The Villages card show along with the Easy peazy CONTEST and Groundhog Day!

 Here we are again, a new month (yesterday) and I forgot to post my usual monthly reminder of the almost daily giveaway/contest. The rules are simple.

1) Follow this blog.

2) Comment before midnight (EST) on that day's post.

Bad news today: 6 more weeks of winter. No Phil.... you suck! Then again he is wrong 61% of the time so this might be a good thing that he seen his shadow. 

Did you know that Topps is releasing a 2nd set this month? Yeah, another 2022 set. Topps Chrome Sonic. At least they did something different than what they did with the Chrome Sapphire (using the Flagship players and numbers for the Sapphire set, well partially on the Update. As for the new product, 225 card set last 5 are SP's (no Braves yeah), There are also 10 image variations and again no Braves.

The winner last night was: Jafronius

Only had 1 bonus winner and that was Jeremy for getting the other teams correct (I have something special for that Bonus you can get it when you come to house this month). No one got the #2 correct. It was a tie with White Sox and Phillies both having 3. 

Derek was close on #1 but got 1 White Sox wrong as it was a Yankee player that fooled him. RJ added the Marlins (nope), left out the Reds, Nats, and Boston. 

One of the good things about being home full time is that I don't have to drive hours to get to a card show. The Village's (the world's largest retirement community) hosts a big show 4x a year. There was one this past Saturday and I went. I had forgotten how long it takes to get there, I was thinking 20 minutes but it took nearly 40 minutes, but that is still very okay with me. I might make the 3 1/2 hour drive each way to Jax for their show next Saturday (just not sure right now), I hope to just don't like the idea of the drive now that I'm not in Valdosta. 

On to my card show visit.

My first purchase was a bunch of junk sets I could not pass up. The dealer had a tub of cards marked 2 for a buck. I rummaged through them I picked up 29.

These are the junk sets that I was talking about. I didn't need any of these and probably have dozens of each of these sets. I couldn't pass them up at .50.

I was really glad to find these in the box. These I opened. Anyways I did not pay the 2 for buck as advertised, he only charged me $10.00 for the 29 sets/packs.

From the same seller I made two other purchases.

I paid $40.00 for these 8 cards. I know I needed ever one of them except maybe the Michael Jordan which I haven't checked that one yet (I did check the others). I know I have some the UDCC Jordan cards but I don't remember seeing this one.

I will get to the last purchase from this seller (on my way out the door) in a different post. 

The next purchase was just two cards from a pair of elderly ladies. They had a bunch of autographed photos and memorabilia on the 2 little tables they were at. But across the front of 1 of the tables they were laying out mainly autographed and relics of people I never heard of with a sign saying half off prices marked. I picked two cards. One was marked a dollar, and the other was marked $5.00. Now, I knew who these two were one more so than the other. I reached in my wallet and seen I had 2 singles, so I asked if 2 was okay (instead of the $3) and she said sure.

I needed the America's Pastime for that set build fortunately (I didn't know), and Longoria relic. $2.00 for these two cards was a good thing.

I'll have more from the show tomorrow and the next day too. Maybe 1 or 2 posts next week as well.