WhatNot

was recently told about an spp called WhatNot. It looks to be a live auction platform and even won some 2021 Bowman Draft cards. Thisll ne one more tool on my arsanal to collectomg cards. Will probably still havecto seek out Ebay or Beckett for the vintage stuff. Updated the wants and Trades pages. Stay Frosty, Matt

Boxes

Happy belated 2022 everyone who still reads. Ive attempted many storage things for the cards over the years and while it seemed like vacuu-packing them was a good idea, I only have one complete set, so I gave the vacuum sealer away as it was collectong dust and have started buying these card-sized boxes from Wal-Mart. Now, they refer to these boxes as crayon storage boxes, but their big enough to fit even the '89 Topps BIG in them comfortably. Each box will hold roughly 62 cards, which is perfect since many of whats in the collection is under that. For the bigger sets I bought a dremmel, cut the bottoms off, and hot glued the boxes together and that works wonderfully. The second set im close to completing is 1988 Topps, which currently spans ten boxes. I know Ive said it multiple times over the years when I received that huge box of cards but I never thoight it'd take this long to sort through em. I'll be making some changes here to the site soon to set up a sell form to buy cards from folks since that was a thing some time ago, and is something I can do now. Be well, Matt

So the Time has Come

So the time has come for Topps and Panini to hang their hats on producing cards. True it doesn't take place for a few more years but I'm rather said. Sad that Fanatics didn't go after Upper Deck or Donruss instead. The even sadder part will be how much more worthless Topps cards will be once all of that happens. Not sad for me since I collect anything under the sun, but for the other collectors out there that stick to one company or team or whatever. To that regard I think I'm going to open a card shop. Why? Because I'm not greedy and want to see the glory days of Baseball Card collecting, even if it isn't with glory day card material. Not much in collector news. I see more cards up for pennies on Ebay but that's about it really. My luck the card shop crashes and burns like everything else but hey, the blog's still here at least. Happy October folks, Matt

2020 Topps Update

Just a note that want list for 2020 Topps Update is now up.

Update

Updated the want list with some more cards - new is next to em ^_^

2020

So 2020's been an interesting year for alot of folks, myself included. Home base is going to permanantly be TN, no more of this running around the country on a whim(thanks folks). I've also pretty much given up on anything outside of here in attempting to promote the blog. If folks come, they come. If not, oh well. The 3d printer idea was nice houwever, the boxes broke during moving because of how thin they are because of the limitations of the machine, so I bought a vacuum sealer and have had better luck(straightened out some of the cards as well). I'm seeing this as the only sure fire way to preserve the card sets since no air or water or anything can get to them. That said after this note I'll be updating the wanted cards list as that's kept me occupied. I've been hesitant to put them up but I also know that silence on here means folks ignore here and can't have that :D Was also recently given an Iphone 6s set up for straighttalk by my sister's husband and the service has been wonderous, so picture will come out that much clearer hopefully. 

Here's to 2021, card on!

When I knock on it, it sounds like a hollow tree :D
That's a complete set of 1987 Topps

Not Dead Yet!

Hiya folks! 2020's been an off year for me and 2021 doesn't look to be any better. That said, I'm still here and still collecting cards even though we're still in the middle of what can only be described as half-end times. So the first thing was President Trump passed a stimulus to qalifying residents of the USA and territories(not many knew that). Many went out and bought a bigger tv while others attempted to bank pile it only to discover that they couldn't or their branch went under, etc... I bought a 3d printer and some fillament while waiting for the price of diesel to drop(and it did for awhile). I bought the EasyThreed X1 for $100 off Amazon and two rolls of fillament for $50. What does a 3d printer have to do with this blog? Well for a time I was tossing back and forth how I was going to go about storing the cards that are in the collection in a way where they wouldn't get damaged. Now, the print bed on the X1 is 100x100x100mm which is fine for what I need it for, so I opened up Sketchup, put together a card box, put some pins in it, a top rail, and split it up before sending it to Blender to convert to STL before sending it to the printer's software that uses gcode. It's alot simpler when you do it a few times.

Below is a pic of the X1, and the front part of the card box i printed. If anyone has a 3d printer and wants the STL files to make your own, message me and I'll send them along as they'll work with other types of cards not just Baseball.