It's Not Always About The Hits II

Hello everybody! Hope everyone is doing well and not letting the impending holidays stress you out too much.

Card-wise I have decided to stop attending shows. I went to a few in the beginning of the year and quickly realized if you're not into graded basketball cards you can skip about 80% of the tables. If you're not into graded anything, bump that number up to about 95%. Wax is still too expensive...I find it funny that boxes of junk wax that a couple of years ago you would be upset to have someone try to give to you for FREE are now trying to be sold at $60. There are a few tables that have dimeboxes but there are already people at each table and I don't feel like waiting around because if they are anything like me they will be there for a while. I might try again next year and see if anything is different.

And who is grading packs of 1989 Topps? $49.00 for a PSA9 unopened wax pack of 1989 Topps on Baseball Card Exchange. For the life of me I have no idea why you would buy this. What's the point of severely overpaying for something if it's embarrassing to brag about it? 

Fortunately in the midst of overpriced stuff I can still find things I can use without paying a lot...like boxes of commons. My LCS will sometimes have 1500 count boxes for 10 bucks. 1500 cards and a 1500 ct box to store them in...such a deal.

Let's see what's inside this time.

2020 Topps Allen & Ginter - 70 cards.

2019 Topps Archives - 80 cards.

2015 Topps Series 1 - 147 cards.

1993 Classic 4 Sport - 45 cards.

2006 Flair Showcase - 9 cards.

2019 Topps Series 1 - 256 cards.

2019 Donruss Optic - 7 cards.

2018 Topps Update  - 235 cards.

2008 Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects Baseball Prospect Set Gold Parallels - 4 cards.

(This long winded name was apparently needed to differentiate it from the 2008 Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects set which looks completely different.)

2008 Upper Deck Series 1 1969 O-Pee-Chee Inserts - 30 cards.

These were only found in Series 1 Hobby packs falling at the rate of 4 per Hobby box.

1993 Upper Deck - 193 cards.

1993 Classic Four Sport - 32 cards.

2019 Topps Archives - 42 cards.

2020 Panini Diamond Kings  - 212 cards.

Included in that were 7 All - Time Diamond King Inserts...

1 DK 206 Insert..

...and a One of One Joe McCarthy Masterpiece Parallel.

2019 Topps Gallery - 156 cards.

So has anyone else attended shows and found the same thing...or are shows (if you have any) different in your neighborhood?

Thanks for reading!