Three sports, three hanger packs

Shoppers today seemed a little crankier today while waiting for the poor cashiers to do their thankless jobs. It's contagious. I was getting cranky listening to the crankiness, so I wandered away form the cart and Mrs. TnT.  

Our store has two card sections, and I ended up at the display nearest the front of the store. Here they have the clearance packs, the odd new packs, but mostly the stuff no one wants anymore. 

I could see the look of disdain in her eyes as three packs were placed at the driver's end of the cart. What? I silently said. 

I don't remember if I had opened any of these Chronicles packs. It's hard to keep track. Let's see how this twenty bucks did. First up, basketball.




Interesting, but meh. Football time,




Indifferent.

Archives time,




Nothing spectacular. I guess my mini hot streak is over. 

What did this twenty bucks get me. It gave me an escape even if it was for only a little while. 

Thanks for reading and keep collecting. Let's try to keep positive. 
A collector since my early years. Sometimes a collector without focus. If it piques my interest I may collect it.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sunday chores Chronicled

Image
A quick Sunday post with nothing of real substance because its been a day of house repairs around here -plumbing and caulking.  How do two sinks in different rooms develop issues at the same time? Demons...  My, er, reward was a clearance pack of 2021 Panini Chronicles Football. Timely I reckon for week 18.  The pack wrapper had a huge ugly clearance sticker on it, so no picture.   Here are the base cards, The base cards are quite decent. Nice layout and good card stock. Here are the inserts, Uninspiring. Enjoy the games today!!
Read more

And so it begins...

Image
 It was a weekly routine for my brother, parents, and I to visit my grandparents just about every Saturday evening in the winter months. Watch some Toronto Maple Leafs action and get caught up on life and such.  For some reason (out of the ordinary) on the way home we stopped at a variety store. This was one of the items dad bought, for me. I had never seen this before. Dad knew that as a 7 year old hockey fanatic that I would appreciate this surprise. What he didn't know is what he started. A lifetime of collecting.  1973-74 OPC pack.    TCDB image In the past 50 years, good grief , my hobbies have varied. Some were just fleeting, some are still on the periphery, and some have stuck. It is sort of why I chose the name of the blog. A little this and a little that. Cards, though, have been my hobby mainstay. As a dealer, show promoter, store owner, collector, and now a wannabe blogger.  I am not setting any crazy expectations for this blog nor my self. I wan...
Read more

Archives auto hit and some Buffalo culture

Image
While watching the Bills hang on to a win I had to rip the Archives blaster I picked up the other day. I'll get to that in a moment. I think the game against KC is going to be a close one. I'm not a fan of either team, nor am I a hater, but if I have to choose a team to root for it will be Go Bills! Now to the business at hand, seven packs of eight cards. Here's what we got, The expected four black parallels. A decent mix of players. Not too shabby. Next the three expected inserts. NO there is not a pink parallel of these . That's my scanner behaving badly. Good god, I will need to work on some settings.  And here we have a very unexpected auto! Sweet! Checking all of the usual places I cannot find pack odds for these. As of yesterday some sites were still listing the odds as TBA. Others did not even have them listed yet. If anyone knows please add in the comments below.  My overall take on this product is Topps Archives has been a little more casual in their "trib...
Read more