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I asked my wife the question of what she would do with my card collection when I'm gone. She smartly threw it back at me by saying "what do you want me to do with it?" 

I collect only Chicago Cubs cards and have sets minus a few cards here and there back to 1951. I'm not a stickler for condition, so some of the older cards may be "good" or "VG".

What are your plans for your cards after you are gone? 

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This was recently discussed. I am working on having things well organized so that whomever needs to go through my stuff can identify anything of real value. In simple terms it probably goes to auction with instructions of anything in a case would be a card of value for the auctioneer to highlight at the time of sale. Sets in binders would be clearly marked. That is the most likely conclusion. Nobody is going to want this huge space taker when I'm gone.

It's not gonna be a while for me (hopefully), but I'm gonna give mine to my grandkids.

I have my first kid on the way so once he's of age he gets some of the collection to get him going

My son has already claimed it.

On the flip side I have one I'm dealing with.  When I was younger, my dad would take me to card shows.  To give himself something to do while I worked on finding cards for my base Topps sets, he decided he would collect the entire run of Topps Montreal Expos.  I did a decent job collecting most of them, and it's all together in a binder.  Since he's passed away, I'm left wondering should I break it down and take the cards I want to keep from it for my sets (I have 99% of them, so I'd only be taking a small handful), or do I try to finish what he wasn't able to get from it?

Lildog7 - it’s an interesting dilemma, I’d like to think that I would try to finish off his project, but would probably make it a lower priority.  Something to do in my spare time or when I was thinking about him.  

Sadly mine will likely end up being thrown away.

Echoing BSwagger's approach..identify things of value..probably purge the rest by then. 

Will probably have a hard copy document of cards/sets and estimated values.

Will make it easier for my kids/grandkids to sell off. 

Wild card is if and when our daughters get married, if my son in laws may have an interest. 

Oh! Whoops! Maybe that's why I started thinking about it. If that's the case, the end is probably closer than I expect. 

My wife has asked me to catalog my collection so in the event I croak, she can at least sell it.  But that is an exhausting thought.  Instead, I thought if there was one person I could make sure my collection went to if that day were to happen, that is who I would want to do whatever with my collection.  I've purchased from a guy in NY for going on 20 years now.  He knows my collection about as well as I do.  We've talked about it in detail but both agree that we need to live to 100 so we max out our time to build our collections.