Stacking and slacking

 I recently discovered something on Twitter called a "stack sale", which is where a seller puts up a series of posts with cards for sale, generally on the lower end of the price spectrum, and you claim the cards you want. When the seller finishes the sale, they send you a total, you pay them and then they send you the cards. It's kinda like digging through a box at a show and pulling what you want but from a distance. 

I really enjoy doing this. My most common person to buy from is JTmailman but I have also stacked with LeBron's Locker and BiggE. (and in case you're wondering, LeBron's Locker is not only NBA, although that's what I bought from him- LeBron is his last name)

One thing you have to worry about in the stack sales is not getting there fast enough. The more popular a stacker is, the more competition there is. I've missed out on several cards I would have added because they were claimed before I even saw the post. 

This is my most recent stack sale arrival, from JT Mailman, and covered everything I collect, although most of it was a Simpsons set I've never heard of before, which appears to be a Chinese set from last year. I even grabbed a baseball card, because it's a hologram and I love holograms. And I may not actively collect baseball but I will spend either a quarter or a dime (I forget what it cost) on a hologram any day of the week. 

My previous sale was a smaller one and came from LeBron's Locker.

I got NBA exclusively from him, although he also had football and I think baseball available. 

I can't seem to find the photos of my previous stacks with JT Mailman or BiggE. I've been a little bit slacking in processing pictures and doing the stuff I should be doing. The slacking in the title? Yeah that's part of it. Mostly however it refers to my paper listing. This is what defines my collection, and it's how I know what I have. It is normally the be-all-end-all for my collection, so much so that at one time I didn't count a card as part of my collection if I didn't list it in my paper listing. 

I normally do my paper listing on a fold up card table in my room, but I took that down in either April or May to put my air conditioner in, and I haven't put it back up so I could do some cleaning and other stuff. I haven't listed any of my new additions since then, and it's stacking up, although not as much as it could be since I haven't really been getting too many cards this year. In fact, I've not opened some of the cards I've gotten specifically so I wouldn't have more to list and be backlogged on. 

I've been spending almost all my time on my modeling, but the fall is here and very soon it will be too cold to work on models. I will catch up on my card listing when that happens, which most likely will be before the end of this month if tradition holds true, or the first few days of November if not. 
I'll also get back to scanning then I suspect, I've only done about 20 cards all summer. 

Speaking of slacking...I got the most recent batch of cards from JT Mailman on September 21st, and LeBron's Locker on September 19th. I thought of the post title on the 21st but I didn't edit the pictures or actually write the post until October 14th.