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You Know You're a Card Collector When . . .

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so true!

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when you are a member of TCDb, and also a member of Sports Card Forum, Blow Out Cards forum, Freedom Carboard, Hobby Kings, The Bench Trading, and check them all every day, just to be sure that you don't miss a potential trade.

When you check e-bay every day, at least once, and sometimes 5 times, for both new posts and ending soonest,  on at least 6 of your favorite searrches, hoping to be the first person to spot an exceptional deal on a card you "need"

When you occasionally do the math and say to yourself, my hobby allowance is $20 a week, so that is $1,040 a year, and over 30 years that is over $31,000, and you do a regression analysis, and what if proposal, and calculate that if you had put that $20 a week in the stock market, and earned 7% average rate of return, it would be a nice pile of cash of over $100,000.  And then you conclude:  No regrets.

Another one of my case is when you hear a last name of somebody else you shout out the first names of all the baseball players with that last name.

Every so often yes

When you realize that you have spent half of your money on your card collection and then feel like you wasted the other half.

when discussing random football players with your friends you always know when their rookie year was cause you remember what the design of their rookie card was

When you're given a menu at a restaurant and you instinctively check it for creases and dinged corners.

When you sent out 15 messages to have people to have them verify a card that they listed is the correct Var.  Then willing to spent a enveope, stamp,top loader and a card or 2 to get it.   I'm talking about commons and just one card.