Night Owl Cards

It's been a very slow week at the mailbox. Just a solitary card package at the start of the week and then your usual assortment of boredom. I'm entirely to blame for this. It's much too busy in life to be ordering, packaging or sending cards. My want list remains in disarray after its disappearance almost two months ago. So I'm not exactly making myself welcome for people thinking of sending me cards. Also, there is this: I have a lot of cards. I can't tell you how many. I haven't figured that out yet. Let's just say "too many." Blogging for almost a decade will do that. So it's a little difficult to find something from my incomplete want list. But I encourage you, dear trade partner, to keep trying. Because I know better than anyone that I definitely need many, many cards. You never know when something is going to slip through. Let's take the one card package to brave my mailbox this week, for example. It arrived from Tony at ...

A Topps coupon for cents off on a Heritage blaster still resides in my pocket. I'm making fewer and fewer trips to Target these days because pulling Diamondbacks and Marlins is really getting annoying. I've finally become disciplined enough to focus any extra cash on a COMC purchase rather then taking my chances on a pack rip. Does this mean I'm done with pack-ripping for good? Absolutely not. It wouldn't be the hobby without it. I'm just reining it in more. Besides the whole "getting exactly what I want" thing, an online purchase helps me obtain something else I can't get at the card aisle. Online exclusives. Yes, I know how annoying online exclusives are. You really try to put them out of your head and treat them like they're not even cards. I feel ya. I do the same thing. But sometimes, there's some card that's just too appealing, and before you even know it's an online exclusive, it's in your cart and you've stuff...