Our continued commitment to the preservation for all commons means we are continuing the work of our ancestors by upholding this hobby's tradition of set collecting because it is our duty.
Every day, we recommit to educating others on the value of each and every card, and to co-creating alongside fellow hobbyists a culture where each card is cared for and treated with respect.
We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate differences and commonalities.
We work vigorously for respect for commons and, by extension, all cards.
We intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful hobby that is restorative, not depleting.
We are unapologetically collectors in our positioning. In affirming that Common Cards Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire fair treatment for commons is a prerequisite for wanting the same for others.
We see ourselves as part of the global collecting community, and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted as set collectors who must pay ridiculous amounts of money to put sets together due to the priviledged "group breakers."
We are guided by the fact that all Common Cards Matter, regardless of actual or perceived value of the set, producer of the set, figure depicted on said card, team, batting average, ERA, 3 pt%, PPG, TDs, INTs, or condition of the card.
We make space for non-sports card collecting brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle group breakers' privilege and uplift set collecting folk, especially non-sport collectors who continue to be disproportionately ignored in the collecting world.
We build a space that affirms non-sport collectors and is free from environments in which sport card collectors are centered.
We practice empathy. We engage fellow hobbyists about the disrespect being shown to commons with the intent of educating them and to learn about and connect with their contexts.
We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires lower-end collectors to work “double shifts” just to have the ability to buy a single pack of flagship which now costs over $4 which is absolutely ridiculous because this is Topps freaking flagship and should be affordable to everyone like HOW DO YOU EXPECT NEW COLLECTORS TO BE INTRODUCED INTO THE HOBBY IF YOU ARE CHARGING $4 FOR A PACK OF 15 OF YOUR MOST BASIC SET...
*eh-hem*
We disrupt the media-prescribed superstar collecting structure requirement by supporting each other as collectors of all cards that collectively care for one another, especially our commons, to the degree that all collectors, both high-end, low-end, player collectors, set collectors, non-sport collectors, and more, are comfortable.
We foster a vintage collector‐affirming network. When we talk with each other, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of current day cards, or rather, the belief that all in the world only collect new cards (unless s/he disclose otherwise).
We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.
We embody and practice peace in our engagements with one another, all with the common goal of progressing our movement forward -- COMMON CARDS MATTER!
#COMMONCARDSMATTER
"The 0-2 pitch... SWING AND A MISS! Struck him out! The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball!"
- RIP Harry Kalas
