Night Owl Cards

  Today was the first chance I had to look for some 2025 Topps. The weather has been ridiculous the past seven days between a big fat snowstorm, ungodly wind for days and now sub-zero temperatures. Even the times I could get away from work, all I wanted to do was stay inside somewhere.   So, a week after release, I've got 2025 Topps to show. I'm not even going to say I'm late. Running out in mid-February for the new cards seems much more pointless than when I started this blog. And I just couldn't fired up to order any online.   I knew it would be this way though. 2024 Topps is tough to top, unless you're going to go back to real cardboard and the designs of the '70s. I've seen the 2025 cards online and they're OK. Like 2022 Topps OK. Nothing bad ... or so I thought.   I went to Target to do some birthday things and headed back to the card aisle. It's the week all the kids have off so the place was mobbed and I couldn't wait to get out, but I did...

Slowly, ever so slowly, I am becoming a smarter card consumer. Although I would never look down on anyone who buys cards from the card aisle or tries to complete sets that way, I am attempting more and more not to do that. Random pack purchases are down and, as you know, attempting to complete a current set is WAY down. But Topps still finds a way to get me, even when I'm being good. You might remember a couple of months ago when I bought a blaster of 2012 Allen and Ginter from my friendly neighborhood Walmart just because I assumed something sitting on a shelf for almost two years couldn't possibly be full price. It didn't end well . Well, this time I was at Walmart again in desperation mode thanks to another Hallmark holiday. There in the card aisle, I discovered marked down blasters. And one of them was not 2012 A&G but 2013 A&G! Weeeeee! Now this was smart shopping. Only $11.99 and I still needed 34 cards to complete the set. Granted, most of them a...