Night Owl Cards

  So I grabbed a blaster of 2025 Heritage when I was at Dave and Adam's last week. I know they're not called "blasters" anymore but it's still the word I use when I want people to know what I am talking about.   Buying Heritage is instinct at this point. We're at the designs during my first years of collecting. While I could pick-and-choose whether I was going to collect Heritage 10-15 years ago (1966 design? Pass), these designs mean so much to me that every year I think seriously "am I trying to complete the set this year?"   This thought would seem ridiculous a few years ago -- it took me more than a decade to finish 2008 Heritage. But in the last two years, I have completed 2023 Heritage (1974 design) and 2024 Heritage (1975 design) within the year. It can be done. Should I go for the trifecta?   It's tricky. Because Heritage is tricky. Here are the pros and cons to attempting a third straight completion:   PROS   1. I love the 1976 design. A...

  As far as card-opening experiences go, my Christmas this year wasn't as great as last year . Last year was tough to beat for sure. This year, my sister-in-law did not come through with the complete set of 2023 flagship after doing so the previous two years. She's amazingly consistent with her gift-giving so I'm assuming she couldn't find it at her nearby big box.  Instead, along with the binder and pages she always gets me, she got a hanger of 2023 Heritage. That's right up my alley, but I'm down to the final three cards I need, so all that produced was a Daylight Savings Time insert. That brings me to the dueling Allen & Ginter blasters, one from my daughter and one from her boyfriend. I put A&G on my Christmas list. Unfortunately, it was the only brand of cards I put on my list. I am required to get my list out in October due to a certain early shopper and at the time A&G was the desired product. But in the weeks that followed, I lost my interest...