I guess for me I started out collecting them because I got a few of the cards in the DVD collectors box set. At the time I never really played any card games and somewhere it said that they would be collectors items. So I just started buying them a few at a time here and there. If I had someone to play against at the time I guess things might have turned out different.
In reality I never was a collector of comics are cards but these got me started. Now that I know of card protectors I have been messing around with them more, but wow its pretty complex. I guess another thing to is that I have epilepsy real bad so I keep waking up and not knowing I even have them sometimes for years. The last time I had looked at them before this last awakening was like 2004 or 2005. It opens up a Pandora's box for me. It starts to remind me of my past and my love of the movies. For me its almost like the movie ground
hog day, I keep forgetting my past and have to relearn it periodically. Then forget it even happened, talk about a mind job.