u/mamallama12

I was reading an article on USA Today when I noticed an eBay ad for a graded Charizard card. It looked a lot like how I photograph my cards, so out of curiosity I clicked on the ad, and sure enough, it took me to my own listing! Perhaps this is only mildly interesting, but I thought it might be worth sharing.

On my listings, most things are promoted at 2% or not at all, and seeing my listing in an ad on USA Today makes it seem as if I'm really getting my 2%'s worth.

Was watching HNN, and one of the stories was about bringing rice crops back to Kaua'i. The report mentioned that Hawai'i brings in 140 million lbs. of rice per year. Our state population is about 1.4 million, so that's about 100 lbs. per man, woman, and child. So, howzit? You over, under or right there?

Every time I click in, there's new stuff in my RFY as well as both AFA and AI. As someone who usually just goes in during the evening drop, it's been slightly freaking me out.

I use Lava hand soap because sometimes I can't get the fragrance out of my skin with regular soap, so I scrub and scrub with the Lava bar, which works, but then it leaves a scent of its own. I see that Lava has an unscented variety, but there aren't any available on Amazon.

Been selling on eBay since 1999. First sale was a complete first edition base set for $1000. Imagine that!

I live in a small town and finally went to my first card show this weekend. I had two goals: sell my last year's worth of PSA magazines with one MTG promo card still in them and sell a sealed Ancient Mew.

I accepted $130 for the Ancient Mew because I felt that the bag was creased. I was surprised at how easy it was. The first booth offered me $100, second $90, and then I accepted the third offer. Unlike selling on eBay, there was no need for photos, no listing, no fees, it was pretty cool. I kept every cent.

But my post today is really about how fascinated I was about how none of the approximately eight vendors I offered my magazines to had ever heard of them. None were aware of the PSA Collectors Club subscription. One vendor even said he'd never heard of PSA! Yet, they all had slabs galore.

I was so flabbergasted that I asked ChatGPT about it, and it suggested that these vendors are mostly merchants, buying and selling product rather than hobbyist/sellers like me. It was still so odd to me as a collector-investor, but bottom line, I did sell the magazines for $20 and that Ancient Mew, and aside from the weird PSA thing, it was a much better experience than I expected it to be.

Reformed chicken feeder here, but after a very expensive lesson from my neighbor, some sad mass kills by other neighbors, and the rising cost of chicken scratch, I realized the error of my ways and stopped about two years ago. But, they kept multiplying. I hired a chicken wrangler, and he got rid of half of 'em, but with spring, they're back up in numbers again.

Today, I figured out why. I'd seen clues before, but today, I saw it with my own eyes: a neighbor is driving by and throwing out bread and bagels for them in my front yard! No wonder I can't get rid of them.

Yesterday, three kids tried running into my back yard to get chickens there. I happened to be standing right there. "We're just looking at them," they said. Before that, I saw them decline to run onto a neighbor's property, saying, "Guys, camera," and then retreating.

This afternoon, I hear "click, click, click, squawk, squawk, squawk," and I go outside, and there's a different boy there with a BB rifle. "What are you doing?!" I yelled, "Are you shooting chickens?" He says, "no," as he stands there in my front yard with a rifle and chickens running around, well, like chickens."

All this to say, don't feed the feral chickens. It leads nowhere good. I know, I did this to myself, and, no, I'm not Chicken.