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Flea Market Finds #29: An Entire Collection
When: Saturday, January 5th
Where: De Anza Flea Market
What: A Collection
How Much? $160
My favorite thing about all of our hobby blogs is the interaction we have among them. While most of my friends are watching television, working out, updating their lives on Facebook, going shopping, or reading books in their free time... I enjoy reading everyone's blogs and leaving comments.
Unfortunately... lately I've had little to zero free time because of my latest purchase. So I apologize in advance for my lack of activity in our blogworld.
So, what could possibly keep me away from your blogs? Well... let's take a look:
What you see above is huge collection of football, basketball, hockey, and golf cards I stumbled upon while walking around the flea market and the final purchase in my cardboard spending spree.
Actually... had I been there 30 minutes earlier, I could have added his baseball card collection too.
The seller had the typical story. He collected in the mid 90's to late 2000's and was looking to dump his collection to make room for his family.
He was asking $7/box... some of which included stacks of memorabilia cards, graded cards, and memorabilia cards. After inquiring, he offered to sell his entire football collection for $100 and the entire basketball collection for $50.
If I was willing to purchase both, he'd throw in a few hockey boxes and a box of golf cards. At the time, it seemed like it was a no-brainer. However... sifting through this collection is a project that's much more work than I imagined.
Plus, I just don't have the room to store these cards and my parents have already told me that I can't bring anymore boxes to their house. One of my buddies let's me store stuff in his garage, but I don't want to push his generosity too much.
So, I'm in the process of sifting through these boxes and figuring out what I want to keep, what I want to sell, and what I want to donate. I'm hoping to have things sorted out within the next week or so... but I'll keep you posted.
I also picked up a pair of boxes and five oversized cards from the same vendor for $10:
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Where: De Anza Flea Market
What: A Collection
How Much? $160
My favorite thing about all of our hobby blogs is the interaction we have among them. While most of my friends are watching television, working out, updating their lives on Facebook, going shopping, or reading books in their free time... I enjoy reading everyone's blogs and leaving comments.
Unfortunately... lately I've had little to zero free time because of my latest purchase. So I apologize in advance for my lack of activity in our blogworld.
So, what could possibly keep me away from your blogs? Well... let's take a look:
What you see above is huge collection of football, basketball, hockey, and golf cards I stumbled upon while walking around the flea market and the final purchase in my cardboard spending spree.
Actually... had I been there 30 minutes earlier, I could have added his baseball card collection too.
The seller had the typical story. He collected in the mid 90's to late 2000's and was looking to dump his collection to make room for his family.
He was asking $7/box... some of which included stacks of memorabilia cards, graded cards, and memorabilia cards. After inquiring, he offered to sell his entire football collection for $100 and the entire basketball collection for $50.
If I was willing to purchase both, he'd throw in a few hockey boxes and a box of golf cards. At the time, it seemed like it was a no-brainer. However... sifting through this collection is a project that's much more work than I imagined.
Plus, I just don't have the room to store these cards and my parents have already told me that I can't bring anymore boxes to their house. One of my buddies let's me store stuff in his garage, but I don't want to push his generosity too much.
So, I'm in the process of sifting through these boxes and figuring out what I want to keep, what I want to sell, and what I want to donate. I'm hoping to have things sorted out within the next week or so... but I'll keep you posted.
I also picked up a pair of boxes and five oversized cards from the same vendor for $10:
I absolutely love these oversized memorabilia swatches and from what I've seen on eBay... they're really affordable. As soon as I get some downtime, I'm looking forward to busting these boxes too. Maybe I'll find a Jeter rookie and a Honorary Captain Michael Jordan card.
Okay... it's time to get back to sifting and sorting. Happy Hump Day and sayonara!
Okay... it's time to get back to sifting and sorting. Happy Hump Day and sayonara!
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