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Where are you when you open packs?

lawnmowermanswifelawnmowermanswife Posts: 683 ✭✭
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Where are you at typically when you open packs? Livingroom, office, car, toilet?
Tonya

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,783 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have opened only about 20 packs in the past few years and EVERY time it is as soon as I get to my car outside of the card shop. I buy only for the gum image
  • LeiascardsLeiascards Posts: 3,233
    I try to wait and open them at home but it is usually after I leave the store.
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433


    << <i>Where are you at typically when you open packs? Livingroom, office, car, toilet? >>



    Is this your way of finding out if how Matt opens packs is, well, weird?
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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  • lawnmowermanswifelawnmowermanswife Posts: 683 ✭✭


    << <i>Is this your way of finding out if how Matt opens packs is, well, weird? >>



    No, just wondering what most collectors do image
    Tonya
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433


    << <i>Is this your way of finding out if how Matt opens packs is, well, weird?

    No, just wondering what most collectors do. >>



    Admit it. Matt parks the John Deere in the living room, cracks open a beer and rips packs like there is no tomorrow.

    On a side note, I open my packs in the car...even if I get them in the mail...
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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    Looking for Al Hrabosky and any OPC Dave Campbells (the ESPN guy)
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
    For some reason I always wait til I'm on the computer, ebay or CU.
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,601 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Where are you at typically when you open packs? >>



    That's private. image
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    I open mine in the tub, with candles, relaxing music and lots of bubbles image

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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    seedy motel.....it's where i go to engage in all of my guilty pleasures image
  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭

    Wife upstairs on her computer. Me laying on the couch downstairs.

    Sports on the TV, a cold glass of booze in front of me, and then a very slow, enjoyable rip ...
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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭


    << <i>seedy motel.....it's where i go to engage in all of my guilty pleasures image >>




    Did you mean CDs motel??? imageimageimage



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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I open my packs on a roller coaster.
  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    living room, on coffe table, sports on wide screen image
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  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    I am always tempted to open them in the car, but we hold off until we get home because I don't like them moving around too much after I open them .

    99.9% of the time it is in the den , spotless table wiped down twice , nothing on the table except the boxes of cards and the scissors .

    Hold it . . . hold it . . . . hold it , is that a wet spot on the table . . . Oh , OK, we're good it's just so Effin clean it just looks wet image

    " Anthony , did you check the table ??? Good, then check it again image"

    One day a card hit the floor !!!

    You would swear to God , time stood still in my house for a little bit , you coulda heard a pin drop .

    And I "KNOW", I'm not alone in that department either image
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    You mean you can open them?
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  • bhelserbhelser Posts: 667
    as soon as I get to my car I rip.....If I try to have self control and wait until I get home, I usually end up ripping them at a red light.....until I get honked at for it being green.
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  • kuhlmannkuhlmann Posts: 3,326 ✭✭
    on computer desk. watching mets or cowboys on big screen. if no game on. usually watching rocky movies!

    wife and kids always picking the cards up and me freaking saying wait not that one its a short print image
  • bigdcardsbigdcards Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭
    If I buy it in a card shop I open it right there. If it's from somewhere else then I open it on the nearest table from when it gets into my hands. I have a hard time saving packs for very long.
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  • lawnmowermanswifelawnmowermanswife Posts: 683 ✭✭


    << <i>Anthony , did you check the table ??? Good, then check it again >>



    You should just buy a table cloth you only put down to open cards on, then take it off when you're done. That way you don't have to worry about moisture, food crumbs or other things on the table.
    Tonya
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have put in a clean room in the basement. It has filters to keep all dust out.

    I also have a sterile body suit like the folks at CDC.
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  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,601 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You should just buy a table cloth you only put down to open cards on, then take it off when you're done. >>



    A) WAY too much work.

    B) There is never a need for a table cloth in the baseball card arena.

    Women....sheeesh. What's next, figuring out how to get all the dust out of my office/card room?
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    Women....sheeesh. What's next, figuring out how to get all the dust out of my office/card room? >>



    Thats too easy!

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  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    thats what i do matt, those are fun!!!!i like blowing out my card room into the garage(both linked togher) and making a dust cloud when cars stop at the stop sign
    randy
  • PasadenaMudSlidePasadenaMudSlide Posts: 732
    I usually rip at the local Asian Therapeutic Massage Parlor.

    After a rub and a tug, of course.
  • GuruGuru Posts: 3,127
    I am now carrying peeny sleeves and top loaders in my glove compartment. I can't handle the pressure of waiting till I get home. The Bowman Heritage, though, has been opened while my wife and I watch TV.
  • OverratedOverrated Posts: 454 ✭✭
    In the alley behind the liquor store, with a brown bag with mad dog 20/20 in it. When I pull something nice I fear I will be bum rushed! but the rent is cheap.
  • EagleEyeKidEagleEyeKid Posts: 4,496 ✭✭
    If I buy some packs at a shop, I'll open them right there and either toss them in the trash (I never get anything good), or just hand them back to the owner to give out to kids. If I buy cases, I'll ususally open up a box here and there in front of the TV, or to satisfy those late night cravings just for the sake of ripping.
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    On a motel bed covered in hooker sweat, tears and cocaine....
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>On a motel bed covered in hooker sweat, tears and cocaine.... >>



    You forgot to mention the little HIV dudes swimming around in her sweat image

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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    I open them in bed and leave all the empty packs on the bed then I have my wife, well I just won't go any further with that.image
  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭
    Typically I am in a state of euphoria.

    Afterward, I am typically in a state of depression.

    They are very similar places I am in when my grades finally pop.
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  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    Usually I take them with me when I'm about to go on a 30 minute bombing mission in the bathroom. I don my leather jacket, scarf, and goggles and take a few wax packs with me to open while the bombing run proceeds.




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  • LeiascardsLeiascards Posts: 3,233
    I usually rip at the local Asian Therapeutic Massage Parlor.

    That is a guaranteed happy ending there..
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Usually I take them with me when I'm about to go on a 30 minute bombing mission in the bathroom. I don my leather jacket, scarf, and goggles and take a few wax packs with me to open while the bombing run proceeds.




    Ron >>



    If some ink falls in the bowl, are you prepared to go Kamikaze?
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    It depends on how badly I've already strafed the bowl.........if a good carpet bombing has already occurred, I'll call off any Kamikaze mission.




    Ron
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    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
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