From 84-87 my dad would bring home packs of baseball and football for me and my brother. In 88 I started spending all my own money (which wasn’t much) on cards. It shifted from mostly baseball to mostly basketball during the Larry Johnson and Shaquille RC years, to mostly hockey in 94 and 95. Then I didn’t buy packs until 2008 or 2009 when I would buy a few for my son to see if he’d get into it. I didn’t buy cards for myself again until I found a great local card store in 2010 and started getting vintage cards here and there as a way to cope with adjusting to a new job, no packs for me though. I learned my lesson from the 84-95 packs-collecting run.
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