I Still Collect Cards... And Other Stuff

So with sporadic posts the last few months, you may have noticed I spend a lot of time talking about movies, or other random stuff I find at thrift stores.  I'll be honest, that takes up more of my time these days, but it doesn't mean I've abandoned card collecting.  In fact I have some to show today.  I have more to show from thrifting and gifts, but I figured I needed to show some cards off or else I might be kicked out of this social club of card bloggers.  So let's dive in.

One of the great things about the Trading Card Database is the fact that members are so nice and friendly.  These cards represent what is an ever going forum posting entitled Pay It Forward.  I've been fortunate enough to get a couple PWE's from very generous members and I never even asked for them.  The idea is members will see cards on your wantlist and will just send a card or two to you for free.  As always on this site or on the database, I never solicit cards and state my wantlists are mainly for my own use so I can see what I don't have.  However if people are kind enough to want to send me cards, I'm not opposed to it.  Having said all that, I feel bad because though it was back around November or so, I don't think I've added them to my collection on there or even sorted them into my own collection yet.  Maybe I will soon.  My focus last time I did anything with cards was sorting my cards I either don't intend to keep or will if I have enough of the set.  That's been a couple months too, so progress is quite slow right now.  I need to get motivated.

All these cards are great additions though, the Memphis Chicks on the top are ones I likely would have never thought about seeking out, while the Steve Busby might have been a while to go after.  The Maclin the same way especially since I haven't been working on my Mizzou collection in quite some time.

To show you where I'm at, I'm not sure when I got these cards, but I guess I bought a pack of Heritage at some point last year.  I might have even shown them on here, but since I didn't delete it off my computer here they are (for the first time or the 47th, I'm not sure).  Anyways, not a bad bunch of cards.  While I never actively seeked out Ichiro cards, its nice to get some in the past year.  I've also I guess become a Kendall Graveman collector since I've been collecting some of his cards.  A few more and maybe I'll become an unknown supercollector of his.  Overall I guess I did good on this pack.

This one I remember a bit more clearly, but not much.  When I go to Walmart I look for the clearance packs of cards hoping to find some 2016 Topps.  At this point I should just search ebay for lots just to finish the set, but if I find cheap packs I'll get them.  I've slowed down on building some sort of master set of the 2016 cards, but until I start buying current cards from Topps, the search continues.  I will say the 2019 Topps cards look somewhat nice, but I still doubt I buy any.  These are more cards I'm not sure I've cataloged yet.  I guess I really should check into that.

My favorite card in this lot is the Ozzie Smith.  It's been a while since I've gotten any of his cards, so it was a nice addition.  It was also nice to pull an Ichiro Chasing 3K card I didn't have yet (pretty sure I didn't at least).

This Karros cards I think I've shown like 4 times now, but this is the first time I've shown them since I opened the Starting Lineup package they came in.  I wanted to get good scans of them to add to the database, but still haven't done it yet.  Oh well.  The Griffey was a surprise find after going through stuff from storage.  It was the lone card which has seen better days, but its still a great oddball card to find, and my Griffey Reds cards are quite minuscule at the point, so a great addition.

Even better is its from Ritz and Oreo, which I have no memory of ever finding cards in either, but if I had to guess it came from a box of Ritz crackers because despite liking sweets, I hardly ever buy Oreo's unless I get a sudden urge.  The Karros cards look pretty nice on the back, though a bit... white!  I like the middle one better since it has stats on it, but do wish it had the Starting Lineup logo on the back like the other one.  It's not like they didn't have room.

So with that, let's see some other stuff I found recently.  Some I've featured before, but hey baseball season is almost here.

The top one came in a pack I got a couple years ago, forgetting all about it, but remember I got it after starting the blog since I remember talking about it once.  I still haven't displayed it, but maybe I will.

The other three are from boxes of cereal.  Someone on the Trading Card Database was talking about them a couple months ago and I went looking for them.  They are a little sunbaked since I set them in front of my window at my old house, but still look nice.  It is nice I have the Ichiro one, but I have no real attachment to them.  I miss the days of finding good stuff in cereal boxes, but at the same time these days I'm more of a Cheerios guy then a sugary cereal gut.  Though I must say if I hear of a new or unique cereal I will try it.  Last year I tried Nilla Wafers cereal and OMG they were good.  I ate them up so fast I got sick, so I never bought another box.  Last trip to Walmart I went looking for Chicken & Waffles cereal I heard about from Impulsive Buy website, but I think I missed out on them.  That site btw, Impulsive Buy, is a great site if you like to see and try new foods.  It seems Unicorn themed food is the new hip thing right now.  Think of the Pumpkin Spice craze and that's whats going on.  Also it seems Heintz is trying to make everyone sick by combining Mayo with Mustard, Ketchup, and/or BBQ sauce.  So now I'm sick, let's move on.

TNA Wrestling, now called um... I'm not sure I don't keep up anymore, I think its Impact Wrestling still, had a great wrestling product.  The problem with most of TNA's run has been marketing and advertising, among other things.  One thing I thought they did right was the action figure line which this Kevin Nash comes from.  Besides just bending at the knees like most, they also bend at the waist, arms, fingers, and even the toes!  They are a little stiff, but it was fun getting this one and a Petey Williams one many years ago.  They are some of the last figures I've actually taken out of the package.  I'm glad I did too.

Speaking of packages, I kept these two in their packages because they look nice on my wall shelf that way.  Not much more to say really because I think I've talked about them before.  Wrestlemania is coming up, so I have some of my wrestling stuff displayed, and since I don't have the WWE Network, I got out some wrestling DVD's and plan to watch some soon, including the Best of AJ Styles in TNA, which is a few years before he left, so most of his earlier stuff.  Also have some ROH with matches with Daniel Bryan, Nigel McGuinness, and maybe even Tyler Black (Seth Rollins).  Also have some documentaries from the likes of Mr. Perfect, and Dusty Rhodes.  I should have fun with that.

So down to the last item to show.  This was kind of odd to find, and the stuff I found with it I'm saving for another day, and hopefully that day is soon.  It will be a LONG post with TONS of pictures though, so I need to figure out how to format it.  Anyways, here was an outlier to the rest of the stuff.

My dad loved mowers.  I remember mowing every summer with him until he got sick.  We not just mowed our yard, but mowed at the local nursing home for a while, other people's yards, and even a church and a cemetery.  He also started garden tractor pulling as well.  He started with a Dynamark mower and a Wizard.  He named them Little Red and Wizard of Oz.  The Wizard was possibly the slowest puller I ever saw, but it was consistent and he did well with it.  As time went on he upgraded to Cub Cadet's and started doing better.  While it was fun to watch him pull at times, even at the Missouri State Fair, I never got the passion to pull like he did.  At times I wish I did, but also glad I didn't because it would be another hobby I'd spend too much money on.

What is odd about this piece though is he never used a John Deere.  Not for pulling or mowing.  When we mowed, we ran Craftsman mowers, and even when he would plow snow he had a Case to do it.  So I was a bit perplexed to find this cast iron John Deere in a box a couple months ago.  That's not to say I don't like it, but I haven't displayed it yet, and not sure if or when I will.  I do want to clean it up nice though but haven't done that yet.

So with that I guess its time to wrap things up.  I haven't mentioned it, but I'm sure you've noticed I've done a site redesign.  I like to change every couple years, and when Blogger recently did away with the Google + or whatever and mentioned possible conflicts with comments on here, it reminded me I needed to fix my comments section that I never did after the last redesign.  I I wanted an older style look to the blog and I'm quite happy with the look.  I figured since I haven't exactly done Royals posts as of late, the gold background was a nice change.  If you notice any issues arising from the change let me know and I'll see what I can do.  I'm most happy that I can reply to individual comments again and look forward to doing that.  So I guess that's it for today.  It felt nice to show off some cards again, but I'll be honest, the next few posts might be without cards, but they will have a bunch of cool stuff to show.  Thanks everyone for reading and have a great weekend!