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To celebrate my 2,000th post, I threw out cards

This is post number 2,000. Good gosh, how many words is that? Thanks for reading, enjoying and commenting. You'll be happy to know there is a contest attached to this. But I'm not sure if you'll want to enter it. Part of what I did on my vacation last week was to organize some cards. I am continuing to inventory my cards, and as I plod along on a task that's taken me years, it's pretty clear that I have far more cards than I thought I did. This was also evident as I also organized two large boxes of duplicates. In fact, that part of the organizing distressed me so much that I actually threw out a bunch of cards. This is something that I'd never do before, but I think it was necessary. I have no more room for any "extra" cards. The barn is full. And as I stared at those duplicates, stacks and stacks of 1990 Topps and 1989 Fleer, I knew that I could never get rid of them. I've tried it all, trades, charity, garage sales, and there are ju...