Night Owl Cards

  Apologies for the negative self-talk in the blog title here. This isn't about you, it's all me, and I need to work on that. But I thought if I wrote things out I'd finally get myself into gear. I've needed a few binders and the pages that go with them for several months now. The completed -- or about to be completed -- sets are piling up. I don't like stashing complete sets in boxes, that's a terrible fate for something so carefully crafted. So they are stacked and waiting all around the card room, and, yes, a couple are in boxes as a last resort. In stacks are my complete 2024 Heritage set and my soon-to-be-complete 2024 Topps flagship set. Another stack contains what I have for 1987 Fleer. It's a long way from completion, but it's there, quietly telling me that a binder is needed for that, too. Two sets that should be in binders are now in boxes -- the almost complete 2024 Heritage minis set and the getting-there 1985 Donruss set. These guys need to ...

It's a good thing that I have a vacation coming up soon because I think I've reached the breaking point in terms of real life affecting my hobby. A couple of weeks ago -- I think it was a couple weeks ago, who really knows at this point -- Mark Hoyle sent me a few oddball items to help me with my collecting of oddball items. I'll explain. I've lamented that there is really no easy way to store super-small items, like micro cards and stamps, in your collection as far as pages. So Mark sent a couple of smaller pocket pages -- tobacco-card type pages -- that I believe he said has helped him with such tiny items. I believe he said it because I don't have the email he sent anymore. I lost it. No doubt, it was caught up in the great email purge back a few days, or was it weeks? -- I don't know, who really knows at this point. He also sent some of these: I know these are supposed to help with storage, I know the email Mark sent probably addressed this, b...