This weekend my ex-mother-in-law finally gave us my (now deceased) ex-husband’s extensive collection of sports cards. He had wanted J to have them at some point, and that’s great. A few issues I am having though, are:
1.) they are mostly thrown into an old beat up trunk, and it is quite full
2.) they are not at all organized
3.) Its a little more emotional than I anticipated.
We are trying to at least get them into some sturdy plastic bins and stack them (instead of just throwing them in there) until we can figure out what to do with them. As I am stacking them, all I can see is the money that could have been used to pay rent or for food or some other need at the time they were bought. You see, my ex (who suffered from mental illness) would go to the store as soon as he cashed his checks and buy decks of these cards before any bills were taken care of. There were plenty of times, that we had very little to buy necessities with.
Ugh. I know I probably shouldn’t feel that way over cards. So now to figure out what to do. I can’t see letting my son keep ALL of the cards. Hubby and I talked about organizing them as much as we can , saving some to give to him, and selling the rest, putting the money into a savings account or something for him. I want to try to be sensitive to how J might feel later on, if we were to sell part of them…so I have some prayin’ to do over it for now. Time to get back to straightening them out 
