Tuesday, September 6, 2011

I've been hoarding...


So, aside from the few packs I've posted here and there this year and the 3-Box Ginter blowout I had, most of the packs I've bought have been opened and stashed in a box.  I don't know why.  I do, however, somewhat understand why my wife hates me.   It's not all junk, either; there's a fair amount of relaly good stuff in there.  The total tally from everything shown:

Loose Packs: 107 packs (1,010 cards)
5 x 2011 Bowman Retail
2 x 2011 Heritage Retail
1 x 2011 Heritage Hobby
3 x 2011 Bowman Rack
1 x 2011 Gypsy Queen Retail
2 x 2011 Attax
1 x 2011 Topps Series 1 Retail (W)
2 x 2011 Topps Series 2 Retail (T)
2 x 2011 Topps Series 2 Retail (W)
1 x 2011 Topps Series 2 Hobby
1 x 2011 Opening Day Hanger
1 x 2011 Topps Series 1 Rack
1 x 2011 Topps Series 2 Rack
2 x 2011 Bowman Platinum
2 x 2011 Tristar Obak
5 x 2011 Topps Stickers
1 x 2010 Topps 206
2 x 2009 Topps Cereal Box
1 x 2009 Topps Chrome
4 x 2009 Ticket to Stardom
4 x 2009 Bowman
2 x 2009 SP
2 x 2009 Upper Deck Series 2
7 x 2009 Goodwin Champions
5 x 2009 Goudey
7 x 2008 Upper Deck X
5 x 2008 Timeline
1 x 2008 Heroes
1 x 2007 Fleer
2 x 2007 Upper Deck Series 1
6 x 2006 Fleer Tradition
2 x 2005 Topps Series 1 Hobby
10 x 2004 Donruss Studio
1 x 2002 Super Estrellas
1 x 2002 Upper Deck Series 2 Hobby
1 x 2000 Just Minors Justifiable
1 x 2000 Vanguard
1 x 2000 Topps Gold Label
6 x 1999 Topps Finest Series 1
1 x 1992 Baseball Enquirer Mystery
1 x 1991 Donruss Series 1

Value Packs: 25 packs (189 cards)
2 x 2011 Topps Gypsy Queen Value Pack
2 x 2011 Bowman Blister Value Pack
1 x 2011 Topps Value Box

Blasters: 80 packs (479 cards)
1 x 2010 Topps Chrome Blaster
3 x 2009 Upper Deck Spectrum Blaster
1 x 2009 Goudey Blaster
1 x 2009 A Piece of History Blaster
3 x 2009 Topps Update Blaster
1 x 2008 Heroes Blaster

Total: 212 packs (1,678 cards)

...and that's just baseball.  I also have ~30 packs of football/hockey/soccer/basketball/multi-sport/other-sport/non-sport sitting around.  I really haven't planned anything for any of these, either.  There's some PC stuff floating in there (some player cards and some set needs) but I would guess that around 1500 are just trade bait or sort-and-collect-dust cards. Since I just recently finished paying off the my wife's cat's surgery bill (yeah, I know), I celebrated by ordering some boxes for myself. I will probably post those over the next two weeks, then you'll start seeing the stash from above.  Options I have considered for the stash:

1. Another bracket contest like I did at the beginning of the year, but that thing was a beast to take on. 

2. I also thought about doing a Thorzul-esque "the Best X items in the lot" series and maybe highlight the top 100-200 cards in there.  I could maybe do the 100-best and the 100-worst concurrently. 

3. I could also go about it the traditional way and just post them randomly as pack/blaster breaks.  I'd shy away from video-ing them, though, since they are already opened.  Just like the usual, you see something you like, let me know and we'll trade.

4. I have thought about a group break.  Since they are already opened, it's not like I would need any certain amount to pay for the lot, or to fill all teams.  I would be keeping any PC stuff (a few cards here and there, and probably some 2008 Heroes and 2006 Fleer Tradition for my sets).  I envisioned a Bid-style break where you put in a $-amount you would be willing to pay and then if someone else wants that team, they would bid a dollar more.  I wouldn't be looking for much, just to cover shipping and to put a few bucks back in my pocket.    I'm not sure there would be any competition for teams (other than maybe the Dodgers), so I don't know that a bid-style thing would have a point.  The benefit to bid-style is that the Pirates likely wouldn't cost as much as the Yankees.  I would reserve the right to accept and reject offers. After all, I started this blog because I like feeling powerful, and marriage doesn't allow that. Not quite sure how a group break would work nor how long it would take. 

5. Any other ideas or thoughts?

6 comments:

Greg Zakwin said...

Thoughts?

hot damn

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Anonymous said...

Can't think. Just staring at the card porn. Ditto...what Greg said....

night owl said...

I cannot believe those are all just sitting there.

Unopened.

Sitting there.

Still sitting there. Unopened.

Gah!

Spankee said...

@night owl

They've been opened, I just put them right back in the pack after opening. I didn't even take anything out, even the hits.

Dawgbones said...

but they're still just sitting there.

almost unopened.

even the hits.

Gah!!

Kbrewster/90 said...

So what did you end up doing with all this good stuff?