Your Quirky Hobby-Related OCD

[messier2]

For me, it's the price stickers on graded card sleeves! I MUST take off the sticker and ensure there is no sticker residue (this is done immediately after purchase or when I receive the card in the mail)! If there is, it's in the garbage and replaced with a fresh clean sleeve! This is for cards I'm holding in my PC or selling/trading.

Another thing is going through dollar boxes, I MUST go through the cards and place them face up and continue going through a stack. No upside down, wrong side, etc. cards!

What are your hobby related quirky-things?

[MyckKabongo]

All PC items must go in brand new penny sleeve, top loader or one touch, sfi exterior sleeve. Crystal clear, brand new, nary a scratch for every level of protection for my babies! Insisting on SFI exterior sleeve for literally every type of hard case probably qualifies.

Had to swap out Ultra Pro mags for Pro-Mold because the little bits of gunk on brand new UP one touches drives me nuts.

I hate the look of BGS 9s and below, only own a few and actively avoid buying any more.

[Nomad]

I dont ever look at the grade, unless it is gold label Beckett, PSA 10, or higher (never had a 10.0 HGA). If its a 9 or raw doesn't matter. Unless its vintage.

Ok. Wait. OCD is something you consistently do for no reason except it makes you feel good and you feel troubled and anxiety-ridden without doing it. That doesn't qualify.

Nesmith? Ye-es... but that doesn't really qualify because he was one of the most surprising year-on-year upgrade items in the league. Broke a couple pretty signficant playoff records (3 point percentage, most points in the fourth quarter*). So that's not really OCD. Too performance-based, if not yet financially, practical.

Maybe my form of OCD lies in going onto EBay, as if it's my office, and finding new rare and interesting AA issues. I've been doing that since his rookie year and yeah, if I am not going online and planting a few more dollars toward my investment every week I feel incomplete.

Not only that, it has got to be something that seems rare, new, or worth having multiple copies of and completing a set. To give an example the three gold (Artist's Proof and Hyper) Hoops rookies.


Levels of OCD here. First off, not completed the three golds. So the center row is confusing. Either need one in center or 3. And all the surrounding issues were a mishmash.


OCD issues resolved. Gold trifecta. Unified, ready to attack the rim.

It percolates on to the general collection. To display a card type as you would a page of quality stamps, you really need 9. So having 7 or 8 of something always bugs me.



The Black /25 on bottom left and right, though they look good, bug me. But I have all the major inserts from Contenders and Optic that I like in rare forms. So literally it's either sell as is or eventually fill in with 1/1s. And they don't make 1/1 Lottery Tickets to my knowledge, so it's hard.

Yeah, that's pretty OCD. But that's what I've learned as I get older. Channel OCD tendencies toward a measurable goal that others also see the value of.


*Oh wait that's not even true. "On May 10, 1987, Sleepy Floyd took over the game, scoring 29 points in the fourth quarter to set an NBA playoff record." So maybe it's most points in last 5 minutes of 4th quarter? That is both more impressive and less of a distinct record. I mean, the 5 minutes is arbitrary. Are we gonna demerit the next guy who scores 23 in the last 5.5 minutes?

[hermanotarjeta]

I like to wash my hands before opening wax.

[Nomad]

I washed myself of wax. It wasn't easy, it was so fun to see whole cases ripped, thinking I was going to finally hit a personal grail that would go for a hundred dollars.

Gambling can often bring out latent OCD traits actually, breaking as well?

[PLB9eight]

Originally Posted by Nomad

I dont ever look at the grade, unless it is gold label Beckett, PSA 10, or higher (never had a 10.0 HGA). If its a 9 or raw doesn't matter. Unless its vintage.

Ok. Wait. OCD is something you consistently do for no reason except it makes you feel good and you feel troubled and anxiety-ridden without doing it. That doesn't qualify.

Nesmith? Ye-es... but that doesn't really qualify because he was one of the most surprising year-on-year upgrade items in the league. Broke a couple pretty signficant playoff records (3 point percentage, most points in the fourth quarter*). So that's not really OCD. Too performance-based, if not yet financially, practical.

Maybe my form of OCD lies in going onto EBay, as if it's my office, and finding new rare and interesting AA issues. I've been doing that since his rookie year and yeah, if I am not going online and planting a few more dollars toward my investment every week I feel incomplete.

Not only that, it has got to be something that seems rare, new, or worth having multiple copies of and completing a set. To give an example the three gold (Artist's Proof and Hyper) Hoops rookies.


Levels of OCD here. First off, not completed the three golds. So the center row is confusing. Either need one in center or 3. And all the surrounding issues were a mishmash.


OCD issues resolved. Gold trifecta. Unified, ready to attack the rim.

It percolates on to the general collection. To display a card type as you would a page of quality stamps, you really need 9. So having 7 or 8 of something always bugs me.



The Black /25 on bottom left and right, though they look good, bug me. But I have all the major inserts from Contenders and Optic that I like in rare forms. So literally it's either sell as is or eventually fill in with 1/1s. And they don't make 1/1 Lottery Tickets to my knowledge, so it's hard.

Yeah, that's pretty OCD. But that's what I've learned as I get older. Channel OCD tendencies toward a measurable goal that others also see the value of.


*Oh wait that's not even true. "On May 10, 1987, Sleepy Floyd took over the game, scoring 29 points in the fourth quarter to set an NBA playoff record." So maybe it's most points in last 5 minutes of 4th quarter? That is both more impressive and less of a distinct record. I mean, the 5 minutes is arbitrary. Are we gonna demerit the next guy who scores 23 in the last 5.5 minutes?

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[Nomad]

Ive had my say, go at it.

[ninjacookies]

I only slow roll the first kard.

All LFG mojo chants are exactly that. El-Eff-Gee. Limiting it to the spelled out acronym makes me feel infinitely less douchey and in no way associated with broccoli headed Discord royalty.



Authentic from the seed.

[the mesiah]

I always take a pic of my raw cards in the one touch case with out the cover whether it be $1000 or $1 and the put them in a brand new one touch or brand new top loader with penny sleeve and put all cards in a case and sleeve them up

[Nomad]

A 100 card collection will eat up your space pretty quick. Welcome to the hobby.

[Beavers98]

Isn't grading the uniformity, registry etc., a major collecting OCD for many?? And PSA has capitalized on that.

[Ismael80]

Every time if get a nice patch card, i had to touch the actual game-worn patch.

[Ismael80]

Originally Posted by PLB9eight

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It's alright dude, he's a "professional fiction writer"

[Nomad]

Not quite true. As my dad always said, you're only professional if you get paid.

I only get paid for nonfiction to date, which is a much broader and easier market to enter (includes basically any freelance writer).

Which is not to say I do not have something similar to the Nesmith collection (one book, now split into two, part of a trilogy) almost ready for the agent to try and sell.

And from there I would like to work with Blowout to collect some of the best nonfiction writing here, making sure it doesn't offend. As a collecting saga. Like Gus Hansen's account of making it to the WSOP final table.

Right now we are just off the money. And anyway, who wants to cash out at a guaranteed 2x?

[boxbuster7]

I hate when people place a high dollar card without protection on one of those card stands

Also don't like when cards are in the wrong sized toploaders or mags

[PLB9eight]

Originally Posted by Ismael80

It's alright dude, he's a "professional fiction writer"

Definitely


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[Nomad]

Fiction? Speculative fiction at best. Always start with a grain of truth and then suggest an upgrade

For example, a client was planning this city in upstate New York, it was to be called Sino World or something. The concept was cool, language schools, hospital, but in the execution I saw it would just replicate suburban sprawl. The architecture was probably not gonna resonate with longtime locals as well, who could and would block it.

And so I said well, lets have S—B— world in China, 15 different cultures coexisting, living democratically, preserving hoods and the environment, and being heard. I'd invest in that.

So it's fiction, but more than that it's light satire, if I was gonna categorize.

Been thinking about OCD a bit...

I think that all supercollectors are by definition a bit OCD. That Kidd fan in Cebu, the supposed Rodman hoarder in China, that BO member with his Kobes. We collect our heroes.

And I with my Nesmith. But in the case of an active and improving player, the OCD foundation is mitigated by its speculative aspect.

And then there is the uplifting aspect, that is different from OCD. I don't know if I would still be patiently striving to better myself if not for the AA uplift when my spirits were flagging. Could have been a very bad news day, my credit card could have been cancelled, my car broke down, midlife crisis could have hit... and Nesmith simply by having a good game would buck me up. At least I have these grails socked away...

So yeah OCD is a negative term, as is hoarder, for a repetitive behavior. But what seems like OCD to the uninitiated (one's spouse/parents) can also be a positive.

For example, the person who religiously sleeves up and slabs even mediocre cards can easier sell them. They never get damaged, particularly if one has an OCD tendency to take cards out and let the shine of the light catch the original, unfiltered cardboard. So one sleeps better.

To be not OCD though, I would argue, one must be willing to sell at the end of the day, or at least give it away.

[Andy5]

Originally Posted by PLB9eight

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The ignore list is one fantastic feature 😁

[bas]

Don't like patch cards where the action picture is in a different teams jersey