Close, but not quite there

I checked on my Sportlots package and I'm pretty sure I'm not getting it until the 28th but I still have 6 more posts after today which means I won't have to stop blogging and I can finish everything from the last couple of months.

As you know, I occasionally take a set that I'm close to finishing and throw some money at the cards and try to get it complete. I've actually completed the 1985 Fleer & Topps set, as well as the 1987 Topps set doing this. I've completed all 3 of those sets since August and those are the 1st 3 that I've completed since starting collecting again.

Today is one of those posts and one of the next sets I'm trying to complete.

As you can see, I bought quite a bit of the 1981 Topps set. The bad thing about completing sets this way is that I started with the set I was closest to completing, than the 2nd closest and so on. So now that I'm working on my 4th set, the more cards that I need.

I picked up all of these on Card Barrel, 114 cards for $23.87 including shipping which equals out to just under $.21/each. It's not completed yet as they didn't have everything that I wanted or I could get them cheaper on Sportlots so it'll hopefully be completed on the 28th when I get my Sportlots package. As it stands right now, I have 694 of the 726 cards in the set.

80's Vintage

* I put my February purchases on random for today's post.

Today's post is all vintage collection cards. Nothing majorly vintage but they all go to the vintage collection all the same. I told you I finished my 1985 Topps set last month so I looked to see what set I was closest to completing and when I go through a sellers cards and finish and I have a little more money to spend, I picked up a few cards from that set.

I know, that set! It's the next set that I'm closest to finishing. The good news, I haven't picked up any more from the 1987 set since these and I have picked up some older ones for next month's post. These 6 cards put that set at 721 cards which is 91% completed. While I want to finish the set, I'm not really highly motivated to do so.

I got all these from my cousin's (Sluggo) last package. The 1984 Topps Ozzie puts that set at 322 cards (40.7%). All the 1983 Topps put that set at 143 cards (18.1%) completed. I also noticed I slipped in a Mike Schmidt card in the scan, I decided to leave it on this post since it's the only card I got of him last month, that card puts the Schmidt collection at 136 cards.