Considering getting back into Pre-War...

[Luke]

I think this might be kind of frustrating. Ultimately it just comes down to having realistic expectations, but any time I am trying to collect something that I really don't have the budget for, I end up calling it quits and selling before long.

If you're going to spend around $50 a few times a year and then $100ish maybe once a year, it's going to take a long time to assemble a fun stack of pre-war cards. I would try and map out a reasonable year of purchases and see how you think you'd feel after a year with those cards.

If I was going to do this project, a year would probably look something like this:

-trimmed or lower grade T206 Brown
-e96 Kling
-trimmed or lower grade T200 Cubs
-two or three raw 1916 m101 common Cubbies
-t206 Overall
-T207 Needham or Schulte
-a few game cards, 1933/34 Goudeys, Diamond Stars, e120, e121, etc

Obviously being opportunistic would be the best approach, but I think I'd end up with something like that. Probably about 10 cards over the course of a year.