What is Your Favourite Card? Why?

If you collect, you MUST have a favourite card, right? Not having a favourite card is like not having a favourite Aunt, it just doesn't make sense. All jokes aside, a favourite card of any sport you collect seems to be a necessity for many collectors.

We don't just have favourite cards for the heck of it. They have their own category of "favourite card" for a reason. Maybe it's because of the card's value. That may be one of the less interesting reasons but it's there. Usually there is more depth than value when it comes to having a favourite card. As we all know, people really like their money, but I think there is more to it with a favourite card. Could it be the memories it holds with it? That could be a serious contender with the vast options of why we have favourite cards. There are so many reasons....

For me, "memories" has to be the topic for my favourite card. Right next to "tradition".

I have a tradition with my brother..... Every Christmas my brother and I buy each other loads of awesome cards. We each spend well of $100 on each other. This event is not taken lightly. Then, on Christmas morning, we unload our cards on each other while exchanging gifts. There is nothing quite like it. This year, as one of my gift's, I received this beauty......

This baby brings back some awesome memories of Christmas..... But enough about me. What about you? I want to see what you guys have to say and show!

What is your favourite card? Why?

Why Do You Collect?

So here we are, all together doing one thing, collecting. Now, there is so much more to it and the community but why? Why do I take in these pieces of cardboard and treasure them? Is there a point?

Maybe it's for moments like this:

................... or is there a little more to it?

I have been in this hobby for a while, on and off, but I do question "why" every now and then. But here I am, the hobby always draws me back.

Not only is it just fun to get some cool cards but you find yourself getting lost in learning so many new things. Who is valued higher? Who is collected? What are products? There is so much to learn and it is intriguing. Every day you live in the card-collecting-world you learn more and more and you don't even know it. Maybe that is what keeps you into collecting......

Maybe you just love seeing those pretty cards and think to yourself "I want that". Or maybe you just want to have something with sentimental value. There are so many "maybe's" and too little answers. Is there an answer or is it something we all do for our own reasons?

Please do tell me what you believe and why you collect........