As many of you know, I've been absent for a long time. Starting in 2010, my marriage started falling apart. In 2012, right around when I went absent, I started divorce proceedings. Well, my divorce was finalized in March of last year and I have been concentrating on life. I found faith in June of 2013, I have custody of my boys, am slowly working on becoming debt free, and I have been dating a wonderful woman whom I met at my church for the last nine months. As things have "slowed down" at home, I've decided to get back to my cards and this site that I missed so much.
When I came back, I cleared out my Organize and I started fresh. On Friday, I finished getting my Pistons cards into my Organize and I have been working on getting scans of all of my cards. It's taking some time, but as I scan them in I plan on making a Pistons Collection thread. Well today, I decided to go through my trade invoices and mark in my organize which cards came from whom. Yes, I do have O.C.D. Unfortunately, it may have turned out to be a kick in the gut reminder of my ex-wife.
My ex-wife was involved in my collecting from time to time, enjoying opening packs with me and often encouraging me to buy some cards. She never cared for the sorting or organizing of them; after they were put into penny sleeves she couldn't care less about them. That was until the divorce started.
At one point in time, because she was still living with me (I'm too much of a nice guy), she decided while I was at work to take some of my cards. Now, she didn't take all of them, just put some of them in a bucket and "hid" them. I eventually recovered my cards, but it appears that I did not recover all of them. She had told me she pawned some of my cards and lit some other ones on fire. I did not believe her because she's been known to tell a story or two. Well, I may have just gotten verification of her story.
I have only gotten through about eight invoices so far and there are already 31 Pistons cards missing and a potential six set cards missing (I haven't input my sets yet, so can't be sure). The total value of those 31 Pistons cards is only $54.90 and no one card worth more than $5.00, but it's not the point of the monetary value as much as it is the time I put into collecting and the memory of what may have happened to them.
Mind you, my room is a disaster. After the divorce I got the rest of the house cleaned and ended up throwing a lot of stuff in my room. There is a faint possibility that I have misplaced those cards. But I feel there's a better chance that what she says she did to them actually did happen. And with only having gone through eight invoices so more (245 more to go), there's a possibility that there are a lot more missing. These invoices are from my most recent trades (7 of which happened in 2012) and at times I would open them and they would sit on my card shelf. So I may not see many missing from later invoices.
Anyways, I wanted to explain if I hadn't before why I had stepped away. Even if I never find those cards, I know they don't mean anything in the grand scheme of things and I can replace them (none were numbered, autographed or had a jersey...so far). I was also curious, though it's a gloomy subject, if anyone had had anything similar happen to them and are willing to share.
I hope you all are having a wonderful day.
When I came back, I cleared out my Organize and I started fresh. On Friday, I finished getting my Pistons cards into my Organize and I have been working on getting scans of all of my cards. It's taking some time, but as I scan them in I plan on making a Pistons Collection thread. Well today, I decided to go through my trade invoices and mark in my organize which cards came from whom. Yes, I do have O.C.D. Unfortunately, it may have turned out to be a kick in the gut reminder of my ex-wife.
My ex-wife was involved in my collecting from time to time, enjoying opening packs with me and often encouraging me to buy some cards. She never cared for the sorting or organizing of them; after they were put into penny sleeves she couldn't care less about them. That was until the divorce started.
At one point in time, because she was still living with me (I'm too much of a nice guy), she decided while I was at work to take some of my cards. Now, she didn't take all of them, just put some of them in a bucket and "hid" them. I eventually recovered my cards, but it appears that I did not recover all of them. She had told me she pawned some of my cards and lit some other ones on fire. I did not believe her because she's been known to tell a story or two. Well, I may have just gotten verification of her story.
I have only gotten through about eight invoices so far and there are already 31 Pistons cards missing and a potential six set cards missing (I haven't input my sets yet, so can't be sure). The total value of those 31 Pistons cards is only $54.90 and no one card worth more than $5.00, but it's not the point of the monetary value as much as it is the time I put into collecting and the memory of what may have happened to them.
Mind you, my room is a disaster. After the divorce I got the rest of the house cleaned and ended up throwing a lot of stuff in my room. There is a faint possibility that I have misplaced those cards. But I feel there's a better chance that what she says she did to them actually did happen. And with only having gone through eight invoices so more (245 more to go), there's a possibility that there are a lot more missing. These invoices are from my most recent trades (7 of which happened in 2012) and at times I would open them and they would sit on my card shelf. So I may not see many missing from later invoices.
Anyways, I wanted to explain if I hadn't before why I had stepped away. Even if I never find those cards, I know they don't mean anything in the grand scheme of things and I can replace them (none were numbered, autographed or had a jersey...so far). I was also curious, though it's a gloomy subject, if anyone had had anything similar happen to them and are willing to share.
I hope you all are having a wonderful day.
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