General Forum

...if you've ever uttered the sentence"All my friends are cardboard"

...if your personality has been compared to a cardboard standee and you took it as a compliment.

...if you see arrows pointing up and down, as in on a weather forecast or an elevator control panel, and it makes you think of Beckett. 

...your tablet/smart phone no longer tries to correct names like Porzingis, Ovechkin or Olajuwon, and also knows that Topps should be spelled with two P, and that it, Panini and Upper Deck should be capitalized. 

...you think Tuff is a perfectly acceptable spelling of the word. 

...you can remember pack insertion odds from 20 years ago but not how you're related to family members you see somewhat regularly. 

PapaG,

"...when you wish you had a home version of a defibrillator when you receive a package containing several of the wantlist of the very first set of cards you ever collected (even before you actually knew your were beginning a life long quest)."

Happy I didn't send you over the edge!

And yes, guilty of probably over half of these.

When the "bookshelves" in your house hold cards, not books.

Those are cardshelves.

  -   When a relative owns a house with a bomb shelter in back yard connected to house's basement and you have your vintage cards located there, in a water and fire proof safe, just in case.

  -  When the bit coin did it's plung from almost $16,000 a year ago to about $3,000 today  and you remember all those poor souls, that when stock market when kaputs in 1980's  they bought cards   and lost more money.

  -  And As,is with every post I make  What my new wife was told, by other collector's wives who had to deal with it for years.  

Another collector's wife told my wife of 3 months,  "Don't let it bother you, they say they collect baseball cards, we say they collect cardboard pictures of men"

When you have quit smoking cigs just to have more money to buy cards with.

In a divorce settlement you say you will trade your 3 kids for your baseball card collection.

When you open a pack of 89 Topps just to see what 30 year old gum tase like.

When your wife ask "Who are you texting this late at night?" And you respond say your just posting on TCDB.

When you contimplate if you could put off paying your morgage this pay period because you found the ultimate deal on a wantlist card. 

Thanks for so many great (and hilarious) responses, guys! Keep them coming.

When you write a love poem for your wife and the basis is a 1969 Topps Reggie Jackson RC as a metaphor. Just FYI...here it is:

There it is prominently exhibited 
A 1969 Topps Reggie Jackson rookie card
Until now my interest was inhibited 
To find it in near mint is downright hard

Seasoned for 48-years like a fine wine
The top left corner is slightly nicked
But to consider it damaged is asinine
Better card none could have picked

I held it once carefully in my hand
The surface is smooth as it should be
So I put it back on its stand
I did so delicately

A Reggie Jackson RC I hope to have one day
Not just any card, but the one I held
I just dream about it when I lay
The idea of it has never quelled

You might be a card collector if your drinking, smoking and gambling budget is less than your card budget.

When your loving friends and family look into a 12-step program for your card addiction.

When on hearing of this 12-step program possibility your first thought is I wonder what cards those guys have?

When your dog has a baseball card.

When you live in a three bedroom home and you sleep on the couch because your bedrooms are packed with cards.

When you found out a friend died you make sure to enquirer who’s going to take care of his card collection.

When you know what day of the week the Topps Living set come out. 

Realizing your collection isn’t worth half what you “invested” 

When your family does not ask what you want for Christmas or birthday. They just print off your want list.

When you remember your anniversary on TCDB better than your wedding anniversary.