# Collection of cards. (Not the baseball cards or Pokémon type) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2026, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collection-of-cards-not-the-baseball-cards-or-pokemon-type/1033847 "2026-10-15T05:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collection-of-cards-not-the-baseball-cards-or-pokemon-type/1033847/1 "2026-10-15T05:00:54Z")
I have a boot box full of postcards from my Aunt. She gave them to me before she died. My mother was a prolific letter writer. I have letters she wrote to all her siblings when she was young married and following my Daddy to different duty stations. She also sent many post cards. The thing I like about them are her very tiny neat cursive, the subject of the note and/or the picture on the front. It’s funny, if she ran out of room for her thought she’d go around the margin of the card. She got a lot said in that one long curvy sentence. I love that. So…flash forward a couple years and I frequented flea markets and junk stores. Always found some paper ephemera. I looked for post cards. Always looking for that card from a person needing more room to finish their thought, and another sentence go on a trip around the card. Really excited if I found writing on the front of the cards Cannot believe the information people put on them, for all to see. Did they think it was private? My favorite is a white index card with a black and red ink pen. Starting in the center going around in a concentric circle, expressing his undying love for what apparently was his girlfriend. Had a heart postage stamp. There are the the folks who wrote the whole body of the note on an angle. Or cute hand drawn pictures. There was a mysterious series of cards I found folded in a magazine in a brown envelope. It’s stamped numbers. Not machine stamped, hand stamped. They are 5 cent pp cards. All are postmarked, so mailed to someone who saved them. I have decided it was mail chess game. Or similiar. Anyway, that’s my weird collection. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collection-of-cards-not-the-baseball-cards-or-pokemon-type/1033847/2 "2026-10-15T15:33:03Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I have a boot box full of postcards from my Aunt. She gave them to me before she died. That’s the less terrifying order of events. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collection-of-cards-not-the-baseball-cards-or-pokemon-type/1033847/3 "2026-10-15T16:04:00Z")
That’s a cute collection. Thanks for sharing. It would be neat in a historical archive someday! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/collection-of-cards-not-the-baseball-cards-or-pokemon-type/1033847/4 "2026-10-15T20:28:17Z")
Why thank you I also collect old hotel room keys. Well before they all went to card I was looking for ones that got inadvertently carried off. Stuck in a drawer and ending up in a bowl at a flea market for a buck. I’m goofy like this. 😁