March 24, 2025 • 33 mins
Ashley, known as Junk Wax Queen on social media, shares how she transformed from card collecting novice to passionate enthusiast after her husband introduced her to the hobby during COVID lockdowns. What began as a way to pass time together became a serious pursuit with organized binders, display walls, and dedicated collecting strategies.
• Started collecting during COVID when her husband suggested opening packs together
• Prefers older cards while her husband collects modern releases
• Created a "junk wax" wall display after joking about worthless cards being turned into wallpaper
• Organizes collection meticulously with separate binders by sport in alphabetical order
• Maintains a dedicated Vince Carter collection with one treasured card on a necklace chain
• Travels up to five hours to attend card shows, focusing on affordable "dollar boxes"
• Sets a specific budget for card purchases by allocating money to a dedicated account
• Enjoys sharing duplicate cards with other collectors who are completing sets
• Balancing collecting with family needs, especially accommodating her autistic son at events
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I guess I'm still learning.
Maybe that's why it's soexciting, but I think if I
started earlier I'd just have awhole lot more cards.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Way too many, just too many for the both of you, I
know.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You see anybody there .
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, all right.
Well, welcome everybody to yetanother episode of the DadHack
Chronicles.
My name is Ed, also known asthe DadHack, With me, as always,
my co-host, my good friend ValStadium Food Girl.
What's going on, girl?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hi, nothing much.
I'm so excited.
It's another Monday but I getto talk to a new guest, and
that's always exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I know right, this one is a new one.
It's going to be a new one forus, so we're excited for this
one.
But before we get started, Iwant to make sure that everybody
that is tuning in tonight orwhenever you are listening to
this wonderful podcast, makesure you guys are following us
on all social medias and makesure you also catch us.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 PMEastern time, that I go sports
show, which is on YouTube, andVal maybe show may.
(01:11):
She may show up one day.
You know now that baseballseason is really getting started
, she might definitely show upand talk some conspiracy
theories with us.
What do you think about?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So so cringe.
Yes, I'll be ready.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It'll be extra tinfoil this season, extra
tinfoil this year.
Okay, sounds good.
I like it All right, so with usgood tonight.
Well, on the show we havesomeone who is a collector.
We met through this wonderfulworld of social media, through
Twitter.
Ashley, your handle is junk waxqueen.
(01:46):
Um well, first of all, welcometo the data chronicles podcast
thank you, glad to be here loveit.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I was just listening to y'all show going to pick up
dinner, did you?
Yeah, like just like 15 minutesago I was like, oh, they're
really good.
I'm very nervous.
No, we're not, they're reallygood.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm very nervous.
No, we're not.
We're not good, we're just abunch of fans that love we love
sports.
Definitely.
You know, love our sports.
And if you follow Val she isthe listen when it comes to food
items and all things foodrelated for baseball or any
sports you need to follow her.
That's the one right there.
So me, I just, I just likesports.
(02:26):
That's it.
I love sports.
My wife would think that I likeit a little too much, but you
know, it is what.
It is what are you going to do.
So we, what we want to do is wewant to first get started, we
want to get to know a little bitabout you.
And then my very first questionto you, if you don't mind, what
got you into card collecting?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So my husband was the one that got me into it.
You know, when COVID hit, wewent from kind of seeing each
other a few minutes a day to allof a sudden being in the house
with each other for months, andthat was new.
(03:07):
We had to find something to todo and he's been collecting
since he was a kid and he wasjust kind of like hey, you know,
do you want to rip some packswith me?
check it out.
I'm like, yeah, sure, and itjust it just so happened to be a
lot of fun.
It was something we got to bondover and, okay, I think it kind
of kept us from like you knowkilling each other yeah, yeah,
(03:30):
yeah I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, okay, so.
So that's I like that, that youknow the both of you bonded
over that.
No, your husband also has apretty big collection of uh,
sports cards as well he does.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He's um, he's kind of taking a pause on it lately,
kind of trying to reel him backin by buying him some stuff here
and there, like, oh look what Ifound for you.
But he's kind of switched gearson me a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, he's been collecting since once, since he
was a little kid, right.
So he was like maybe I'll takea little bit of a break.
Yeah, let me ask you, if youwere to put a number on his
collection, not yours on hiscollection, what would be that?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't even know, because it's like I'm very
organized with mine and so Ikind of tried to do that with
his and it was like just when Ithought I was making some kind
of progress, oh I found anotherbox, or his mom would pull a box
out of the attic and I'm justlike I just gave up.
(04:38):
It never stopped.
So I really don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Wow, I'm looking at your wall and I was laughing
when Ed asked that because Iknew it had to be a scary number
just off of looking at yourwall of he's the one that got
you into it.
I can only imagine yourcollection, but thinking about
the one that got you into it,what that number could be.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
But it's funny though , because we collect different
things.
He's more into the um, themodern stuff.
I mean he has like his olderguys that he collects, like
andrew jones, and that sort ofthing.
But I collect the older stuffand he's kind of still in the
newer side interesting, I see.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Interesting, I see.
So you fell in love with theolder cards, mm-hmm.
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
That's pretty cool.
When you're opening up a pack,what makes you decide where to
display?
I'm sure you have one of thosebinders right, Like with card
holders?
What makes you decide what toput in there?
What goes in which binder?
What goes on the wall?
What's a card that youreference to every day?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
um, so the wall was just um.
So the wall was just like itstarted out, kind of like a joke
, like a you know, everyone saysthat junk wax is useless, not
useless, worthless.
They're like it's worthless.
You might as well turn it intowallpaper, and I'm like that's a
(06:16):
good idea.
I had boxes and boxes and boxesof it laying around and I just
slapped it up there and for thewall.
It was just kind of like myfavorite favorite cards, as in
like cards I wouldn't miss if Ihad to leave it behind, and but
as far as like my collection,like I have a separate binder
(06:39):
for just my Vince Carter cardsand then everything else is
divided by sport in alphabeticalorder.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh my God.
So you were like you.
It's like, let me ask you thisDo you have a spreadsheet on it?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Not yet.
I've started working on it justbecause I got really tired of
coming home and being like ohcrap, I already have this one,
but it's have this one, but it'sit's a lot to.
It's a lot to try to get it.
You know all in one placethat's it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I can just imagine you're just like yep, I'm just
gonna start a spreadsheet, I'mall, I'm all for this now, I
don't know too much about cards.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I know that there's different brands.
Is there like the gold mine,like I know tops, obviously?
But then there's also like thecard giveaways at stadiums and
arenas, like I'm sure thoseprobably don't have like a Paul
Skeen's rookie card type.
I don't know if they areactually, but like is like do is
(07:43):
there like the gold mine oflike when it comes to brands for
cards?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That depends on who you ask.
I don't open a lot of modernproduct anymore Like I'll grab
like the flagship baseball everynow and then, like when it
comes out, just because it'shard.
It just depends on what youcollect.
Like, if you ask the people whocollect football, they're going
(08:11):
to say panini products, and ifyou ask the people who collect
baseball, they'll they'll saytops.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
but yeah, it just just really depends so each
sport has their own likefavorite brand that they
everybody follows more or less.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That really just has to do with which company has the
license for what product andwhat era you want to collect and
that kind of thing interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
What's yours for the four major sports basketball,
baseball, football and hockey?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's tough, because the ones that I like for
basketball, they don't makecards anymore.
If I had to choose, I'd sayTopps for all of them.
Now, the older cards Topps did.
They did some impressive stuff,I think.
But and like, for every time Iget a like, a nice looking tops
(09:13):
card from you know the early 90s, my husband's always like can
you believe?
This was like junk back in theday.
It was so cheap.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And I'm like I know, tell me about it, but do you
wish you you would have pickedup card collecting young when
you were?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
younger.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Um, well, would you?
And if you didn't like, do youthink what you would appreciate
it more?
Like you appreciate it more nowthan you did if you would have,
you know, started it when youwere younger don't really know
um, because it's funny, becausethe way my husband describes it
is his relationship with cards.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He said, um, card collecting is like the wife that
you've been married to for 50years you know's familiar, it's
there, you love it.
Sometimes you get a littletired of it.
Then he tells people that I'mstill in the honeymoon phase
(10:16):
with card collecting,everything's still exciting.
I don't know, because it's beenalmost seven years now, I think
, and it's still.
You know, I guess I'm stilllearning.
Maybe that's why it's soexciting, but I think if I
(10:37):
started earlier I'd just have awhole lot more cards.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Way too many.
Just too many for the both ofyou.
I know Do you focus on anyspecific sport or do you follow?
You just collect for all, likebasketball, football or baseball
.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I used to focus on just basketball, just because,
like, I thought that the cardslook better.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But here recently I've just I've been buying a lot
of baseball yeah, I just said Ilike that right yeah that's
pretty cool, though, like I meanthe fact that like you started
with basketball and now you'relike into getting in some cars
because I've seen you knowobviously I got to do a research
right and you're showing upsome of your baseball cards.
(11:25):
That's pretty cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, it just it kind of it comes and goes.
It's when I'm like when I'm ata show I mainly focus on the
baseball lately but like if I'mon eBay, it's just it's free
game, I mean, it's what?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
it's whatever, whatever you can get your hands
on.
Yeah, how much time do youdevote yourself to searching
cards now, like, let's say, likeyou know, obviously you got
your your show that you go to,but you also have, like you know
, when you look on ebay and youknow, marketplace, I'm sure,
craigslist, things like thatlike how much time do you spend
looking for cards?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
not really not a whole lot of time.
Um, mainly a lot of it comesfrom um twitter first.
So, like I'll see a card thatsomeone shared and I'm like I, I
really like that, don'tnecessarily like that player.
Let me go look and see, youknow, if there's that same card
(12:30):
for someone that I do collect.
Um, and it just kind of spiralsfrom there.
It just, you know, I'm like Iwonder if this person has a card
and then it gets out of control.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I get it.
I get it.
I mean I look, I don't know Val, I know, but I know I do Like I
look for hats like pretty muchevery day.
I got my websites that.
I look at and I'm there lookingfor hats all the time.
Did I buy them?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Probably not, but I shouldn't Earlier, ed, and I
never thought of this, that thiscould be be a thing.
But I'm looking at the wall andI think of the binders and I
think, like ed, you hadmentioned something about an
excel spreadsheet.
I did not think that that wouldbe something to create with
this hobby.
That's absolutely incredible.
(13:22):
When you come across a car, aplayer that you have more than
one like with with cards, do you, do you trade them, do you sell
them?
Like?
How do you go about that?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
lately I've been trying to find people who are
maybe like completing sets orwho collect that player too and
just kind of send it to themBecause I mean, nothing I'm
buying lately is, you know,crazy money.
So just kind of like, oh well,I know so-and-so is collecting
this or putting this settogether, I'll just pop it in
(13:55):
the mail for them.
But I'm trying to be betterabout not buying the same one
over and over again, becauseit's a lot of work buying it in
person.
You know it's hours of justdigging through boxes and it's
like okay, like normally I onlyend up with like two or three,
(14:15):
but lately it's kind of feltlike it's more like five or six
and you don't have to go intodetail about it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
But is there a card that you own that is worth a
pretty penny that you're justnot going to sell?
Or do you sell them when youknow you can get something out
of it?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So I don't really, I don't really sell cards like
that just cause I'm, I feel likea little bit of a hoarder, a
little bit Cause I'm like I getrid of it.
I'm like, but what if I really?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
miss this card someday like what if I need?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
it for something else , um, but I mean, there have
been some cards of like playersthat I don't collect that I'm
like it doesn't make sense forme to hold on to this Trey Lance
Zion Williamson.
I'm like these aren't reallypeople that I collect.
(15:12):
Might as well get rid of itwhile the money is there.
It's actually this one.
I have it out because I took apicture of it the other day.
You might not be able to see itactually this one and I just I
have it out because I took apicture of it the other day it's
(15:33):
a you might not be able to seeit.
It's a vince carter dunkin gonuts.
Um.
Is that a whole chain on it?
It is, um.
I bought it as a joke, um,because I always pick up my
husband about how I was going toput it on a necklace and wear
it all the time.
And that card was actuallygiven to me by somebody else, so
I will never get rid of it.
I told my husband.
I said if something happens tome you have to bury me with it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Good job yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Earlier did you say you have a Vince Carter binder?
Did I hear?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, I'm just going to go back to that.
That was just going to ask thatquestion too oh my goodness
yeah, um your favorite player.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
You just like the look of his cards the most a
little bit of both.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I like the look of his cards.
Um, his cards are a little bitmore affordable too, so that was
definitely like a a factor, youknow, because, like kobe and
yeah, well, those are yeah yeah,they're up there wow
(16:36):
interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, you know, I just never really thought about
it this way, right, like I mean,I'm trying to put myself in a
way and was like all right, soinstead of me collecting hats,
it's collecting cards.
It's pretty much the same thing, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I go ahead I cannot pick up another thing to collect
.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I know, I know so interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
What do you collect now?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What doesn't she?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I collect a few things Bobbleheads, pins,
actually, no Okay, wait, hold on.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You collect jerseys too.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Bobbleheads, pins, hats and jerseys.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Okay, do you just fly them everywhere?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Okay, hold on.
Final list.
Final list.
I'm sorry I forgot the mostimportant one.
Souvenir cups those getdisplayed, okay.
Pins those get displayed.
Bobbleheads those get displayed.
Jerseys Some I don't wearbecause a lot of them are
(17:41):
autographed, but some I'm like.
I also vlog, so I buy thejerseys so that I can wear those
to the stadiums.
Like, if I'm going to an A'sgame, I'll wear my A's jersey,
if I'm going to an Angels game,I'll wear my Angels jersey, but
some are just special to wear.
And then hats I always buy ahat every time I go to a new
stadium, so I usually do wearthem because they're like 30
bucks so I really should wearthem.
(18:02):
Who?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
are you telling well over 600 hats right here?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
those are usually full.
I still put into kids like kidslarge kids actually, so I'm not
spending too much but.
I feel expensive, like I saidthanks.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I stopped wearing kids a long, long time ago.
I'm six foot two, okay, so it'slike I can't.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I can't wear, you know, kids, anything, youth,
anything but yeah, I can't pickup another thing to collect, but
this sounds so interesting,especially because I love
organization, so if I can findsomething else to collect that
requires organization, that justscratches my brain in such a
good way.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I already have too many things that I'm collecting.
If you see, right now I have alot of Legos in this office.
I build them and collect theLegos.
Yes, I do.
I know Baseball.
So, like you know, the onething that I do now is and it's
like to your point, val is Istarted collecting pins when I
go to the ballpark.
(19:00):
So if I go to the ballpark,then I'll buy a pin there.
So that's something that I do.
Minor league baseball it's howwe are.
We love our minor leaguebaseball, but as far as a hat, I
will only buy a major leaguehat if I'm at that ballpark.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh, okay.
Yeah, see, we're all crazy, weall justify one way or another
we all got our, you know, we all, you know, justify one way or
another.
Oh yeah, no, my husband, whenhe took a break from cards, he
picked up lego collecting.
I, just, matter of fact, I gothim one coming from ebay.
Now it's the?
Um.
You know the scene in jurassicpark where the breakthrough yes
(19:43):
got him that one coming in themail kind of excited about it I
should show it like we should.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Me and your husband should talk.
I have a bunch of cars and thenI have nothing but star wars
all over this house, all of hisoffice, star wars.
I got my wife.
My wife started building, mydaughter builds lego.
So yeah, it's a family thingnow.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, him and my, him and my three-year-old built the
Legos together.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He's got some patience, because I couldn't do
it Not with, not with the kids.
Like I can do it alone,perfectly fine, but like
watching him.
Like she's like no, I'll help,I'll do it, I'll do it, and he's
like okay.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yep, that's how it started with me.
And my daughter is like, no,I'll help, I'll do it, I'll do
it.
And he's like, okay, yep,that's how it started with me.
And my daughter is like, goahead.
And now she's building the youknow the 18 plus you've bought
you know the flower ones.
She built it all by herself now, and she's six, about to be
seven.
All right, got a couple of.
I have a question for you,because I'm something that
intrigued by this.
You and your husband go to thecar shows together.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
For the most part we had been going together.
It's kind of become a littledifficult recently.
Our six year old has autism andit seems like I don't know if
there's just something changingwith him or if it's if he's just
(21:04):
had enough changing with him,or if it's if he's just had
enough, if he's like I'm donewith this.
But it seems like his patiencewith it and like he gets
overstimulated um a lot quickernowadays.
So now it's just kind of megoing and then them hanging out
at the house or at the hotel ifwe're, you know, traveling I can
(21:24):
, I can see that where it's likeyou know, because it's a lot,
it can be a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
You know those, those card shows I I'm assuming there
are some very, very one-of-onetype cards at these card shows
oh yeah how involved were you,whether it was just like through
the news or or whatever, withthe most recent, I guess, card
(21:49):
card?
I don't want to call it carddrama, like card.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Like were you keeping up with that?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yes and no.
Like I, you know, I saw thelike, the bounty that they were
offering on it and that sort ofthing, but I wasn't chasing it
or checking to see if it hadbeen pulled.
When I saw that it had, I waslike okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It reminded me of the same excitement from the Willy
Wonka movie.
I'm not with the card world,but it caught my attention.
If you find it in a pack andthen I remember I kind of like
wanted to go out and like buy apack of cards and see if it was
my lucky day.
Um, were you involved with,like, the card frenzy during the
(22:37):
mike trout when that when, whenthat card was being searched
for a few years ago?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
not really again.
Like my, my, the things that Icollect are normally like early
2000s and prior.
Um, I had like a brief, youknow, a couple of years where I
was um, buying the modern stuffand opening it and chasing all
(23:04):
the rookies and everything else,and then it just like the the
price on the newer stuff, likeit just wasn't fun anymore.
So like we were, you know, youspend a lot of money and it's
just like afterwards you're likeoh, I do not feel good about
that, like it's like eating awhole tub of ice cream.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
When you're doing it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You're like this is great.
Afterwards you're like why,Relatable, super relatable.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Now I'm curious about this card show thing.
When was the last time you wentto one?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It was a couple of weeks ago.
We to um one they had down inatlanta at the um like right
across from the ballpark andstuff.
Oh nice and do you live inatlanta no, we're about a little
over five hours out fromatlanta, so we tried to make it
(24:04):
like a weekend thing.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Wow, that's incredible and what was like one
of like the one of one cardsthat like was was there, like
the gold mine of cards that wasthere that day.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't know.
I saw a lot of like the vintagecards, so like the fifties and,
yeah, the ones that are pricey.
But my go to is it's these bigcardboard white boxes Like I
don't.
I don't even look at theshowcases anymore.
(24:42):
I'm like there's nothing inthere I can afford.
I'm going to go over here tothis box that has a $1 sign on
it.
But it would have to be one ofthe vintage cards that I know go
for a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
When you go to these shows or just overall, when
you're card surfing and thingslike that.
What's your unicorn Like,what's the one holy grail for
you?
Not like you know for everybody, but like the holy grail for
you.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So previously it was the Vince Carter that someone
gave me.
That was my grail that I waschasing, and then somebody just
sent it to me in the mail andthen I was like, does this mean
I'm done?
Do I just stop?
Do I stop?
you know, and so now it's justkind of like going through the
(25:35):
boxes and it's like, oh, I likethis one, I'll just add it to my
stack.
And you know, it doesn't really.
I thought it would like takeaway from the fun of it a little
bit.
But now it's just kind of likehow many?
How many can I put in a binder?
Like, how many can I collectnow?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
so.
So it's evolved from gettingthe card that you wanted to
let's see how many I can getinteresting, um, as far as, as
far as like for when it comes tothat now, like, do you, um, do
you, when you go to these cardshows, do you go specifically
(26:19):
for like one sport, like it waslike all right this weekend?
This is the cards that I'mlooking at, or, like you know,
whatever comes to mind, I'mgonna go ahead and get it um,
not usually so before christmas,so any card shows that I went
to, probably october, november,december.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I was focused on just finding um andrew jones cards
so my husband collects andrewjones.
He has a binder that I think heonly needed.
I think he had like 70 that heneeded to like completely fill
it front to back, and so my goalwas only to look for that, yeah
(27:02):
for his like, his, like part ofhis Christmas present.
Um, but normally it's justwhatever I can.
Whatever I've come across isI've.
I tried to make a list, youknow, of like cards that I were.
I was chasing and it just itwent off the rails so fast.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I'm like this isn't on the list list, but kind of
like it so to that point, as faras, like you know, the
collecting of the cards andthings like that, like, do you
set yourself, like a, a, abudget, a limit?
You know it all.
Right, I'm not going over thismuch.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yes, that's something that I kind of talked about on
Twitter God, it was probably amonth or two ago, because it's
so easy to let it get out ofcontrol.
I mean you can ask anybody,because there's, especially
(28:07):
after COVID, there's been thisthing that there's money to be
made in sports cards.
There are people that do, andthey do really well for
themselves, but they work at it24-7 almost.
For the rest of us it's peoplethat do, and they do really well
for themselves, but I mean theywork at it 24, seven almost.
(28:27):
For the rest of us it's.
You know once that money's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, once it's gone, it's gone.
You ain't getting it back.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, so I had to.
Um, actually what I do is Itake a portion of my paycheck
and put it in a separate accountand use that.
I mean not even just for buyingcards, but card supplies, using
(28:55):
it to contribute to likethey're called racks.
But so you know, when they giftother collectors a card they've
been wanting and that sort ofthing, um, all of that comes
from the same account and onceit's empty, it's empty until the
(29:16):
next replenish again.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Okay, I lied, I do have a small collection.
And then I know I have a 94tops box or a box of 94 baseball
cards from 94 unopened becausethat was the year of the strike
so I don't want to open it.
So maybe offline we can gettogether and see what I have.
And I've got a lot ofbasketball cards in here.
(29:43):
Actually this is all basketball, so we can chat offline and see
if there's anything ofbasketball cards in here.
Actually this is all basketball.
We can chat offline and see ifthere's anything in here that
you like.
We've got Dennis Scott.
I saw Charles Barkley.
I'll look for a Vince Cartercard in here for you and see if
you have it Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I love looking through cards.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
We have six things.
I wouldn't call myself a cardcollector, though.
Like it's just a small boxcompared to what you have.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Well, mine started out was a small box.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And it quickly.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Snowballed.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Have you counted how many you have?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
No, there's no way that I possibly could.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, don't do that.
My wife was like one day sheasked me how much do you spend
on average per hat?
I'm like, oh, we're doing this,aren't we?
I'm like, okay, are you sureyou want to do this?
Because once we go that route,you're like you cannot take that
away, and so we stoppedcounting.
I hope you guys enjoy thisepisode with ashley.
(30:47):
Now make sure you guys arefollowing her on all the socials
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Make sure you guys arefollowing also val and myself on
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We're on threads, we're oninstagram, I'm on facebook.
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Okay, and lastly, make sure youguys are sharing this episode
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with one more person.
Okay, Now come back next week,because we will find out whether
or not our good friend galbecomes another collector of
cards.
God help us.
Gotta go.
I guess I'm still learning.
Maybe that's why it's soexciting, but I think if I
started earlier I'd just have awhole lot more cards.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Way too many, just too many for the both of you, I
know.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You see anybody there .
Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, all right.
Well, welcome everybody to yetanother episode of the DadHack
Chronicles.
My name is Ed, also known asthe DadHack, With me, as always,
my co-host, my good friend ValStadium Food Girl.
What's going on, girl?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hi, nothing much.
I'm so excited.
It's another Monday but I getto talk to a new guest, and
that's always exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I know right, this one is a new one.
It's going to be a new one forus, so we're excited for this
one.
But before we get started, Iwant to make sure that everybody
that is tuning in tonight orwhenever you are listening to
this wonderful podcast, makesure you guys are following us
on all social medias and makesure you also catch us.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 PMEastern time, that I go sports
show, which is on YouTube, andVal maybe show may.
(01:11):
She may show up one day.
You know now that baseballseason is really getting started
, she might definitely show upand talk some conspiracy
theories with us.
What do you think about?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So so cringe.
Yes, I'll be ready.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It'll be extra tinfoil this season, extra
tinfoil this year.
Okay, sounds good.
I like it All right, so with usgood tonight.
Well, on the show we havesomeone who is a collector.
We met through this wonderfulworld of social media, through
Twitter.
Ashley, your handle is junk waxqueen.
(01:46):
Um well, first of all, welcometo the data chronicles podcast
thank you, glad to be here loveit.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I was just listening to y'all show going to pick up
dinner, did you?
Yeah, like just like 15 minutesago I was like, oh, they're
really good.
I'm very nervous.
No, we're not, they're reallygood.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'm very nervous.
No, we're not.
We're not good, we're just abunch of fans that love we love
sports.
Definitely.
You know, love our sports.
And if you follow Val she isthe listen when it comes to food
items and all things foodrelated for baseball or any
sports you need to follow her.
That's the one right there.
So me, I just, I just likesports.
(02:26):
That's it.
I love sports.
My wife would think that I likeit a little too much, but you
know, it is what.
It is what are you going to do.
So we, what we want to do is wewant to first get started, we
want to get to know a little bitabout you.
And then my very first questionto you, if you don't mind, what
got you into card collecting?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So my husband was the one that got me into it.
You know, when COVID hit, wewent from kind of seeing each
other a few minutes a day to allof a sudden being in the house
with each other for months, andthat was new.
(03:07):
We had to find something to todo and he's been collecting
since he was a kid and he wasjust kind of like hey, you know,
do you want to rip some packswith me?
check it out.
I'm like, yeah, sure, and itjust it just so happened to be a
lot of fun.
It was something we got to bondover and, okay, I think it kind
of kept us from like you knowkilling each other yeah, yeah,
(03:30):
yeah I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, okay, so.
So that's I like that, that youknow the both of you bonded
over that.
No, your husband also has apretty big collection of uh,
sports cards as well he does.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He's um, he's kind of taking a pause on it lately,
kind of trying to reel him backin by buying him some stuff here
and there, like, oh look what Ifound for you.
But he's kind of switched gearson me a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, he's been collecting since once, since he
was a little kid, right.
So he was like maybe I'll takea little bit of a break.
Yeah, let me ask you, if youwere to put a number on his
collection, not yours on hiscollection, what would be that?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't even know, because it's like I'm very
organized with mine and so Ikind of tried to do that with
his and it was like just when Ithought I was making some kind
of progress, oh I found anotherbox, or his mom would pull a box
out of the attic and I'm justlike I just gave up.
(04:38):
It never stopped.
So I really don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Wow, I'm looking at your wall and I was laughing
when Ed asked that because Iknew it had to be a scary number
just off of looking at yourwall of he's the one that got
you into it.
I can only imagine yourcollection, but thinking about
the one that got you into it,what that number could be.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
But it's funny though , because we collect different
things.
He's more into the um, themodern stuff.
I mean he has like his olderguys that he collects, like
andrew jones, and that sort ofthing.
But I collect the older stuffand he's kind of still in the
newer side interesting, I see.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Interesting, I see.
So you fell in love with theolder cards, mm-hmm.
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
That's pretty cool.
When you're opening up a pack,what makes you decide where to
display?
I'm sure you have one of thosebinders right, Like with card
holders?
What makes you decide what toput in there?
What goes in which binder?
What goes on the wall?
What's a card that youreference to every day?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
um, so the wall was just um.
So the wall was just like itstarted out, kind of like a joke
, like a you know, everyone saysthat junk wax is useless, not
useless, worthless.
They're like it's worthless.
You might as well turn it intowallpaper, and I'm like that's a
(06:16):
good idea.
I had boxes and boxes and boxesof it laying around and I just
slapped it up there and for thewall.
It was just kind of like myfavorite favorite cards, as in
like cards I wouldn't miss if Ihad to leave it behind, and but
as far as like my collection,like I have a separate binder
(06:39):
for just my Vince Carter cardsand then everything else is
divided by sport in alphabeticalorder.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh my God.
So you were like you.
It's like, let me ask you thisDo you have a spreadsheet on it?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Not yet.
I've started working on it justbecause I got really tired of
coming home and being like ohcrap, I already have this one,
but it's have this one, but it'sit's a lot to.
It's a lot to try to get it.
You know all in one placethat's it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I can just imagine you're just like yep, I'm just
gonna start a spreadsheet, I'mall, I'm all for this now, I
don't know too much about cards.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I know that there's different brands.
Is there like the gold mine,like I know tops, obviously?
But then there's also like thecard giveaways at stadiums and
arenas, like I'm sure thoseprobably don't have like a Paul
Skeen's rookie card type.
I don't know if they areactually, but like is like do is
(07:43):
there like the gold mine oflike when it comes to brands for
cards?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That depends on who you ask.
I don't open a lot of modernproduct anymore Like I'll grab
like the flagship baseball everynow and then, like when it
comes out, just because it'shard.
It just depends on what youcollect.
Like, if you ask the people whocollect football, they're going
(08:11):
to say panini products, and ifyou ask the people who collect
baseball, they'll they'll saytops.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
but yeah, it just just really depends so each
sport has their own likefavorite brand that they
everybody follows more or less.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That really just has to do with which company has the
license for what product andwhat era you want to collect and
that kind of thing interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
What's yours for the four major sports basketball,
baseball, football and hockey?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's tough, because the ones that I like for
basketball, they don't makecards anymore.
If I had to choose, I'd sayTopps for all of them.
Now, the older cards Topps did.
They did some impressive stuff,I think.
But and like, for every time Iget a like, a nice looking tops
(09:13):
card from you know the early 90s, my husband's always like can
you believe?
This was like junk back in theday.
It was so cheap.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And I'm like I know, tell me about it, but do you
wish you you would have pickedup card collecting young when
you were?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
younger.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Um, well, would you?
And if you didn't like, do youthink what you would appreciate
it more?
Like you appreciate it more nowthan you did if you would have,
you know, started it when youwere younger don't really know
um, because it's funny, becausethe way my husband describes it
is his relationship with cards.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He said, um, card collecting is like the wife that
you've been married to for 50years you know's familiar, it's
there, you love it.
Sometimes you get a littletired of it.
Then he tells people that I'mstill in the honeymoon phase
(10:16):
with card collecting,everything's still exciting.
I don't know, because it's beenalmost seven years now, I think
, and it's still.
You know, I guess I'm stilllearning.
Maybe that's why it's soexciting, but I think if I
(10:37):
started earlier I'd just have awhole lot more cards.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Way too many.
Just too many for the both ofyou.
I know Do you focus on anyspecific sport or do you follow?
You just collect for all, likebasketball, football or baseball
.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I used to focus on just basketball, just because,
like, I thought that the cardslook better.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But here recently I've just I've been buying a lot
of baseball yeah, I just said Ilike that right yeah that's
pretty cool, though, like I meanthe fact that like you started
with basketball and now you'relike into getting in some cars
because I've seen you knowobviously I got to do a research
right and you're showing upsome of your baseball cards.
(11:25):
That's pretty cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, it just it kind of it comes and goes.
It's when I'm like when I'm ata show I mainly focus on the
baseball lately but like if I'mon eBay, it's just it's free
game, I mean, it's what?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
it's whatever, whatever you can get your hands
on.
Yeah, how much time do youdevote yourself to searching
cards now, like, let's say, likeyou know, obviously you got
your your show that you go to,but you also have, like you know
, when you look on ebay and youknow, marketplace, I'm sure,
craigslist, things like thatlike how much time do you spend
looking for cards?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
not really not a whole lot of time.
Um, mainly a lot of it comesfrom um twitter first.
So, like I'll see a card thatsomeone shared and I'm like I, I
really like that, don'tnecessarily like that player.
Let me go look and see, youknow, if there's that same card
(12:30):
for someone that I do collect.
Um, and it just kind of spiralsfrom there.
It just, you know, I'm like Iwonder if this person has a card
and then it gets out of control.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I get it.
I get it.
I mean I look, I don't know Val, I know, but I know I do Like I
look for hats like pretty muchevery day.
I got my websites that.
I look at and I'm there lookingfor hats all the time.
Did I buy them?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Probably not, but I shouldn't Earlier, ed, and I
never thought of this, that thiscould be be a thing.
But I'm looking at the wall andI think of the binders and I
think, like ed, you hadmentioned something about an
excel spreadsheet.
I did not think that that wouldbe something to create with
this hobby.
That's absolutely incredible.
(13:22):
When you come across a car, aplayer that you have more than
one like with with cards, do you, do you trade them, do you sell
them?
Like?
How do you go about that?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
lately I've been trying to find people who are
maybe like completing sets orwho collect that player too and
just kind of send it to themBecause I mean, nothing I'm
buying lately is, you know,crazy money.
So just kind of like, oh well,I know so-and-so is collecting
this or putting this settogether, I'll just pop it in
(13:55):
the mail for them.
But I'm trying to be betterabout not buying the same one
over and over again, becauseit's a lot of work buying it in
person.
You know it's hours of justdigging through boxes and it's
like okay, like normally I onlyend up with like two or three,
(14:15):
but lately it's kind of feltlike it's more like five or six
and you don't have to go intodetail about it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
But is there a card that you own that is worth a
pretty penny that you're justnot going to sell?
Or do you sell them when youknow you can get something out
of it?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So I don't really, I don't really sell cards like
that just cause I'm, I feel likea little bit of a hoarder, a
little bit Cause I'm like I getrid of it.
I'm like, but what if I really?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
miss this card someday like what if I need?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
it for something else , um, but I mean, there have
been some cards of like playersthat I don't collect that I'm
like it doesn't make sense forme to hold on to this Trey Lance
Zion Williamson.
I'm like these aren't reallypeople that I collect.
(15:12):
Might as well get rid of itwhile the money is there.
It's actually this one.
I have it out because I took apicture of it the other day.
You might not be able to see itactually this one and I just I
have it out because I took apicture of it the other day it's
(15:33):
a you might not be able to seeit.
It's a vince carter dunkin gonuts.
Um.
Is that a whole chain on it?
It is, um.
I bought it as a joke, um,because I always pick up my
husband about how I was going toput it on a necklace and wear
it all the time.
And that card was actuallygiven to me by somebody else, so
I will never get rid of it.
I told my husband.
I said if something happens tome you have to bury me with it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Good job yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Earlier did you say you have a Vince Carter binder?
Did I hear?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, I'm just going to go back to that.
That was just going to ask thatquestion too oh my goodness
yeah, um your favorite player.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
You just like the look of his cards the most a
little bit of both.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I like the look of his cards.
Um, his cards are a little bitmore affordable too, so that was
definitely like a a factor, youknow, because, like kobe and
yeah, well, those are yeah yeah,they're up there wow
(16:36):
interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, you know, I just never really thought about
it this way, right, like I mean,I'm trying to put myself in a
way and was like all right, soinstead of me collecting hats,
it's collecting cards.
It's pretty much the same thing, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I go ahead I cannot pick up another thing to collect
.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I know, I know so interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
What do you collect now?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What doesn't she?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I collect a few things Bobbleheads, pins,
actually, no Okay, wait, hold on.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You collect jerseys too.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Bobbleheads, pins, hats and jerseys.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Okay, do you just fly them everywhere?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Okay, hold on.
Final list.
Final list.
I'm sorry I forgot the mostimportant one.
Souvenir cups those getdisplayed, okay.
Pins those get displayed.
Bobbleheads those get displayed.
Jerseys Some I don't wearbecause a lot of them are
(17:41):
autographed, but some I'm like.
I also vlog, so I buy thejerseys so that I can wear those
to the stadiums.
Like, if I'm going to an A'sgame, I'll wear my A's jersey,
if I'm going to an Angels game,I'll wear my Angels jersey, but
some are just special to wear.
And then hats I always buy ahat every time I go to a new
stadium, so I usually do wearthem because they're like 30
bucks so I really should wearthem.
(18:02):
Who?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
are you telling well over 600 hats right here?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
those are usually full.
I still put into kids like kidslarge kids actually, so I'm not
spending too much but.
I feel expensive, like I saidthanks.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I stopped wearing kids a long, long time ago.
I'm six foot two, okay, so it'slike I can't.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I can't wear, you know, kids, anything, youth,
anything but yeah, I can't pickup another thing to collect, but
this sounds so interesting,especially because I love
organization, so if I can findsomething else to collect that
requires organization, that justscratches my brain in such a
good way.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I already have too many things that I'm collecting.
If you see, right now I have alot of Legos in this office.
I build them and collect theLegos.
Yes, I do.
I know Baseball.
So, like you know, the onething that I do now is and it's
like to your point, val is Istarted collecting pins when I
go to the ballpark.
(19:00):
So if I go to the ballpark,then I'll buy a pin there.
So that's something that I do.
Minor league baseball it's howwe are.
We love our minor leaguebaseball, but as far as a hat, I
will only buy a major leaguehat if I'm at that ballpark.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh, okay.
Yeah, see, we're all crazy, weall justify one way or another
we all got our, you know, we all, you know, justify one way or
another.
Oh yeah, no, my husband, whenhe took a break from cards, he
picked up lego collecting.
I, just, matter of fact, I gothim one coming from ebay.
Now it's the?
Um.
You know the scene in jurassicpark where the breakthrough yes
(19:43):
got him that one coming in themail kind of excited about it I
should show it like we should.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Me and your husband should talk.
I have a bunch of cars and thenI have nothing but star wars
all over this house, all of hisoffice, star wars.
I got my wife.
My wife started building, mydaughter builds lego.
So yeah, it's a family thingnow.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, him and my, him and my three-year-old built the
Legos together.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He's got some patience, because I couldn't do
it Not with, not with the kids.
Like I can do it alone,perfectly fine, but like
watching him.
Like she's like no, I'll help,I'll do it, I'll do it, and he's
like okay.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yep, that's how it started with me.
And my daughter is like, no,I'll help, I'll do it, I'll do
it.
And he's like, okay, yep,that's how it started with me.
And my daughter is like, goahead.
And now she's building the youknow the 18 plus you've bought
you know the flower ones.
She built it all by herself now, and she's six, about to be
seven.
All right, got a couple of.
I have a question for you,because I'm something that
intrigued by this.
You and your husband go to thecar shows together.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
For the most part we had been going together.
It's kind of become a littledifficult recently.
Our six year old has autism andit seems like I don't know if
there's just something changingwith him or if it's if he's just
(21:04):
had enough changing with him,or if it's if he's just had
enough, if he's like I'm donewith this.
But it seems like his patiencewith it and like he gets
overstimulated um a lot quickernowadays.
So now it's just kind of megoing and then them hanging out
at the house or at the hotel ifwe're, you know, traveling I can
(21:24):
, I can see that where it's likeyou know, because it's a lot,
it can be a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
You know those, those card shows I I'm assuming there
are some very, very one-of-onetype cards at these card shows
oh yeah how involved were you,whether it was just like through
the news or or whatever, withthe most recent, I guess, card
(21:49):
card?
I don't want to call it carddrama, like card.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Like were you keeping up with that?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yes and no.
Like I, you know, I saw thelike, the bounty that they were
offering on it and that sort ofthing, but I wasn't chasing it
or checking to see if it hadbeen pulled.
When I saw that it had, I waslike okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It reminded me of the same excitement from the Willy
Wonka movie.
I'm not with the card world,but it caught my attention.
If you find it in a pack andthen I remember I kind of like
wanted to go out and like buy apack of cards and see if it was
my lucky day.
Um, were you involved with,like, the card frenzy during the
(22:37):
mike trout when that when, whenthat card was being searched
for a few years ago?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
not really again.
Like my, my, the things that Icollect are normally like early
2000s and prior.
Um, I had like a brief, youknow, a couple of years where I
was um, buying the modern stuffand opening it and chasing all
(23:04):
the rookies and everything else,and then it just like the the
price on the newer stuff, likeit just wasn't fun anymore.
So like we were, you know, youspend a lot of money and it's
just like afterwards you're likeoh, I do not feel good about
that, like it's like eating awhole tub of ice cream.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
When you're doing it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You're like this is great.
Afterwards you're like why,Relatable, super relatable.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Now I'm curious about this card show thing.
When was the last time you wentto one?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It was a couple of weeks ago.
We to um one they had down inatlanta at the um like right
across from the ballpark andstuff.
Oh nice and do you live inatlanta no, we're about a little
over five hours out fromatlanta, so we tried to make it
(24:04):
like a weekend thing.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Wow, that's incredible and what was like one
of like the one of one cardsthat like was was there, like
the gold mine of cards that wasthere that day.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't know.
I saw a lot of like the vintagecards, so like the fifties and,
yeah, the ones that are pricey.
But my go to is it's these bigcardboard white boxes Like I
don't.
I don't even look at theshowcases anymore.
(24:42):
I'm like there's nothing inthere I can afford.
I'm going to go over here tothis box that has a $1 sign on
it.
But it would have to be one ofthe vintage cards that I know go
for a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
When you go to these shows or just overall, when
you're card surfing and thingslike that.
What's your unicorn Like,what's the one holy grail for
you?
Not like you know for everybody, but like the holy grail for
you.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So previously it was the Vince Carter that someone
gave me.
That was my grail that I waschasing, and then somebody just
sent it to me in the mail andthen I was like, does this mean
I'm done?
Do I just stop?
Do I stop?
you know, and so now it's justkind of like going through the
(25:35):
boxes and it's like, oh, I likethis one, I'll just add it to my
stack.
And you know, it doesn't really.
I thought it would like takeaway from the fun of it a little
bit.
But now it's just kind of likehow many?
How many can I put in a binder?
Like, how many can I collectnow?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
so.
So it's evolved from gettingthe card that you wanted to
let's see how many I can getinteresting, um, as far as, as
far as like for when it comes tothat now, like, do you, um, do
you, when you go to these cardshows, do you go specifically
(26:19):
for like one sport, like it waslike all right this weekend?
This is the cards that I'mlooking at, or, like you know,
whatever comes to mind, I'mgonna go ahead and get it um,
not usually so before christmas,so any card shows that I went
to, probably october, november,december.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I was focused on just finding um andrew jones cards
so my husband collects andrewjones.
He has a binder that I think heonly needed.
I think he had like 70 that heneeded to like completely fill
it front to back, and so my goalwas only to look for that, yeah
(27:02):
for his like, his, like part ofhis Christmas present.
Um, but normally it's justwhatever I can.
Whatever I've come across isI've.
I tried to make a list, youknow, of like cards that I were.
I was chasing and it just itwent off the rails so fast.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I'm like this isn't on the list list, but kind of
like it so to that point, as faras, like you know, the
collecting of the cards andthings like that, like, do you
set yourself, like a, a, abudget, a limit?
You know it all.
Right, I'm not going over thismuch.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yes, that's something that I kind of talked about on
Twitter God, it was probably amonth or two ago, because it's
so easy to let it get out ofcontrol.
I mean you can ask anybody,because there's, especially
(28:07):
after COVID, there's been thisthing that there's money to be
made in sports cards.
There are people that do, andthey do really well for
themselves, but they work at it24-7 almost.
For the rest of us it's peoplethat do, and they do really well
for themselves, but I mean theywork at it 24, seven almost.
(28:27):
For the rest of us it's.
You know once that money's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, once it's gone, it's gone.
You ain't getting it back.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, so I had to.
Um, actually what I do is Itake a portion of my paycheck
and put it in a separate accountand use that.
I mean not even just for buyingcards, but card supplies, using
(28:55):
it to contribute to likethey're called racks.
But so you know, when they giftother collectors a card they've
been wanting and that sort ofthing, um, all of that comes
from the same account and onceit's empty, it's empty until the
(29:16):
next replenish again.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Okay, I lied, I do have a small collection.
And then I know I have a 94tops box or a box of 94 baseball
cards from 94 unopened becausethat was the year of the strike
so I don't want to open it.
So maybe offline we can gettogether and see what I have.
And I've got a lot ofbasketball cards in here.
(29:43):
Actually this is all basketball, so we can chat offline and see
if there's anything ofbasketball cards in here.
Actually this is all basketball.
We can chat offline and see ifthere's anything in here that
you like.
We've got Dennis Scott.
I saw Charles Barkley.
I'll look for a Vince Cartercard in here for you and see if
you have it Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I love looking through cards.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
We have six things.
I wouldn't call myself a cardcollector, though.
Like it's just a small boxcompared to what you have.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Well, mine started out was a small box.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And it quickly.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Snowballed.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Have you counted how many you have?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
No, there's no way that I possibly could.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, don't do that.
My wife was like one day sheasked me how much do you spend
on average per hat?
I'm like, oh, we're doing this,aren't we?
I'm like, okay, are you sureyou want to do this?
Because once we go that route,you're like you cannot take that
away, and so we stoppedcounting.
I hope you guys enjoy thisepisode with ashley.
(30:47):
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Okay, Now come back next week,because we will find out whether
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cards.
God help us.
Gotta go.
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