Straight Line of the Day: A collectible or memorabilia regret of yours is
To show where I’m going with this:
I saw the original “Bat Boy Escapes!” cover on the National Enquirer at the supermarket. I instantly recognized its awesomeness. I bought it. I asked my dad (the skilled craftsman) to frame it. He threw it out because it was stupid.
Me: “Why – – – – ?”
I had some really nice baseball cards, but, being a kid, didn’t keep them terribly neat – my closet was a mess! One day my mom got tired of it and tossed them all…
Not regretted: Gave a Confederate 50 cent coin as a birthday gift. Still, wish I had looked up the value first, would likely still own it.
Bought the first three Spiderman comics for a nickel each back around 1970, twenty years later (do to condition) sold for $200 to buy more trading cards during the boom. Just might get my fifteen cents back on that deal.
Shoulda’ never sold that old Shovelhead. Then I loaned all my R. Crumb comix
to a friend. Never saw them again.
I like to roam third world countries to collect “World Champion” t-shirts of teams that lose the World Series and Stanley Cup finals.
The only real value they have is that I didn’t have to worry too much during the great teepee panic this spring.
Wish I still had my 1950 Ford mail truck. Bought it for $50 in 1966. Sold it for $75 in 67.
A collectible / memorabilia regret of mine Is …
…not keeping that Little Orphan Annie secret decoder ring.
A Collectible / Memorabilia Regret of Yours Is …
…letting my cousin convince me that my beanie babies had been stillborn.
A Collectible / Memorabilia Regret of Yours Is …
…tje value of those Silver Shamrock halloween masks didn’t appreciate the way I expected them to.
A collectible/memorabilia regret of mine is…
…dumping my vinyl when I got the CD player.
I had the first edition of the board game Concentration. It probably got tossed during one of the family moves.
Not a regret since I couldn’t afford it at the time, but a comics dealer I visited about 45 years ago had a copy of Action 1 for $4 grand. Maybe VG condition, might have been valued at $3 grand at the time per Overstreet. Probably worth a half million now. Some things never change, I can’t afford it today either!
Buying that “RBG will save us” tshirt.
My Bruce Jenner All American Boy t-shirt from the ’76 Olympics.