July card show pick ups

 I totally forgot about the June card show until 2 hours after it was closed.  My usual dealer that sells me the majority of the cards I buy thought the show was slow, but when I went to search this guys $0.25 boxes, I couldn't get in to save my life!  I was hoping to go through his football cards, but oh well, another time.  The majority of my pickups this month were refractors and Kyle Schwarber cards. Schwarber is the one I pegged as I would stop collecting first out of the Cubs big 4 that are now gone (Rizzo, Bryant and Baez).  However, I'm still missing quite a few of his Cubs cards, so I was able to get some this month.  My dealer also had some great mid-late 80's insert set cards that I haven't seen or had the chance to get until now!

Old dudes PCs

SP Sandberg

I love both of these cards

Picked up several from this Score All Star Game set

PC guys

SP Benny and Lacy refractor

Pratto refractor

Had to get this because of the color of swatch

This was a nice little surprise to pick up

I bought one of those care display cases for my office wall, and the only Patrick Mahomes card I had was a HIT silver card of him in his Texas Tech uniform, but no logos (of course).  I will settle on this one, for now.  I would love to put a rookie card or something cool in there without blowing the mortgage on it.  I'll keep searching.

2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks

 Even though this is a 2021 product, I have a soft spot for college cards.  The price tag on these college blaster boxes is always high, that's why I usually just buy one!

Cubs prospects

Prizm

Inserts...too bad they didn't scan well.

Catchers

2020 Bowman

 Finally, I found some Bowman!  I hesitate, briefly, at the now $25 price tag on blaster boxes, but I'm a sucker!

The packs

First card

PC cards 

Inserts

Hits

Expiring rebate money

 I had some rebate money from some contacts I bought last fall.  Not sure why it took me so long to spend it, but it did, and I almost lost the money!  I was hoping to use it on COMC, but because it was expiring, it wouldn't let me add it to my COMC account, so instead I went shopping on eBay for some needs I had.

One of two Judge's I need for this insert set from 2017.

For my Iowa Hawkeye auto/relic collection frame

Completed 2017 Update insert set!

Completed 2020 Bowman Chrome Prospects!

2022 Gypsy Queen

 I always enjoy Gypsy Queen every year.  There were a few years where I didn't care for the design, but I still love how they feel in my hands and they look great with TTM autos on them.

First card

Pack 2

Pack 3

Pack 4

Pack 5

Pack 6

Pack 7

Player collection goodies

Hits

Short print

Inserts and parallells 

I like this insert set!

You can never go wrong with Gypsy Queen blue and green parallels!

Monthly card show pick-ups

 I just love my "vendor by the door!"  He is a smart guy and is fair.  He always brings new stuff, and I'm developing quite a rapport with him.  In fact, we were able to make a deal for some cards I really need for my PC.  I like to have an auto and relic of every team the players in my PC plays for.  These two cards are huge pick-ups for me, following the Kris Bryant my vendor sold me last month.

The rest of my goodies:

Interesting pick-up

I collecting anything to do with the ASG held in KC

Of course I'm going after the 2022 1987 Insert set

Needed this to help complete Series 1