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Originally Posted by 2nd/6thGenTx

I probably have over 100K in Hockey memorabilia. Yeah. I probably spent twice that to get the collection since the early 90s.
Used to buy boxes of cards for 200 or 300 and toss what I didn't want
Now I buy specific players and items, welcome to the new age.
Not all old stuff is worth money, just the more limited items.

I used to buy boxes in the late 90s. When I ended up with 5 cards each of a bunch of players that weren't worth the cardboard they were printed on, I started buying single cards of players I wanted to collect. Unfortunately, I made the bad decision of buying low value cards, because, at the time, I couldn't justify spending a few hundred dollars on a single card even though I could afford it. 20+ years later, most of the player cards I collected have increased in value, but not significantly. And a lot of those higher value cards I could have afforded back then are no longer affordable.