Announcing TMV Christmas Cards 2019!

December marks one of my favorite times of the year for collecting and blogging because of what's become my yearly tradition of sending out Christmas cards.  I'd been the recipient of the same in the past--sometimes involving actual greeting cards--and decided that was something I'd like to do.

This year I put together a PWE, two flat rate padded Priority envelopes, and 15 bubble mailers--a mix of the larger and smaller variety.  These are filled with cards I found at shows over the last few months, parts of my collection I've pared down, and in some cases, person-specific items from COMC (plus one person got a nice eBay haul).

I don't have an image of all of the envelopes at once this year because I sent them out in a staggered fashion over the last three or four days.  Not out of any desire to have them show up at a specific time, mind you, but because it always takes longer than you think to finalize pulling just a few more cards, getting them safely packed up, writing a quick note, weighing them, and printing postage.  I have a blast sending these out but sometimes doing a couple at a time and then taking a break is a bit more manageable.

Although I shared something along the lines of this list out on my Twitter account over the last few days, some of you don't follow me or aren't on Twitter at all, which is totally fine, so I thought I'd get the list up here and get folks excited about checking their mailboxes over the coming week.  Also, if you don't follow some of them, please consider checking them out!

• Sports Cards From the Dollar Store (sent first since they have to cross the border and take longer)
• $30 a Week Habit, @30aweekhabit
• All Trade Bait All the Time, @omsports42
• Arpsmith's Sports Card Obsession, @arpsmith44
• Baseball Card Breakdown, @breakdowncards
• Bob Walk the Plank, @walktheplank82
• Brad's Blog
• Bump & Run Football Card Blog
• Cardboard Collections, @flywheels
• Cards on Cards, @cardsoncards
• Chronicles of Fuji, @sanjosefuji
• The Collector
• John's Big League Baseball Blog, @freehan11
• My Sports Obsession, @sportsobsession6
• Nachos Grande, @Nachos_Grande
• Scribbled Ink, @Scribble4me
• Sport Card Collectors, @SportCardCollec
• Topps Cards That Never Were

Keep your eyes on these fine blogs (which you should be doing anyway) in the next week or two as packages start getting delivered and posted.  I'm looking forward to getting some fun reactions based on stuff I grabbed for at least some of these folks.

And as for me, I'm fortunate to have a couple incoming packages of my own to share, something I'll try to do pretty soon.  And then, who knows?  Maybe I'll manage to get some of my COMC loot posted before the end of the year.