No Longer A Collector

I have not bought anything new (coins) for awhile now and have been selling off a lot of the sprawl to try to focus on just a few nice pieces. Having lost a couple of family members recently made me realize it is really hard to deal with someone else's stuff. I am hanging on to my 7070 and my two 7100 albums since those are somewhat self contained. And I've kept some silver just because that is easy to sell. I sold off a lot of mint stuff and single type coins because they just didn't really mean a whole lot to me and my kids aren't going to be interested in them. My wife and I sold some other collectibles that we no longer had an interest in either.

Next up is selling off my early 70s sports cards. I will probably keep my 1973 Topps Baseball complete set but will sell off the rest of the partial sets and individual baseball, football, basketball and hockey cards from 71-74 that I collected as a kid. It's hard sometimes to let thing go but it is time.

Those are unfortunately not worth a lot because anybody and everybody was issuing sets then. Unless you happen to have one of the rarer rookie cards. Even with my 70s cards, with the exception of a very few cards, the local guy I know said we are really not interested as they have a large inventory of most cards and not that many buyers. So I will have to ebay them and see what I can get.

Kenkat and JBUCK I would bet you both have more than you realize in those cards they might be a little work but probably a little bit of money there.

I can probably count on one hand the number of coins I have that are not PM. TBH, if they're not silver or gold, they just haven't interested me from a collecting stand point, but can appreciate the history when I read about them.

That said, that collecting mindset was helpful for me financially this past year. Been away from the hobby for awhile as I was laid off last year and even had to sell a couple of gold coins and some silver as my employment search went longer than expected (and it's not fun to even window shop when you're selling off to pay bills). Had no issue finding buyers which helped pay the bills. Now that I'm working again and back on my feet, I'm going to try and catch up on the proof ASEs I didn't buy last year and start window shopping again.

I know many try to collect what they love, but collecting what I thought would at least hold its value was very helpful for me this past year.