As of this week, the final envelope from the 5,000-post, 5,000-card giveaway reached its destination. I'm done sending out those 250-card random repacks and done paying the postage. Best of all, I can actually use the card table for writing and sorting again, something that was impossible with 5,000 cards sitting on it. Giving away 5,000 cards from my collection helped clear out a ton of cards that didn't have any place in my collection and that I was holding onto unnecessarily. I am now free of a whole lot of card clutter (although there are some leftovers from the giveaway that will return to my collection). My fear with this giveaway is that I would deplete my trade bait down to nothing, and it's true, I don't have a heck of a lot of it right now. But it won't take long to build that back up. I give it a month. I still have one small giveaway-related package to send -- to Chris of The Collector -- just kind of a thank you for inspiring a little bit of levity d...
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