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I'm sure some of the old timers put they on the spokes of your bikes.    As a kid I did not have any cards.   My grandma had a couple of 1955 baseball cards and a few airplane cards in her sewing box.   Do not know what happened to them.     Son tore apart the Basketball cards that are perpetrated and had 3 players on them.

As a kid, I got the 1979 Topps Bump Wills error card. It bothered me so much that the team name on the front of the card said Blue Jays but he was clearly wearing a Rangers uniform that I wrote Rangers on the card in pen. Then someone suggested it was an error card and might be worth something, so my Mom and I decided to preserve that card by sticking clear contact paper to it. So, doubly ruined it.

Someone else mentioned a cat. This wasn't really my fault but I would sit and sort through cards. Our kitten watched me for a while and then decided he needed attention so he went up to a stack of cards and just scattered them all around, slid all over the place when I was trying to grab him. Everyone else was laughing, I was annoyed. It was actually pretty smart of him, he knew how to get my attention.

The rubber band thing for sure.

My brother and I also used to fling cards at the wall.  Whoever got it closer to the wall, or farther up the wall won both cards.  Fun at the time.

When Thurman Munson died, I wrote the date he died on the front of all of his cards.

As a kid, I saved up my allowance to buy a Joe Montana rookie card. Around that time I was consumed by card collecting, it was all I wanted to do and acquiring more cards was all I thought about. That led to an argument with my mother, who was convinced I cared about cards more than my own family.

To prove she was wrong, I grabbed a pair of scissors, retrieved the Montana RC (maybe my most valuable card at the time) ... and cut it in half right in front of her.

Over the years I have been a Gwynn collector there has been certain cards from the over production years that I always acquired way to many of. About 6 years ago I had acquired around 700 copies of his 1987 Topps card. Well I just felt like they where taking up space and in no way would I be able to trade them or sell them. I decided to use them as a fire log one winter and they worked well. 

 Of coarse since that time I have acquired easily 500 more of the 1987 base card and probably an equal amount of the All-Star card. 

Flinging cards at my grade school was popular. We would also make "Tape Cards" where you taped about 10 together with clear packing tape and then threw them side arm to slide them to the wall and closest to the wall won the pot. For some strange reason my 9 year old brain thought having a Gretzky rookie on top of the stack where everyone could see it was a great idea. I wouldn't have it today anyway...I also fell victim to the "mom throughout" my cards curse.

Not something I did, but when my dad has his house built, he used my 1974 Topps football cards to fill in the septic tank line.

I've noticed the same thing.

Took a few cards from the 89 Batman movie set, put them in a Ziploc bag, punctured a few holes in the bag, and buried them in my parents’ side yard. I was planning on digging them up a year or two later to see what happened to them, but I never did. Of course, my parents still live in that house, and I remember approximately where they are buried, so I guess I could still dig them up. 
 

I’ve only shredded some junk wax doubles (typically ones that are scratched, dinged, or marked) to add to balance out my compost pile.