Junk Wax Dig

Here's the haul! My dive back into sports cards has been fun. I've managed to find some lost gems, realize most of my junk wax is useless and made some great friends along the way. I've also been able to share a bit of my love with those around me, and a few months ago I found myself talking to a coworker about football cards. She is a pretty big football fan, but not really a card collector. Her husband is in the same boat, but a friend of his had given him a few boxes of cards a year or two ago. He held on to them for a while, but as they recently bought a new house they both realized they had no use for the cards. Hence, an email to me and a the P.E. teacher at the elementary school where I work. Him and I decided we'd simply split the cards. We are both big fans - especially football - and we didn't want to be the "I got here first" guy. So we decided to simply split them fairly evenly. On a recent trip back to the school where I wor...

New year, new me. Yes, I know that's cliche and lame, but that's how I am approaching my collecting in 2020. It was about 4 1/2 years ago that I dug my sports cards out of the basement and took some time to go through them. In that time, I discovered many retail possibilities for accumulating new cards. I could get them at Target, Walmart and even Walgreens. I started buying a lot of baseball cards, a good amount of football cards and some basketball cards. Then, I discovered Twitter's card community. It drug me in even deeper. I started buying for buying's sake, and suddenly I have piles upon piles of cards to sort. And this is AFTER I SORTED ALL MY BASEBALL CARDS. Sorry for the all caps, but it was that realization that made me reassess what it is I want out of this hobby. Accumulating numbers isn't it. Also new to my interests is that the spousal unit and I have decided to really crack down on a budget in 2020. We really want to wipe out some debt so ...