Commons I like

I should probably throw up my last post before we go do a show tomorrow, you know, just in case I come home with some more cards. Fred did give me some yesterday but I haven't even looked to see if I have any of them. 

I've been tracking my spending on cards since January of 2018 and last month was the first month that I didn't spend any money on cards. It got me looking at each year. In 2018, I averaged $33.20 a month, with the most I spent in a month was $62.14. Last year I averaged $177.54 with the most in a month being $471.54. With that last month of $0, it brings my average down to $98.44 for this year. Even though I've spent just under a thousand so far this year, I've added almost 9000 cards to my collections. Last year with over $2100 spent, I only added a hair over 3300 cards. In short, I'm spending less but coming home with a lot more. That's because of all the free cards I'm getting from my LCS and other sorting duties I've done.

Speaking of free cards, yeah, I got more. These all came from Kevin's sorting. We have a few people who give us commons just to get rid of. We sort them, take out what we want and sell the rest to a guy we have that buys them. Depending on the deal we have, we'll either give the person who gives them to us a set amount or sometime we do half of what we earn. They get rid of commons and we both make money (and add cards to our collections). That's where these came from.

As per the usual on these posts, we'll start with the White Sox collection. All of the above were new to me. The top row are the nicest with the Sale insert, the Crochet mini rookie and the Mendick color.

Next up is Tier 3.

He gave me this Strawberry card. As you can see above (and below), I got a bunch of these 1990 Donruss Best of from him.

A mixture of old and new for Gooden. I love that first card, I had a couple of those sets growing up.

Tier 2.

2 more of Jimenez. The royal blue from 2021 (also has Robert on it) and a 206 Mini. I just cracked the 200 count with Eloy with my last post.

Also a pair of Hendriks with this rainbow parallel and an Archives.  I really like the Archives, my favorite uniform and an 80's set. I just read where we declined his option today. Hopefully he still signs with us but I wouldn't blame him if he got out of dodge with the way we played.

A 206 mini of Mr. Anderson as well.

I even boosted some of my Fab 5 PC's which are a part of my Tier 3 Michigan PC.

We'll start off with an 8 count of our current coach, these cards give me 125 cards of Juwan.

I also got 1 each of Webber and Rose. Yes, that's Arod on the Webber card and no, it's not a White Sox card.

Last but not least, he grabbed this card of Uche for me. It's my lucky number 13 cards of him. Always great to see the Maize and Blue.

No Huddle Go Blue

Not sure if I'll watch the Championship game tonight. I do love some college basketball but it's just not the same when your team isn't playing. Guess it'll just depend on what I'm doing at the time since it isn't on until after 9.

Today's post is another former Wolverine that I picked up at the Shipshewana show.

Lots of shininess up there. These 3 all came from the $1 box at Shipshewana. I love getting the colored parallels for a buck. I'll pay that all day long. That No Huddle Blue at the bottom is numbered to /79 and it's in the Michigan uniform so it takes the cake.

These 3 give me 8 cards of Josh.

Joshing with the Helmet

Yesterday we had an offensive linemen, today we head over to the defensive side.

Along with the Taylor Lewan auto I showed yesterday, I picked this auto up as well. Unlike Taylor though, I only have 4 cards of Josh but this is my first auto of him. He's sort of in the Maize and Blue, not a fan of the white jerseys but really not a fan when they screw with the helmet.

Post draft cards

On the day after the NFL draft, the random gave us the only NFL cards in my collections. Former Michigan players in the NFL. I think I read where 8 players were drafted so that's 8 more player collections for me. What remains to be seen is which players get more than just draft cards as a lot of them tend to do. Let's get to the players that I have already started PC's for. All these were purchased at the card show.

We'll start with the only NFL jersey in today's post. I picked up this Frank Clark Green Prizm card that is pretty cool looking in hand. It is only my 3rd of Frank.

I guess I shouldn't have said PC's that I have started before as these 3 cards of Josh Uche are my first of him. No, it's not dupes on top, the right card is the green parallel. You'll notice his name is in green.

I picked up this auto of Zach Gentry as well. It's only my 2nd card of his. Can't say much about the autograph though.

Another contenders auto. Say what you want about Panini but at least they show college uni's, that's enough for me. This is my 3rd card of David Long.

The one guy who didn't get drafted and is no longer in the NFL (he signed with the Chiefs but was released), is the guy I have more cards of. This is my 7th card of our former QB.

Congrats to the 8 other players who join the ranks of the NFL.