Cleve's Auction Night: Kick Starting a Few New Sets

First off, I wanted any of you who have enjoyed my Cleve's posts to know that Cleve has been in poor health lately.  Cleve, I know you read my blog when you can, so I wanted you to know my thoughts and prayers are with you and I hope you get to feeling better soon, as are all the folks out there that enjoy reading about your auctions!

I had a couple of write in wins at this week's auction, and as such, need to add a couple of sets to my master checklist:

I guess I'm going to go after this cool di cut set now that I have a few of them.  I won with a min $2 bid on this Pujols, which I thought was good bargain. 

I've also been working on a 2012 Gypsy Queen master set, but had intended to skip the minis.  However, I got a lot of 50+ cards from the auction and along with what I already own, I've got enough to warrant chasing the rest.  I'll add the mini's (and the Chrome di-cut) to my master checklist soon and hopefully I can keep building it through trades.

Here are most of the minis I won:

Yeah, these are pretty cool, and will look great in the Gypsy Queen binder.

Grades:

2012 Topps Chrome Di-Cut Pujols $2:  A-  Very cool card, and I'm not going to get it cheaper than that anywhere.

2012 Gypsy Queen Mini lot of 54  $5:  A+  I'll take minis at $.10 a piece any time, and this is a great way to jump start building the set.

Tomorrow, I'll give the preview of Tuesday's auction.

When The Cat’s Away, Napkin Will…

…pretty much not do anything about it.   Last week, I put the lovely wife on a plane for a much deserved four day mini vacation to visit some friends out of state.   After sort of being successful curbing my spending during August-erity, I figured these four days would be like a big window of debauchery for me.  By debauchery, I mean I would buy a ton of cards, and feed myself and the kids junk food the whole time.  I was going to go hog wild at Cleve’s and put in a bunch of write in bids for Tuesday nights auction.  I was going to write at least 20 blog posts and cue them up.  I was going to watch the Razorbacks pound ULM.  I took Thursday and Friday off from work and was only going to turn it loose!

Eh, it didn’t really happen that way. 

Oh my god taking care of two kids by yourself is exhausting!  I had a blast with them, but man they never slow down!    I took my two year old with me to Cleve’s while the six year old was in school, but soon came to my senses and realized taking a two year old into a store filled with expensive items that are easily torn was not too bright, so I got out of there before any damage was done, which is why I didn’t do a Cleve-view Sunday. 

And we ate pretty healthy.  And I have no comment about the Razorbacks.

I didn’t buy the piles of cards that I thought I would, but did get a couple of blasters of Topps Chrome:

I’ve noticed that Salvador Perez has been in each pack that’s had a Yu Darvish.  That’s great with me, since I’m trying to build up my Perez collection.   It’s two wins in the pack as far as I’m concerned.

In short, I didn’t really do much with cards and focused more on the kids while the lovely wife was away.  Are you expecting me to say time with the kids was more fulfilling?  Come on, of course it was.