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Rethinking your hobbies

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There’s also the nostalgia part . Sometimes we change as people and it’s very hard to let go of something that meant something keenly to us in the past. In fact, it can often go so far as to produce some joy in the present that’s in truth just an echo of what we once got a great deal of joy out of. It also may be that what you make merry about the hobby has changed – or, in your case, you now have this feel something in one's bones that you need to “bag” all of your comics to mummify conserves them when before they were something you read, cut up for art projects, mangled, threw under your bed, and “lived” with.

The closest relaxation I have in my own life to compare this to is Magic: the Gathering . For those unfamiliar, Magic: the Gathering is a trading be direct game, meaning that you can easily play a strategy of it with just a few cards, but there are literally tens of thousands of disparate cards available, each of which can alter the game. Players determine their own small sets of cards from their collection to with with, called decks.

Source: Christian Science Monitor

On the Job: For Him, It's All in the Cards

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Back in 1987, when Jerry Mudra opened his sports window-card shop in Santee, he had no clue about the rollercoaster lie the business was about to take.

Just months after All Star Cards opened its doors, the sports postcard biz went crazy, riding an unprecedented foam of inflation, interest and investments. Like the dot.com and stock trade in bubbles, people rushed into the card supermarket in hopes of turning cardboard into cash.

In the twinkling of an eye, investing in old Mickey Mantles and new Jose Cansecos was the hot talk, and reveal all shops and card shows were popping up everywhere.

After right-minded a few years, however, the bubble burst. Then, in the click of a mouse, the Internet changed everything. Overthrow in baseball’s steroid era and a recession, and Mudra has seen a complete production of the collectible card industry.

But, All Star Cards and Mudra are still here. The rollercoaster took some daffy turns, but Mudra never lost his balance.

“It’s dwindled to nothing,” says Mudra, 57, of the digit of card shops in the San Diego area. “In 1992, there were perhaps 80 stores in San Diego.” Now, he estimates the platoon is four or five in an area that stretches from Santee to San Diego and from Chula Vista to Rancho Bernardo. (Those are the utter card shops, the ones that focus on cards, not memorabilia.)

Source: Patch.com