I used to collect like crazy back in the late mid 80s up to the mid 90s and have a ton of football and basketball cards(none really valuable that I can think of) but I discovered too many other hobbies and I had to choose what to give up and card collecting was first. It didn't hurt that the hobby got way too freakin expensive. I wasn't about to waste like 3 bucks on a pack of 15 cards that I would file away and not look at for months at a time. That and you'd be amazed at home much space those little buggers take up when you don't have much storage space to work with.
Maybe when I have a son I'll officially give them to him so he can see what the big hype was all about. I figure by the time he's 10 or so the card craze probably will be back since everything works in cycles.
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