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It took a bit but in June I was finally able to grab a couple random card lots on Facebook Marketplace, one of my favorite things to do for the combination of entertainment value and potential for my collection plus trade bait. Although I technically made my first Facebook purchase back in March , these two buys were the first miscellaneous lots I was able to secure in 2026. First, on Saturday,…
It took me until early August to post this but tonight I'm finally giving you a recap of the much-hyped June show and meetup! It was another amazing one, as you can tell from this picture of me, John , Jeff , and Jason , plus Jason's wife Sam. I headed west to Kalamazoo, picked up John, and got us over to the Wings Event Center, a place that's hosted this show a number of times. This one was…
I'm back from a quick vacation down south (possibly more on that in a future post as it did involve a baseball game and related card purchase), and tonight I'll be posting my pickups from the first of the two shows I attended in June. This was the usual monthly one at Taylor Town Trade Center, whereas next time I'll recap the big meetup in Kalamazoo. If May's $170 spending made up for the paltry…
It sure does make your day that much nicer when you're already excited to go to a card show and then you get to meet up with a bunch of friends too! I'll cover more about the show in particular in an upcoming post, but today I'm covering cards that were gifted to me by one of those very cool people. Here's a look at all of us at the 6/20 show in Kalamazoo. I'm on the left, followed by John , Jeff…
How about some late evening Independence Day posting to catch up a bit? One of my favorite combo bloggers/ TCDbers is Bo of Baseball Cards Come to Life . I especially enjoy his posts on the '85 Wendy's/Coke and '88 Domino's Tigers cards, for obvious reasons. Well, after I sent him a '67 Topps Poster he asked about after I made it and others available in a show recap, in June he was nice enough to…
I've got July's monthly show coming up tomorrow so it's about time I covered the one from May! I haven't had much interest in blogging lately, partly thanks to coming back from June show #2--a fantastic meetup with friends, more to come on that--with a ton of cards but also a cold. Also, I got a Switch 2 and Donkey Kong Bananza is amazing. Oh, and I picked up a pair of fun Facebook lots last…
I've got a second June show to get to tomorrow, which will be another fun blogger/TCDb meetup, so before then why don't I catch up on my mail from May? The other blogger trade package I received last month was another gem from PWE specialist Matt of Sport Card Collectors . He sent me an envelope filled with quality Tigers during a month where the team was anything but. They went 6-22 including…
I don't do much collecting-related stuff on social media these days, and I'd say most of the little activity there I have is posting links to my latest posts here. That said, I do follow a number of collecting buddies and others in the hobby on Bluesky. After all, it's fun to see what other folks collect and think about cards, their favorite players, and other subjects, whether or not they also…
At long last (my fault) it's time to take a look at the most recent package sent to me by Doug of Sports Cards From the Dollar Store ! This one made its way to me back in April. Since then I've actually sent a response his way, only for him to have to return it because he was asked to pay something like $700 in taxes/duties. I'm still trying to figure out what category of goods to use on the…
My next April trade package came courtesy of Jeremy from Topps Cards That Never Were . He's primarily a fan of a couple teams: the Rays and Tigers. His Rays are currently sitting atop the American League with 34 wins. Meanwhile, the Tigers are...not. They're tied in dead last with the Angels, whom they're somehow leading in tonight's game as I write this. To describe the quality of this year's…
