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My wife told me I had to stop collecting insects and to find a new hobby a few months ago... so I started collecting cards...

Has anyone told you yet that Upper Deck included bugs in one of the Goodwin Champions multi-sport sets? Not just drawings of them either. Real ones, like actual cicada shells for example.

Garrison wrote:

My wife told me I had to stop collecting insects and to find a new hobby a few months ago... so I started collecting cards...

The card listed below is what got me started. I walked into a LCS in my hometown with my mom and had just started watching baseball. I saw this card and had to have it. And thus, the lifetime addiction began .

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/1212/cid/176362/1998-SkyBox-E-X2001-72-Kevin-Brown

Though I did collect while in school during the 70s, in an extremely small town in Saskatchewan, cards were hard to come by.  I did put a hockey set together in I believe 1976 as well as a set of CFL cards (the ones with the red borders).  But that was it till 1990 Spring Training in Florida. One of the first cards I bought was a 1980 Topps Dave Stieb RC. I then proceeded to try to put the sets together for that year.  Since then, I have collected, mostly from yard sales, flea markets, auctions and Kijiji/Craigs List where ever I traveled. Four years ago I found this site and through this great community, have traded for cards I need for my sets and PC. Well over 200 trades completed, 15,000 cards sent and 13,000 received, this has become my best source for cards.

In 1982 my father had three beat up cards in this little metal box that held some financial papers and his checkbook.  I would take them out and look at them since one was a Yankee, my favorite team.

The cards were 1971 Aaron, 1972 Mays, and a 1979 Thurman Munson.  I have no idea where he got them, but I started collecting from there.

1984 topps Don Mattingly I just fell in love with the set. I think they were like 50 cents a pack. Still to this day it's my favorite set.

not sure what really started it, but the first game i can remember watching was the night hank aaron hit number 715, so that may have been it, buying cards through the rest of 1974.  then the next year, our 5 and 10 never got the 1975's so i just got more 1974's.  what few '75s i did get were mostly the minis they were testing in our area.  finallly in the spring of 76, after stopping in nearly daily, new cards finally arrived.  i kept collecting until 1992 then switched to nascar die cast.  then a few years ago, i started introducting the kids into, and they love it. so that once tiny collection that started in 1974 and could be kept in one of those special topps card lockers, now encompass most of the bedroom. and continues to grow and grow.

I don't remember how I started collecting hockey cards. But I did. I didn't really care about the set it came from, Mostly because I was more interested in finding Ottawa Senators players. Then one day while browsing in the Walmart near my place, I found boxes of the 1999-00 Upper Deck Gold Reserve set and bought a few of them. Then a few days later they had boxes of the 2013-14 Score set. That's how I started collecting sets.

As a teenager, picked up a number of Football Packs around '73.

Not collecting, but still had them stuffed in an area behind a mirror,

when my parents moved in '86, while I was overseas.

Started collecting in '95, because of racing more than because of the cards.

When I was 7 we went to Miisouri to visit family and my cousins have

me probably 50 1969 topp s cards which included a Mickey Mantle. I lived in a small town in Michigan which as far as I know didn't sell baseball cards anywhere. It wasn't until we moved to a bigger town in 72 that I started buying packs so I'm not real sure how much my cousins actually influenced me.  Found out last night their dad passed away. Haven't seen him or my cousins in probably 40 years but this is a nice remembrance I'll have of each of them.