Purchase & more from Ted

I bought a bunch of 1973 Topps for my set collection from Ted over at “Crinkly Wrappers”,  He just finished his ‘73 set so he checked out my want list told me how many and set a great price for me.  It was a huge boost to my ‘73 set.  Big thanks for that Ted.

I fill my player collections first, then team collection, then my sets.  So all of the above White Sox, even though are ‘73’s are going to my team collection.  So I still need the above for my set.

Ted is an awesome guy because he threw in the following cards as well.

I thought I had most of the 2010 Upper Deck’s but apparently not.  I needed all of the above for my team collection.  I always love team cards and the oddball Post Frank Thomas.  Great cards.

He also sent me a small stack of Colts cards which included these 4 Peyton Manning cards for the Manning player collection.  Great to still see him in a Colts jersey.

Thanks again Ted, you’ve been a huge help to my ‘73 set.  Be sure to check out “Crinkly Wrappers” and hit Ted up for a trade, he’s great at them.

 

 

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Autopilot

I know I haven’t been around much.  Just kind of on autopilot around here but that’s probably how it will be for awhile.  I haven’t bought packs for myself since probably December.  I’ve gotten in JABO’s box breaks in order to get some 2012 cards.  I got the flagship and Heritage and have signed up for Gypsy Queen.  I need to get some Opening Day but that probably won’t happen as I’m pretty much stopping all trading (except you Dennis, but you will have to wait a bit).  The packs are cheap enough but I haven’t been able to find single packs at Walmart when I go in.  All they’ve had is the rack packs and blasters.  I was hoping just to pick up a pack here or there, give them to my son to open and keep with the agreement that any White Sox cards are mine.

I received some bad news a few weeks ago so I have put a stop to most of my buying.  The Cheap Ebay posts you’ve been seeing were all purchased before the bad (financial) news.  The last thing I’ve purchased was a lot of ‘73’s from Ted “Crinkly Wrappers” and that was when I found out about the financial bad news.  There is good financial news for us possibly coming.  The news itself maybe in a month or so, the actual money in our pockets could be as far as 9 months or so.  Of course, what really sucks in there is a card show this weekend.  I may still go and just see what I can for $5 or something.

The main reason the trading has been stopped is because I just haven’t purchased many cards so I have very little to trade.  I plan on listing some stuff on Ebay, nothing high dollar, probably vintage lots.  Just so I have a little money for some cheap purchases, just to keep the addiction in check.  I also plan on getting a list out of what I do have for commons or base and let you all know how many of each set I have, then if you want to let me know a link to you want lists to that set, I’ll see if I have anything.  That post will go out when I have time.  Don’t comment on this one for these, wait till I post some of what I have.  I’ll let you all know when I get the lots up on Ebay and if any of you bid and win any, I’ll discount the shipping or throw other cards in or whatever.

I do have plenty of ‘81 and ‘73 posts to compose and put out.  As well as lots of Player Collection Spotlight and cheap Ebay pickups.  I even have a few trade and box break posts to get up.  Most of it is scanned, it’s just a matter of taking the time to get the posts together.  I have actually been spending more time on my other blog “Random Thoughts from a Random Guy”, it’s more of an everyday life blog about the kids, dealing with my wife’s MS, and other things in my life.  I’m not asking everyone to go and read everything, just putting that out there.  I still plan on posting at least once a day here but like I said, there will be a lot less commentary just because without purchasing much new product, I don’t really have much to say.  That may change with the upcoming season starting this week.  We will see how that goes.

Although I tend to stay a few days behind, I am still reading everybody’s blogs.  Seeing all of your blogs is helping with the not being able to purchase anything.  Getting to see all your great cards helps curb the appetite so everybody keep posting (like I have to tell you).  So your blogs are my therapy for now.  I’ll get a check in the mail to all of you guys since your my therapists.  Oh wait, I have no money, looks like you all are working for free.

Free cards!

I’ve spent the weekend getting all the cards I’ve received in the last month or so organized, logged in to my have lists, taken off my want lists, and am now trying to get some posts ready to go in the next few days.  Then sometime this week I’ll have to find the time to actually put them all away.  Which also explains why I’m so freaking far behind on reading your posts  I believe I’m probably almost a week behind on all my blogs.  Which isn’t too hard to do since I currently have 446 blogs subscribed to in my Google Reader.  Hopefully I can get caught up at work this week.

I was trying to add more blogs to my blog roll as there are a bunch I follow that I haven’t been able to add.  I got through about half of them, then the stupid blogger wouldn’t save anymore.  I click save, it say’s saving, but never goes away or save’s.  I guess I’ll try again sometime this week.  Sucks because I was on a roll getting them logged in.  I probably would have been done in another 10 or 15 minutes when it stopped.  Something like that always happens when I finally get time to do something.

Before I get into the free card, saw this on Twitter.  For those of you who don’t know who Oney Guillen is, it would Ozzie Guillen’s son.

And now that my title has gotten you all reading and looking for free cards.  I received a PWE in the mail about a week ago.  Now if you follow my Ebay habits, which I post on here, then you probably realize I get cards in PWE all the time.  So the envelope itself, wasn’t a surprise.  At least until I opened it and out fell this.

Apparently Ted at “Crinkly Wrappers” actually reads what I write, or at least he did once.  I had posted how much I liked this card, probably when I received the sparkly version of it.  Tom Seaver, who is a player collection, White Sox, which is my favorite team, and the old style uniforms that I like.  Ted and I have traded in the past.  But along with this card, came this note

I think we’ve probably all said it at one point or another, people in this great community of ours are just awesome.  Sorry, about tricking you into reading this post with my misleading title, but your life will be better having seen that card.  I did it for your own good.

Thanks Ted, it’ll look great right next to my sparkly copy.  Be sure to check out “Crinkly Wrappers"

Crinkly cards with no Wrappers

I picked up some cards from “Crinkly Wrappers” as he was downsizing his cards.  I picked up about a 300 or 400 count box of cards for cheap.  I won’t go through and post everything I got but I will show the White Sox cards I got.  Everything else I got will be up for trade when I get around to getting them all on my trade page, but if you see a set here that your collecting and want to know if I have certain cards of the set, let me know.  Comment or email jccsst1022 at gmail dot com.

Got a Konerko, yes!  I really like the Danks rookie in the bottom corner.  I like the rookie cards in general with the black background.

No Konerko’s here, but all cards I didn’t have.  Like I said, I got a bunch of these sets so if you need any, let me know.

Thanks to “Crinkly Wrappers” for the chance at these cards.