In1975 I threw away all my baseball cards and comic books?!
Question: If I had saved them would've I been rich?
Answers: If I had saved them would've I been rich?
It depends on what cards and comics were in your collection. If you had only cards and comics from the early 70s then you wouldn't be rich but you would have a nice collection. If you collection contained cards and comics from the 50s-70s then you would be closer to rich. If you collection contained cards and comics prior to 1950 and up then you would likely have been rich right now.. go figure!
Rich with money, or rich with love and friends. What is more important to you is the real question.
Do you realize how many Mickey Mantle rookie cards ended up in the spokes of bicycles? Bunches I'll bet.
Maybe not rich, but certainly comfortable. Especially, if
they were in mint condition. When we moved to the city,
my dad threw out all of my Elvis Presley records, etc. At
that time, all originals. He did that with just about everything
I had. Today, I would have sold them and made a pretty
penny. So, I know how you feel. Hindsight is great, isn't it?
Well pending on what you had....if they were crap no, they would be worthless still, varying from 1 to maybe 12 dollars, I am sure though most of what you owned may have significant monetary value now but it wouldn't place you on the rich scale...depends also what you consider rich
It depends on what you had, what kind of condition they had been kept in all this time. If you had major rookie cards from the 1960s and earlier in quantities of at least two or three each, a run of sets dating from 1975 back into the 50s, and Volume 1 comic books from Marvel and DC from the mid 1960s back, and everything was in true Mint condition, it all could be worth several hundreds of thousands.
If you had a shoebox full of loose, mixed cards and a box of assorted comic books, in the average condition the average kid kept them in, you wouldn't be rich. Depending on the star cards you had, you might net out a couple thousand selling the stuff on ebay.
What makes the really valuable stuff today valuable is that it is in Mint (or close) condition and there isn't much of it, because back then, keeping it mint wasn't given much thought to, and a large majority of it didn't survive closet and attic cleanouts, like yours.
That's okay...in 1983 I sold a box of complete Kenner Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back action figures (all weapons were included...along with all of the mail-order premium figures), Another box containing all of the ships and play sets...
...to a neighbor kid for $100.00...I kick myself everyday. Who would have thought that stuff would be worth money someday.
well you would at least have more money than you have now, you could have ended up like the 40 year old virgin where he sold all of his toys for a lot of money, but seeing as how you threw it all away, i would say you would be out of the virgin category