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My brother has a few boxes of unopened baseball cards from the 1980s.

They're not worth anything.

We also have star wars cards from the 70s. To worn to be worth anything, but they brought a lot fun to young me.

If you collect things I feel you should do it because you enjoy it. Collections for collections sake always puzzled me.

Also Beanie Babies. And a bunch of other "collectables". That market crashed. Its very hard to predict.

LEGO is smarter than all of those companies, though, because there's always a couple unique pieces in larger sets, and those are the insanely expensive ones. The part-out value on Bricklink is useful for this.

Agreed, but a lot of collecting involves talking the monetary value of the collection. Some people will never sell it, but they will tell you - with some sort of pride, even - the thousands of dollars it is worth.

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