trying Something new with trading to try and manage my time better. I will have trades turned off from Sometime Sunday night to sometime on Thursday. Then I will open up trading for the weekend. I will pull cards Sunday night and send them out Monday mornings, (Tuesday when needed due to Holidays.)
I was out of collecting for almost 20 years, I think 2001 was my last full year collecting. Started to get back into it in 2021 because my two oldest boys are developing a passion for it and it rekindled mine.
I am a pastor, just moved to NE Nebraska and have with 8 young kids. Needless to say, buying/purchasing just isn't in the budget for the foreseeable future.
PCs of Mike Schmidt, Jose Cruz JR (#5), Dan Wilson (#3 on TCDB as of 8/23), Pat Kelly (#1)
Passive PCs of Casey Candaele, Andy Benes in Mariners uniform, Any surname of Creel, (John Creel #1) & (Keith Creel #4) and will hold on to any Bo Jackson, Julio Rodriguez & most Shohei Otahnis I pull from packs.
I am a set builder at heart, with a soft preference for Topps Base Sets and Early (through 93) Upper Deck. I have or am working on 1984-2002 Topps & 1989-1996 Upper Deck, plus others...
One Son is a set builder and the other collects Father/Son, Brother/Brother, etc MLB duos
Special Project: All Baseball cards with the1965 Topps design (2014 Heritage, 2021 redux, reprints, Archives, etc…)
Biggest priorities: PCs, (nothing will get me to jump at a trade quicker than a Mike Schmidt or a Pat Kelly (playing career '91-99) that I dont already have!) & my '65 Topps design Special Project... then the rest of the sets collecting. Newest and Heritage, then 90's then 80s in that order...
Lowest Priorities: '89 and '91 Upper Deck, '89 and '92 Fleer, '88, '92, '92 Donruss
Sets where I dont care about the variants (building a set with one card per number, regardless of DOTS or border patterns or print codes): '88 Donruss, '90 Donruss, '92 Fleer, '92 Leaf, 92 Donruss, 91 Upper Deck
Sets where I DO care about the Variants (trying to build a master set): '89 Donruss, '91 Donruss, '91 Topps (except blacklight VARs), '94 Topps and '92 Topps Gold Winners and PC's
Basically, feel free to ask because there are some I dont care about the VARs.
Lastly, I love finding opportunities for PIFS and adding extras into agreed upon trades. My motto is, You cant out give God and the more cards I get rid of, the more I can sort and list and I also know how I have been blessed by the generosity of others.
