Last week, I wrote that one of my collecting goals for 2020 was to create a more focused personal collection. With a little assistance from my past self and a whole lot of serendipity, I got a jump start on that goal quickly.
The Facebook message made the decision for me.
At first I was confused — ignoring the cosmic coincidence of it all, how does this person even know I have a Leaf DiMaggio? That’s where my past self comes in. A few months after I got my DiMaggio in fall of 2018, I had a crazy idea, something I referred to as a “revolving collection.” My idea was this: I would continue to have a personal collection with the cards I never intended to let go of, but I would ALSO have a collection of cards that I enjoy enough that I want to own them, but am not so attached to that I’d never part with them. For those cards, I would come up with a price that was a no doubt price for me to sell it, and price the card at that amount; if I ever got it, I’d sell the card, and reinvest the money in another card for my collection, and so on. In the meantime, I would get to enjoy historic cards in my collection for a bit.
My past self had the foresight to list the Joe DiMaggio on Facebook at that no-brainer price, and the listing had sat there since November 2018 until I got this message last week.
It was a little tough for me to part with the DiMaggio, but I made a decent amount on the card, which is going to enable me to get another card for my collection. That card may be something for one of my personal collections — a new Duke Snider or Jackie Robinson would do the trick — or it might be a fresh card for my revolving collection, which I would price and let sit like I did with the DiMaggio. But either way, it will help me meet my 2020 goal of a more focused personal collection.
If you use tactics like the “revolving collection” idea, please comment and let me know!