1453: I've said it before, people collect some great stuff

Remember about 2 months ago, I tortured a bunch of people into writing 100 word posts so I could send them five cards?  Yea, I'm sure about 20 of you do...

Well, I learned a lot from that little exercise, the main thing being that collectors collect a lot of great stuff.

I learned a little more about a couple of collectors this past week in celebrating my 1500th post.  Both Don and Nick sent me lists of cards that they wanted for their COMC store credit.   It was interesting to say the least to see what they were after.

Don's list?  4 cards.  Quick and painless.  The key card was this one...

According to Don's email (if I read it correctly), this Frank Robinson card finishes off Don's 1970 Topps set.  Congratulations Don!

The other 3 cards were a 64 Topps Kaline, a 1952 Topps Frank House and a 1979 Kellogg's Tom Johnson.  Great stuff, and 4 cards for $20 made the shopping easy on me.

Now, I didn't want to give away the entire envelope for Nick, but I figured showing off these 3 '73 Kellogg's Pro Super Stars cards couldn't hurt.  I'm hoping that the purveyor of the Dime Boxes will take the time to show off the envelope he's getting on his blog, because there are some cool cards in there (and not all of them baseball!). 

Needless to say, I added some extra credit for myself to buy some cards during the spring cleaning promotion.  I bought cards for 3 of my PC's and still have quite a bit of credit to play with for some future needs.

Playoff contenders is a product that I'd never buy a pack of.  Never had any interest in it.  But adding the cards to my player collections is a no brainer.  This is one of 5 cards I added to my Joe Sakic collection, which I believe is closing in on 600 if it isn't there already. 

Love this card.  Can't mince words here, this card is a fabulous photo of Andrew McCutchen post swing.  Same as Playoff Contenders, Stadium Club is a product I never bought many packs of over the years, but adding cards to the PC's from this product is easy.

Felix Potvin is one PC that I would really like to build up a bit as I currently only have about 40 cards of his.  I bought 4 on this last order, with this 2003-04 Pacific Prizm card being the one that stands out the most.   The only thing that could have made it better is if Felix was still in a Leafs jersey at the time.

I've been pondering hitting a few want lists again by grabbing a handful of cards off of COMC and sending them out as a surprise.  Learning what people collect has been great so far and I'm looking to learn some more...

$1528-$75 COMC credit = $1453 left.  On pace to spend $1479 for the year.

Thanks for reading, Robert

1528: I never go home from the card show with this much money

Yesterday might have been a record breaking day for me.  I couldn't tell if I've ever only spent $25 at a monthly card show here in Florida. 

I did it on the cheap for sure.   Only picked up stuff that was necessary for PC's, SNIH, and set building.  Nothing fancy, just cards I needed.

Serial #'d cards.  If I need them, they'll come home with me.  The Potvin Totally Certified was an exciting find for me, I hadn't seen one before so there was no delay in adding it to the pile.  Don't yell at me, but Donruss/Panini is growing more and more on me.  2-LO jumped onto the pile as quick as Felix's card did.

This is another reason why I'm enjoying Panini more by the day.  Yes, they are missing logos, but the cards/photos that they are generating in a lot of cases don't make me notice.   This is a perfect example, and the high socks make it an even better picture.

A couple of cards for the Serial #'d Hockey set.  I didn't want to go too crazy with these, as I know Doug from Sportscards from the Dollar Store has a few to send my way.  I have a sinking feeling that Winnipeg will be one of the more difficult teams to complete, which is the reason why I grabbed the Pavelec.  I'll grab any Leafs serial #'d card quickly as well, even if I already have it for the SNI I'll just add it to the Leafs collection.

Hall of Famer jersey cards for $2.50 apiece.  On the pile they went.  Very quickly...

Sometimes I'm absolutely amazed by what I find at this show.  I had 0 intention of adding anything to my sets yesterday, but when the dealer told me that he'd make me a sweet deal for a stack of cards from the 83-84 OPC set, I went digging.  46 cards later (I mistakenly bought 3 dupes as my list on the web page was not properly updated), he asked for $5.  Can't go wrong there.

I scanned the Lanny McDonald card to show the NHL that they shouldn't worry so much about advertising on their jerseys.  Check out the Molson logo right above the Flames "C" (Rejean Lemelin is sporting the same jersey in this set as well).  Teams in sports all over the world are selling advertising on their jerseys, maybe it's time for the NHL (and other N. American leagues) to make a little more $$.

$1553-$25=$1528 to go.  Still a quite a bit of money left as we've already passed the 1/3 mark for 2017.  Still on pace to spend $1285 this year, so still quite a bit of breathing room just in case something pops out later in 2017.

Thanks for reading, Robert