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Once I get everything entered in here (probably within the next decade)......I would say close to 500k.  I collected mainly in the 80's and have tons and tons of them at my parents house.....SLOWLY pulling stuff from there and putting on here.  My father was big into cards with me and as I'm going through things, I am seeing that he bought so many other things that I had no clue about......I have unopened cases of Topps from 87 - 92, Donruss from 87 and 88.......will be a bit to get it all :)

Just over a million.  A lot are in binders and the rest in 5,000 count boxes.  I have approximately 175  of these boxes filled, mostly baseball and about 50,000 of the other sports.  Im hoping to downsize some soon.

I’ve got around 100k listed on here and another 20ish thousand waiting to be entered. Of those around 60% are collection cards and the rest are traders. And then there’s the untold thousands my future self is probably going to buy

Only thousands?  I think a lot of use have thousands  waiting some love. My wantlist shudders when I go to adjust it....

My educated guess would be at least 80K total cards. My numbers here say over 71K but they don't count unopened material. I also still have some NBA cards left to add and many complete sets that are FS/T that need to be added. About a third of my collection is my personal collection and the rest are traders.

This is a pretty loaded question.  As far as my "Collection", I really only collect Barry Sanders.  But as far as the cards I have in my attic, I would say roughly 300,000.  Mostly football between 1987-1996 and then quite a bit in 2012, 2019 and 2020.  I also have baseball and basketball, mostly early 90s that I haven't even looked through in 20 years.

As far as my Barry "Collection" I would say I have 7,500.  Of the 7,500 I would say I have 2,100 different cards.

So I may have an issue...

I saw this thread and looked at my phone I was on and I had, and I know this to be true, about 48500 Tigers cards in my collection. I switched to my computer to respond in this thread and now it says I a have only 16000 Tigers cards total! WTF? My main reason for posting this is to get a time stamp so if something went wrong maybe ADMIN can reset me to what my collection was at the start of this day.

I'm at 75% of the way towards having in all entered and organized. I'll be at about 75k in my PC and another 50-60k for trade.

I have about 75k: 50k in my pc, 21k in my trade list, and ~4k of "junk" cards in about four shoe boxes in the garage. As for these junk cards, I don't really know what to do with them since they are duplicates that are not worthy to trade (but not throw out, I guess). Surprisingly, I don't have thousands waiting to be sorted, organized, and logged in; I finally got all that done probably around this January--after two years of life and good ol' fashion procrastination. 

I've actually discussed this topic before on Carboard History, but the amount of available cards varies by sport. If you are a baseball collector you could top a million unique cards if you do it long enough and put enough attention towards it. Yet, for the sports I collect, that would require having almost every card ever made, and for auto racing, it would require having every card about 4 times over. 

Here's a screencap of the current totals I just took:

You could literally add all the NBA, NHL and NASCAR cards ever made together and still get less than is available for baseball. The non-sport numbers are a bit skewed because we have so many that have not been listed yet, but they would be over 1 million if the checklists could be found and all the different backs of tobacco cards were properly documented.

Just think, with a little balancing, you could hold every single boxing card ever in your hands at one time. Not that I would recommend trying to lift a full 5000 count box and another partially filled one on top of it at the same time...but it could be done.