[Jiri Hrdina]

Thought I would start a thread on this, as it is a renewed interest for me.
I collected cards during the late 80s/early 90s junk wax era, and then fell out of interest.

The Tim Horton's cards got my daughtered interested, and then we started to dabble in the overall hobby and have gotten increasingly into it.

I'll preface this by saying I'm not interested in discussions around the fact that you don't make money on sports cards. I'm not doing this to make money. My primary reasons are it is wonderful to have a shared interest and hobby with my daughter, it strikes a nostalgic chord with me, and I'm now in position where I can spend a little bit of money on it.

Curious if others are into it and what sets they are collecting. Everyone is chasing Bedard right now, which is fun. I bought a box of Allure the other day, and I think it's one of the more solid products from this year. Curious what others are into and what they think are fun packs.

But I've also dabbled in ripping some junk wax. I bought a handful of junk wax from a shop in Montana, and pulled a Ray Bourque certified auto-card that somehow seems to be in mint or near-mint condition. In addition, I found in my old collection a rookie card of Chipper Jones I didn't know I had. And I have pulled RCs of Kirby Puckett and Orel Hershiser from junk wax packs. I know there is a ton of this stuff around, but still fun.

Amongst newer stuff I've gotten a couple Bedards, no autos and not his YG but I did get a numbered card of his.

Any other discussion would be great, including favorite card shops in Calgary, etc.

We could potentially also get into some trading on here.