Collecting This 'n' That

 Another week has flown past, and seems like I got nothing accomplished. Returning to life and work after last week's flu-thing and walking right into a decent snow event on Thursday. In our town we shoveled a fresh 12". Some of my co-workers reported up to 20" in the higher country. As I write this another snow event is happening. By mid-day tomorrow another 12" should be on the ground.  Enough of that, let's look at some new to me cards. A shopping trip at the store of  Papayanz through TCBB brought us this assortment.  This set is now within two. If I decide to pursue the other years I think I will just purchase complete sets. These are a costly pain to ship piece meal for the sellers, and the corners take a beating.  Some cool randomness in this bunch. Yup, that's an RC of Wagner.  The 90's Blue Jays just never seem to end. The last time I checked I was ranked 6th on TCDB for Jays with 12,500 or so unique cards. But it feels the wantlist is messing w...

 A cold or flu certainly wreaks havoc on a household. The children had it and now Mrs. and I are down with it. Cards have kept coming into the house this past week but with no energy or motivation to show them off we have this half-hearted post today.   A little envelope with a purchase I made through TCDB with  tinyzinterfere that I have done business with at least a dozen times begins things.  Chipping away at some random sets with this bunch.  The highlight of this deal is this 2020 Stadium Club - Rainbow Foil, numbered out of 25. When Randal became a Blue Jay in 2018 I became a fan and started the one and only player specific binder in my collection. Even though he has left the team and fallen off my radar, I'll grab his short printed/numbered cards when the price is right.  This little lot of early 1900's cards came in. A couple are in rough shape, but they were cheap enough. To the type binder they go.  The final item that arrived this week...

Happy Groundhog Day, if you celebrate it. Today we have the culmination of the TCDB lot purchase we started yesterday These are all set build cards unlike yesterday which was Blue Jay team set heavy. Good progress was made but nothing gets me over the finish line though. 2019 A&G is down to 12 to go.  The same for 20 A&G, a dozen to go. I am not sure why but I still keep chipping away at Capstone.  2020 Archives got a lot of help here. 8 to go. The seemingly random GPK are 1986's. I like to pick up vintage non-sports when available cheap.  My love of artsy cards extends into football as well. the 2014 Topps Valor is such a nice set. 80% done. I had never seen these cards until they were the Random Card of the Day a couple of years ago on TCDB so I ordered a hobby box right away. Damn nice cards.  The 2012 Ignite set is down to one card. Next COMC order should finish this.  There had to be some vintage included. Here are the few that were available that h...

One of my favorite approaches for growing the card collection is through bulk buys. Not from one of the usual places mind you, but through TCDB. What?!  Occasionally members will take to posting on the forum that for whatever reason they have become motivated sellers. This is good for me as I have an extensive wantlist set up in the system. With a few clicks away we go and I await the lot price.  I reckon that in the past three years I have made over 100 purchases there. From a handful of cards to a 5300 card buy. All from trusted and reputable members so it really takes the worry of being swindled out of it.  Here is the first one of these deals of 2025, from member  80s90sHoopHead  ,120 cards all from my wantlist. All killer, no filler! I've broken this into two posts as there is so much good stuff to show. We'll go oldest to more recent baseball in this first part.      A ton of empty slots in the Blue Jay binders getting filled.  The Cruz...