What's your favorite junk wax?

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by JasonL

that I just picked up a box of my 1986 star stickers on the bay!
can't wait to open them!!!

HaHa! Nice. Got my '81's in yesterday. Haven't succumbed to ripping them open yet. I kind of like the way they look in the Unopened boxes for now.............if that makes any sense.

Brought myself back down to earth and picked up one more B18 Blanket common to go towards my very slow pursuit of a player set.

[JasonL]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

HaHa! Nice. Got my '81's in yesterday. Haven't succumbed to ripping them open yet. I kind of like the way they look in the Unopened boxes for now.............if that makes any sense.

Brought myself back down to earth and picked up one more B18 Blanket common to go towards my very slow pursuit of a player set.

what player collection are you working on with a blanket common??

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by JasonL

what player collection are you working on with a blanket common??

Sorry for the confusion. I'm going for 1 of each player in the B18 set. I'm not concerned about the variations or a master set at this point.

I'm only at about 25 right now, so I still have quite a ways to go.

[slidekellyslide]

I went to an auction a few months back that had tables full of unopened boxes. I ended up buying about 70 boxes of 80-90s stuff for just a couple of bucks a box. Remember the Ted Williams card company??..I also have a nearly full case of 89 Topps..every once in a while I just give my kid and his friends some packs to open.

[JasonL]

70 boxes!?
holy smokes!! That's a nice stash to crack into ...anytime you're bored, you can sit down and saydecide to open a box just to satisfy the urge!

I am awaiting delivery of my $8 box of 1986 Fleer Star Stickers...actually really looking forward to it...ah, the simple pleasures!

[slidekellyslide]

My son and I cracked open a box of 1993 Upper Deck the other day and it took some effort to get the cards apart from one another...that shiny stuff sticks them together. Wonder what this will be like in another 20-30 years?

This particular auction was all sportscards...I went there in the hopes of grabbing up the older Topps baseball lots, but they all went for WAYYYYY over ebay prices for ungraded cards and ended up buying craploads of boxes and factory sets...I was snagging 1980s-90s Factory sets of all 4 major sports from Donruss, Fleer, Topps and Upper Deck for less than $5 each..and in some cases for only $1 each. I don't know if the owner of the stuff was at the auction, but if he was he was probably getting sick watching tables full of stuff sell for that cheap.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

My son and I cracked open a box of 1993 Upper Deck the other day and it took some effort to get the cards apart from one another...that shiny stuff sticks them together. Wonder what this will be like in another 20-30 years?

I remember Upper Deck, Fleer Flair, Leaf, Topps Finest, Stadium Club, all that shiny stuff having trouble "sticking" together even when they were released in the '90s.