i'm looking for a healthy hobby that doesn't involve dead hookers in my trunk and foggy memories of what happened the night before

i don't want to spend all my waking hours hunting down certain cards but in general, is buying unopened cases of previous years a good place to start and is $50 a fair price for something like Topps or Fleer

10/12/2008 11:51:58 PM

I've never got the entertainment value in sports cards. You have them, so what?

Why not learn to play the guitar or something? Not only is that fulfilling, you can use it to entertain others too.

10/12/2008 11:53:08 PM

how hard is it to build a robot that kills?

10/12/2008 11:55:11 PM

There's a reason people become beer experts, because adults like to get fucked up in the name of it being a 'hobby'

10/13/2008 1:08:07 AM

MY SPORTSMANS:

LET ME SHOW YOU THEM

10/13/2008 3:21:58 AM

Gotta agree, pick up a hobby that says you are maturing past boyhood. Nothing says I'm still an adolescent like sports cards, well except maybe collecting comic books.

10/13/2008 3:46:15 AM

Better hobbies:

Brewing your own beer
Geocaching (Gets your outdoors)
Poker (if you're good, could earn you some extra $$$)
Reading

If you are dead set on collecting something, you could hit up yard sales each weekend and try and find old/rare records/comic books to sell

10/13/2008 7:58:17 AM

I dont really see how collecting comic books is different than baseball/sports cards

10/13/2008 9:06:17 AM

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"I've never got the entertainment value in sports cards"

doesn't this really apply to anything that is collected? some people just get satisfaction from that kind of thing

10/13/2008 9:11:55 AM

i agree with picking up a more meaningful hobby, not to be mean or anything. You'll end up spending money on stuff that doesnt mean anything besides having something to look at, that you bought, that you have no real connection to.

I would think about things that you can keep up for a long time without doing the same thing over and over (i mean how fast do you think it will get old to do nothing but buy new cards and store them/look at them). Especially ones where you have room to grow, and learn new things constantly or that has some other value (getting in shape, general knowledge etc.)

What about learning to play an instrument? Easily one of the best things someone can do for a hobby imo. Lifelong learning experience and its something you can do with others, and never gets old. Other possibilities include learning a trade like woodworking or trying something new like fly fishing or mountain biking. Even reading more, or trying to become a history buff focused on a certain point in time that interests you.

Collecting something like baseball cards (unless you were already collecting hardcore since you were a kid and wanted to keep it up - which you are not) seems, at least to me, to be one of the most useless and money-wasting hobbies an adult could pick up.

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 9:36 AM. Reason : ]

10/13/2008 9:35:13 AM

i think im gonna learn japanese

it might help me in some business later and also with an awesome fetish

10/13/2008 9:39:37 AM

haha, yea that would be a productive one

10/13/2008 9:44:00 AM

one of my neighbors has thousands of cards still (he's 40 btw and still collects them - amazingly enough he's single as well) - he told me the market pretty much bottomed out a few years ago but some of his rare stuff makes up for all of the other shit that has gone down in value

10/13/2008 9:49:40 AM

My parents are moving and they want me to come get all of my old sports cards.

i have tens of thousands.

what the fuck do i do with them

10/13/2008 4:37:14 PM

the time it would take to sort them all isn't worth it - ebay / craigslist them

10/13/2008 4:59:36 PM

yeah that's what i'll probably do.

i have no desire to start going through them.

although when i was a kid, i was really anal about organizing them, so i'm sure they're still in whatever OCD order i put 'em al lin.

10/13/2008 5:02:28 PM

even if in perfect order - you still have to lookup and associate a value with each card - too bad you didn't enter them into some spreadsheet or database back then - then you could maybe justify writing a small app to do the association for you

10/13/2008 5:05:17 PM

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"I dont really see how collecting comic books is different than baseball/sports cards"

at least you can read a comic book and spend a measurable amount of time enjoying them.

but i agree, either of those would suck if you're trying to find something meaningful to do with your time. learn to play something, start fishing/hunting, etc. baseball cards are stupid.

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM. Reason : ]

10/13/2008 5:09:29 PM

add to the list of better hobbies:

shooting guns - a great skill to learn, fun to do with others, your purchase will most likely not significantly decrease in value, etc..

10/13/2008 7:12:05 PM

I remember spending every last dime I had as a kid on cards thinking I was going to be a millionaire someday when they skyrocketed in value like all the cards from the generation before mine did.

cards are so overproduced nowadays that they aren't worth crap anymore except for the rare autographed/jersey cards which are nearly impossible to get a hold of.

the demand is just not there anymore.

if you post an add on craigslist that you are actually willing to pay someone for their cards, I bet you will get a ton of emails from people offering you thousands of cards for 50 bucks or less.

10/13/2008 9:06:42 PM