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I was looking to fill my trade boxes with some new cards to offer up for trade and the box I picked was apparently one I'd never sorted before because most of the cards I'm pulling from it are cards I don't currently have listed in my collection.  Few doubles here and there but mostly 90s era football cards I didn't have sorted into my sets yet.  If it wasn't for this site, I never would have known I hadn't sorted the box yet and most likely would have sold it off.

Anyone else ever get unexpected surprises like that thanks to this site helping them to better organize their collections?

FYI, it does look like there is some duplication to what I'm finding so if anyone collects junk era football hit me up in a day or two after I've gone through it all and see if I have anything added you'd be interested in trading for.

That's fun indeed.

I recently bought a small lot of junk wax just so see if it could help me with my set completion.  Mixed in were a couple dozen early 60's baseball and football, including a 1962 Orlando Cepeda.  Definitely a nice surprise.

We still have over 200 matches for wants/needs.  I might throw another trade offer your way when I have more time.

Anytime...

Not unexpected, but I still have about 5 monster and twenty 800 count boxes of unsorted stuff to sort and add. Wouldn't exactly call it all fun, sometimes it's overwhelming. 

Had that happen about a year back. I was going through a storage closet and found two storage boxes full of cards way in the back at the bottom on the floor.

I checked off a around 40 or 50 cards on my want lists. Added another 3 sets of cards to my want lists to complete the 3 sets and added a few 100 cards up for trade. 

My first reaction was OH NO! I thought I was done counting cards and listing cards. It took me over a year to get everything counted and listed here, when I firsts did it. I let boxes sit in the card room for a month before I said, ok it's time and go to it. 

I'll be bookmarking you page to see what you have. :)

For me, I love going through cards and see what I have or don't have.  There's a thrill in checking off the boxes of cards I didn't have listed in my collection before.

It's dealing with all my doubles that I find overwhelming.  I would love to go ahead and list them all here for trading but I know I'd never be able to find anything requested unless I have them organized in a way that I can quickly pull cards.  And since my wife gets on my case when I have cards sprawled out in our living space, I have to keep it to a couple boxes that I can quickly put in a closet or somewhere when we have guests over.

I agree - I love checking the box next to a card I don't have.  The only tedious aspect is when I go through a stack for which I already completed the set, knowing that everything is going to my FS/FT list.

More cards always = more fun!