What were you buying in 1985 ?
clarke442
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I believe I bought 2 sets . . . Now to find the sets.
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1989 Donruss.
It was that abundant.
In 1985 I went to toys r us and bought a topps baseball factory set to get the Dwight Gooden card.
I think the set was $15
Garbage Pail Kids!! Loved those 1st and 2nd series cards.
1985 Donruss packs at summer camp. Various 1985 Topps BB packs here and there. And I got a 1985 Topps BB factory set (tan box) for Christmas later that year. Every card O/C.
Kiss me twice.....let's party.
I also had Garbage Pail Kids, but tons of these every afternoon when i heard the music.
I bought some of those mint sets. They weren’t mint.
Stickers and Garbage Pail Kids. Couldn't afford the GPK packs so got them a couple at a time from the vending machine.
I can still remember the day I pulled a Nervous Rex and a 1968 Topps Boog Powell on the same dime - it was basically winning the lottery.
Transformers and legos. Baseball cards were still a year away for me.
kevin
I was playing with GI Joes in the bathtub at that age. I also had a rubber ducky.
Buying all the '85 Topps baseball I could for the Gooden and John Marzano rookies. Donruss was a tough find retail, never saw Fleer at retail.
Buying 1985 topps boxes at smart and final. I think I bought around 10 boxes and used all my allowance on cards.
Saw very little fleer or donruss retail. 1985 was my last year before coming back in 1989 after my stint with the Army.
rubbers
ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240
unfortunately, not much..1985 and 1986 were my 3rd and 4th years in college...man, missed out on Lemieux and Jordan rookies....I'm sure I would have had a good number of them as I bought a lot of cards before those years and after too...
1985 Topps looking for Dwight Gooden and occasionally cello packs from Revco of 1985 Fleer. Money was tight and so it wasn't many packs. My dad one night brought home a ton of cello packs of the 85 Fleer and my older brother got first dibs on the cards he needed to complete his set. I had to give away my favorite card.
Got Pete back when my parents moved and decided he needed to live in safety.
I bought a 1975 rack pack with Nolan Ryan on top for $10.00. May have been ‘86 or ‘87, but I remember this well.
I remember buying a few packs of Rocky 4 cards in '85. Garbage Pail Kids and Topps baseball would follow in '86.
1985 was my first real year collecting. Topps was all they had at Ben Franklin where I lived. Money was tight so I probably opened less than a box total, never pulled the Gooden but did get a McGwire which wasn’t that big a deal in 1985. I still have that McGwire card in a thick screw down from that general era.
Also got a factory set as a present so I did have a Gooden. Fun times and memories for sure. I remember a friends dad who was big into collecting and he had a page of Goodens, including Donruss and Leaf. Leaf from Canada???, it blew my ten year old mind.
79 Camaro with a straight 6
I was buying transformers, GI Joes and garbage pail kids. Baseball cards would come a few years later
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I was 12 buying any Pete Rose cards I could afford, Topps Traded and Fleer Update sets and then went crazy for the Donruss Highlights set, thought it was just the coolest thing ever
I was buying 1984, 1985 fleer and Topps boxes. In those year, donruss boxes were always more expensive. You could pick up ‘82 fleer and donruss boxes on the cheap in 1985.
$9.20 a box at Smart and Final that summer if I remember right.
Good times with a smart and final on my way to school. Man, they had boxes and boxes of topps, but no donruss or fleer. My only limitation was my allowance and I spent about every penny on cards. $9.20 a box sounds about right.
Skateboard, Bass Guitar, 3 Musketeers bars and lots of cassingles!
H**kers and Bl*w
Jk Garbage pail kids
I quit card collecting in 83 and didn't jump back in until 87. In 85 I was buying cassette tapes of my favorite rock bands and playing the hell out my guitar.
Baseball Cards were not on my radar in 1985, but I was doing the OPC baseball and hockey sticker books every year and definitely Wacky Packages. For some reason, the smell of the OPC stickers and probably OPC Wacky Packages was like a cheap drug and the closest I have ever got into drugs...
A house that I later gave to a woman I hated. I have an odd habit of that. 😂
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
In addition to the regular baseball issues, a ton of Slurpees to get those coins at 7-11.