Busting Wax

Welcome to the inaugural post of bustingwax.com, the newest Card blog on the block.

I recently got back into the hobby after a ten year and then a five year hiatus. I’ll get more into my history with the hobby in other posts, but the long and short of it is that I collected cards as a kid (from about ’85-’92) and then didn’t buy another pack of cards until 2001. I purchased packs steadily for about a year and then petered off for another five. I’ve recently rediscovered my love of the hunt and I love to bust me some wax packs (even though, yeah, no wax.) It feels great to be back.

I’ve been blogging for almost seven years now. I started a personal blog shortly after 9/11. I’ve also been blogging at my video game site, buttonmashing.com for 3.5 years. Most recently, a year and a half ago, I started an Ohio State sports blog with some friends, Men of the Scarlet and Gray. I’m a HUGE Buckeye fan. So when I started buying cards again last month, I had the great idea for a new blog where I’d rip open packs, take pictures along the way, and show the world my wonderful pulls. Surely no one had done this before! So I started looking around and found on A TON of card blogs, some that were doing this very thing. I’ve been subscribing to them like a madman and loving every minute of it. You can find them in my blogroll.

As with every great idea, someone else got there first. But that’s okay. I’ve got some ideas of my own for this site. I plan on including more images than some of the other sites and I also hope to do some other fun things. Either way, I’m just looking forward to sharing my adventures in busting open packs!