One Huge Honking Set of NFL Football Cards That Are Useless To Me

One of the funniest eBay auction descriptions I’ve ever read was written by a thirty-something Mom who auctioned off a set of Pokemon cards on eBay after her kids snuck them into her shopping cart (and a H/T to Kris and Sarah for pointing Dawn Meehan’s blog out to me - it’s great!).

I love looking at auctions on eBay, primarily because I always enjoyed poking around at church rummage sales and eBay is, to my mind, the world’s biggest rummage sale.

Getting rid of old PCs that were new when Pong was a fad? Sell them on eBay. Looking for that one figurine you never found for your collection of purple carousel horses? Oh, yeah, you can find that on eBay.

Bought something that wasn’t what you expected?

Sell it on eBay — like I’m doing right now with something I bought that turned out to be totally different than I expected. Auctioning something off is vastly easier than burying one’s errors! Want to read the story? Click here to read about just how little I know when it comes to the wonderful world of NFL football cards.

Hint: Forrest Gump could thoroughly trounce me in terms of sheer knowledge in regards to anything relating to football trading cards. Or sports collectibles. Or sports memorabilia. Or sports. Or… well, you get the idea.

Oh, and thank you, Dawn Meehan, from the bottom of my heart. You set a great example to all the rest of us on how to admit that we need to get rid of something we know absolutely nothing about and shouldn’t have gotten in the first place. I just wish every eBay auction was as amusing as yours!