up. I did.Hackenbushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700049103080920994.post-35712438175288207942011-08-15T20:32:07.204-04:002011-08-15T20:32:07.204-04:00That's funny, I also started out with stamps b...That's funny, I also started out with stamps before baseball cards, although I think it was the pursuit of baseball cards that drove me away from stamps (allowance only went so far) rather than any traumatic experience. I'm now starting to get back into baseball cards again after an 18-year hiatus (has it really been that long? ugh.), and it is everything I remember, both good and bad.chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01629282636235093552noreply@blogger.com