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A Week in Kardboard

10/06

Started off the day like any other Monday. Took the kids to school, came to the restaurant, and started on the Week in Review, and Card of the Week Posts for Instagram and Facebook.

Started working on Spoiler Season. Still need to finish up the Starters to post them. Those will be up by Friday. The Latest.

Took the whole family out for practice today. Mostly worked on passing, and a little bit of dribbling.

Yeah, Monday’s are a bit slow around here, but it sets up our week.

10/07

I just realized that our Sticker Machine was out of Pokemon cards! So, I had to look for cards to restock it. I usually fill it up with Japanese cards, as the kids that get them always get excited. Always Holos, and always at least Double Rares. That’s what keeps them coming back.

Still trying to figure out what I got to do with the Jeep. It seems like lately all of my cars have problems in one way or another.

10/08

Busy day today. The Starter Sets are selling consistently.

The kids had Soccer Practice today. Picked them up from school, and we headed straight over there. The Coach said if anyone scores a goal from the other side of the field, all of the coaches will run a lap around the field. Guess who put it in? Yep, my kid. My kid had the coaches running.

Did a restock for Resurgence of Power on TCG Player and eBay.

Night time was 99 Nights in the Forest time. My daughter didn’t want to play, and me and my son beat our record by a couple of days. She was so mad that she wasn’t playing. Oh well. We can all play again tomorrow.

10/09

Had a whole bunch of Bulk come in today. 13,500 MTG cards. And, now they all need to be sorted. I usually do it in few stages. First I sort by Decade, then Year, then Set, then Alphabetically. I got through about 4,500 today. Then I ran out of time and had to go get the little ones from school.

The lights went out in the Bathroom. Instead of just changing a bulb, I decided to change the whole fixture. Or at least try to. I got it all hooked up, and for some reason the light stayed on. Couldn’t turn it off. So, I just took it down and tried to figure out what I did wrong.

A little bit of Roblox with the kids, and I was off to bed early.

10/10

It’s time to tackle that Mountain of MTG Bulk.

But, first we posted our review for the Starter Sets that came out last Friday.

It was a busy day at the restaurant and didn’t get a chance to get much done. Lot’s of running around. Driving around actually. But, it’s all right. I have to keep myself busy, if I don’t, I get lazy.

10/11

Today is the last game before the tournament next week. My daughter was sick today, so she didn’t come to the game. Just my son. He was feeling a bit sick last night as well, but I woke him up in the morning and he said he was feeling good, and wanted to go play.

So, off we went. We got there a bit early. There wasn’t too much traffic this morning. Our team had just enough kids to play today. I knew one other kid wasn’t going to come today, and my daughter was sick, but there were 2 more kids that didn’t show up.

Doesn’t matter, that just means my kid will play the whole game.

And, he made me proud just like always. He started out on Defense. Made a clean sliding tackle. Then he played goalie today. No one scored on him. After that he was in the Midfield and finally Forward. He didn’t score, but he created chances. We did lose, 4-1. And that’s ok. It’s next week that we have to worry about.

But, the referees suck. One kid on the other team had 4 blatant hand balls, and they never got called once for it. One was even in the penalty box, and nothing. But, my kid does a header, and he gets called.

After the game, we got a snack, and went to play a bit more soccer.

10/12

I didn’t get much sleep last night, and I am tired.

Finished up the first sort for all of the MTG bulk that came in.

Took a nap.

Got the orders ready to be shipped out, even though I think the Post Office is closed tomorrow.

Played 99 Nights in the Forest, with Naki and we’ve all been trying to get my wife to play with us. Hopefully she will. It’s a fun game when we’re playing all together.

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99 Kards in the Korner

08/11

Gunslinger in the Abyss release weekend is over, but that doesn’t mean we’re done. We still have plenty of work to do. Our stock is dwindling down, and our singles are running low. We’ll be ordering more boosters soon enough, and we also have the World Championship Decks coming out later this month. You know we will be getting those. Lots of good cards in that one.

What about the singles?

The Legends are pretty much out of stock at the moment, and that means we need to open up a couple more Booster Boxes. We’re saying couple because, they are half boxes now, as you all already know. We will be recording it as always, so you’ll be able to see what Full Arts will be added to the site.

After seeing everyone yesterday at Game Knight’s Local Qualifier, I had the itch and needed to go and see everybody. Plus I had a couple of decks to try out. The Bomb Squad and OctoPirates. So, I headed out to today’s Local’s and was glad I did. Both we’re fun to play. And when all was said and done, I came out 0-6!

I told you all, I’m terrible at this game.

Got home after midnight, and took care of orders. Didn’t finish until 2AM.

08/12

It was raining all last night, and that means the Flea Market in Robbins will not be open today. Mostly because it’s on a dirt lot, and all that water will have gotten the lot all muddy, and no one wants to sit in that.

Finished up Gunslinger in the Abyss – Limit Break

30 day plan? We’re ready to start on it again.

Took a look at our Shipping Policy and Return Policy. There were none! How? I though I had done this years ago. Apparently not, so I drafted them up and they are now on the site. This took care of Day 8 and Day 9.

Ordered some toploaders today, hopefully they’ll get here before I run out. And, that’s a challenge. So let’s run out of toploaders! I don’t see it happening though, I still have a bunch of Beanie Babies Toploaders, I’ll just use those. And, yes they are a real thing. They’re very thin though. Can hold only one card in each, where as the other toploaders I can put 3, maybe 4 if they’re thin Pokemon cards.

08/13

Spent the morning working on the website. Adding listings, fixing the calendar. Mostly back of the house stuff.

The 30 day plan for today and tomorrow was about pictures, and since we use stock photos, there’s nothing to update. Maybe we should start taking pictures, but how are you going to take pre-orders without a stock photo?

Did 2 box openings tonight. One for Gunslinger in the Abyss. And, one for Union Arena – Full Metal Alchemist. Gunslinger in the Abyss is already on YouTube, and Full Metal will probably be there next week.

Also realized that the World Championship Decks are coming out soon. Put them up for Pre-Order!

08/14

Restock on Gunslinger in the Abyss, these cards are flying off the shelf. We might have to open some more. Same thing with Union Arena, we’re already selling singles from the box. Might have to find more. Might have to start picking it up as our second game.

We had gotten some Jujutsu Kaisen as part of a collection and those did pretty well. I’m going to have to look into this game a little bit more. Or, if you have some you want to get rid of, you know where to hit me up. If you don’t, then kardboardkorner@gmail.com

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08/15

Friday was a busy day at the restaurant, so I couldn’t get much done here, except post a short video on YouTube.

Also started a restock on Opus XI. managed to get half way done.

I had picked up “The Kids Are Alright – A Turks Side Story” about 5, maybe 6 years ago, read the first couple of pages and then forgot about it. It doesn’t start off too good, that might be why I haven’t read it. But then, I picked it up out of nowhere and started reading. The first couple of pages almost made me put it away again, but I kept reading. Eventually, it did get better. I don’t know if it’s because the Turks appeared and I got excited, or if the story actually got better. Either way, I finished the book in one night. And, I’m glad I finally did, the novel kept getting better and better with every page. It does fill in the gap of the 2 years between Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children. Plenty of guest appearances throughout the whole book, but you probably expected that anyway.

08/16

The kids had their first soccer match today. And they were excited. People showing up late for work had me miss the first 10 minutes of the match, and that’s when my kids scored. Then the coach put my son in as a Goalkeeper, and I have to say he is a natural. He must get it from his dad. (Feeling Proud)

Got to teach him a couple more things, but on the other hand, he doesn’t want to be a Goalkeeper. My daughter? I haven’t seen her run so much. She did great, and I’m glad that she enjoys soccer.

Didn’t get much done today either.

08/17

Sunday, it was storming all night, and the Flea Market was pretty much empty. No use going.

We reached 200 subscribers on YouTube today. I’m thinking we’ll do a giveaway at 250. Maybe a Q&A as well, where you can all send in your questions, and I’ll answer them. We’ll figure something out.

Decided to go to Costco. Asked my wife if she wanted to come along. She replied, Costco? On a Sunday? I looked at her puzzled. Off I went, and I understood as soon as I tried to turn into the parking lot. It can’t be that bad, can it?
We got a cart and headed inside, and it was worse than Rush Hour Traffic trying to go through the Jane Byrne. Needless to say, we just turned around and left. I’m not going to stand in line for an hour to save a dollar on water. I will come back another day.

Played 99 Nights in the Forest with the kids, I must say that is a fun game. We played 2 games, and we got to day 5 I think. I’m still trying to get a hang of the controls, I’m no PC player and the controller doesn’t respond as much as I’d like when I connect it to my laptop. Might have to look into a way on how to change the button layout on a controller for Roblox.

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Kardboard Fantasy : Mystic Korner

07/07

Monday is usually spent working on writing and other aspects that don’t have much to do with cards. Unless we get a collection in, then we’ll be working on sorting that collection as fast as possible. Luckily for us, our whole week in review that we usually write was gone, and we had to re write it. It;s probably missing 50% of what we had in the original, but you got a great summary there.

We missed plenty of days with the holiday weekend, and now we’re back on our 30 day plan, it’s day 4 right now and our task is to “Optimize Page Load Speed – Caching & Plugins.”

That’s what we did, we fixed the Caching options, somehow figured out how to load pictures before they load. That doesn’t make sense to me but it was an option. Hopefully the website is a little faster right now.

Got an order on the website, and I’m missing one of the items. This is the first time this happened on KardboardKorner.com, there have been a couple of mistakes on TCG Player and eBay, but never on our own site. Sent the kind gentleman an e-mail, hopefully they’ll get back to me before the night is over.

07/08

Hit up the Robbins Flea Market today, after one of the Vendors told me that it’s poppin’ on Tuesdays and that I should get there real early. I thought I’ll give it a try and got there around 9AM. It would have been earlier, but my son did not want to wake up. He’s going to bed early tonight.

We got there, and it was, they even had vendors outside of the space, cause there was no space inside. We started making the rounds, and I noticed that we did come late. Lots of cool stuff, but nothing in particular for me, until I stumbled upon a box of Nintendo Switch Accessories. Docks and Controller Grips (I think that’s what they’re called). I picked them up and called it a day.

Spent the afternoon, Trying to organize the office once more. It seems like the more I try and organize, the messier it becomes. Maybe more space could do the trick, but we don’t have that right now.

07/09

Hit the Swap today and all I got was a big fat skunk.

Almost picked up a metal detector today. Thought about it, looked at it, passed it came back, but I left it there. Then I regretted it. If I find him tomorrow at Robbins, I’ll pick it up. Might have some fun with it, going on paths and just searching for precious metals.

30 day plan, Day 5 – Checked that the website works good on Mobile devices. Make sure that the links are clickable, same thing goes for the menu too. So far everything looks good. Didn’t have to complete much today, as it was already done.

Was testing out a bunch of Cassette Tapes today. I was using a Walkman for them. And, that Walkman is either going out, or the batteries I got went empty in about 15 minutes. That’s Dollar Tree batteries for you.

07/10

Robbins, that’s where we’re headed today. I went looking for the metal detector right away, and I’m guessing the guy sold it, because he didn’t have it. Went around the first time, and some guy had a bunch of Atari games, I didn’t have enough on me to pick them up today. And, it’s a good thing I didn’t cause I would have over paid for them.

Another Interesting thing I found was a Tiger Over Lap, the one with the whole front of the car. I left that there as well. Although it looks cool and all, I have a similar one, that is just sitting there collecting dust.

Next, I found a Marshall Full Stack. And, if I was still playing guitar, and in a band, I would have picked it right up.

Ended up just picking up a pair of On Clouds. These supposedly do well.

The kids always ask me to play Roblox with them, and tonight I managed to get all my orders ready pretty quick, so I jumped on without telling them. They got excited. We played for a couple of hours before I had to send them off to bed.

07/11

I just realized, we’re 3 weeks away from Gunslinger in the Abyss Prerelease. That means that Midnight Prerelease is right around the Korner! And I never got a restock for Tears of the Planet. Let’s hope this release goes a lot better.

Spent the day sorting, and restocking Opus VI on eBay and TCG Player.

Day 5 of the 30 day plan. And all it was was making sure that the website’s menus load up correctly on Mobile devices, and that the links are clickable. Checked and they were all goo to go.

I also grilled 20 pounds of chicken breast for some fajitas.

07/12

I woke up later than usual again.

Still have to get up, and go. No point in staying home. I got to the Swap and I thought to myself, I should have stayed home.
Not much there, and when I got to Robbins it was even worst.

Didn’t head out to 42nd and Ashland today, cause I had to take my wife to her sisters house to help with a party.

Went to the restaurant, left the restaurant, went to the party. That’s what all the chicken breast was for.

07/13

I drank too much in too short of a time. That was last night.

Got up, got ready headed to the restaurant. Was there all day. Hopefully, our other employee is coming back next week, and I’ll have more time to get back to what I’m supposed to be doing.

Got all the weekend orders ready to go. And, now it’s time to get back to it. Boots on the Ground.

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The Korner of Dragoon

06/16

Mondays are the hardest. Not really. It’s just hard to get much done on Mondays. Depending on the Monday as well, We’re mostly getting things set up for the week. Finishing this post for the Website, and scheduling the Card of the Day for Instagram and Facebook.

After that, it is time to figure out what we’re going to do this week. We’re going to start sorting the Basketball cards into team lots, and after that, we are going to start restocking FFTCG. Again. Because well as I mentioned, Organizing the office, is bringing out some surprises. Items I forgot we had. And, what do you do with all that stuff? You give the people what they want.

06/17

Sorted all those NBA cards into Teams, and there isn’t enough to make 100 card lots. Guess I’m going to have to find some more cards. Anyone selling? $10 per thousand. Surprisingly, there were barely any Chicago Bulls cards.

Took out the PS2 and Dirge of Cerberus. I had to try out all these PlayStation controllers and Memory Cards I had, and I figured what better way than play a very underrated game. My daughter saw it and she wanted to play, I told her she could, but we had to check to see if all the controllers work first. She played for 15 minutes and then got bored. If it ain’t Roblox, they don’t like it.

06/18

Wednesday, it was raining all night. It’s still wet outside. The way I see it there’s a 50/50 chance for the Swap in Alsip. I decided to go anyway. What’s the worst that could happen? I go and I come back with nothing.

As I rolled into the Swap-O-Rama, it wasn’t busy, but there were some Vendors there. And, it turned out that it was Free Admission today. Probably cause it was dead. That didn’t stop me though. Was it worth it? Yeah I would say so. Found a Memory Card for the PS2, a Macbook Pro, and a bunch of Michael Jordan Basketball cards. You can never go wrong with MJ cards. Also picked up a Soccer ball for the kids.

Spent the night getting back at organizing the office. We now have our photo station almost ready. There’s about 5 more shelves left to organize, and these will be the hardest. Best way I can think of is by getting rid of everything, but that would mean starting over.

06/19

I got up hoping that the rain stopped from last night, and then I thought if it didn’t stop I can sleep for a couple more hours. The rain did stop, and it took me a long time to wake the kids up. They sure didn’t want to get up today. Too bad. We have Garage Sales to go and find. Plus, we have to check if the Flea Market is open today. I doubt it will be because of all the rain, and it’s held in a lot that’s all dirt. That lot was all muddy and filled with puddles.

Found a couple of Garage Sales, but nothing worth buying.

Ended up starting a restock with all the FFTCG cards I found, we’re going to go through all of the Opus again. Starting with Opus I. They are all on TCG Player and eBay. I’m pretty sure that I have more Opus I cards somewhere, but can’t remember where I put them.

06/20

I think I’m going to have a bunch of empty binders soon. They’re all in great condition, I just won’t be using them cause they take up a lot more room than a 1000ct box. I’ll keep some binders ready to go for when I do shows, but other than that they take up too much space and that space is more valuable than the binders at the moment.

Going to start Opus II today. Plenty of Legends to be added.

I started watching the Club World Cup. Mostly for noise, I’ll look at the TV once in a while when I hear something going on.

06/21

          It’s hot outside. That doesn’t mean we’re staying inside. We still have work to do. Better to get out there early before things really heat up. It was pretty empty. Only half the vendors were at the Swap in Alsip. Still found something interesting. Ashton Drake Galleries Peanuts Perpetual Calendar Figurines. It’s a mouthful. I was on the fence about them. I passed by them a couple of times and finally looked them up. Saw the one that was there sold for 30 a while ago. I decided to grab it. Then the gentleman told me to get the one with the box. I looked and there were 10 figurines in total. I picked them all up.

Headed to Robbins, and that was dead as well. It’s too hot and everyone does not want to sit in the sun all day. I wouldn’t either.

Headed home early today, cause we had a birthday party to go to. Pick up a gift went home, and head to the party. The kids had fun, and I was sitting under an umbrella, but the wind picked up and launched that umbrella 15 ft into the air, out into the parking lot. Yep, I’m don’t with that, let me head over to a more open area.

Once we got back home I started looking more into these Perpetual Calendar Figurines. (I wouldn’t have picked them up, but I’m a sucker or Snoopy.) Some of these sold for a couple hundred. That’s all I needed to see. Got them all ready pictured up and ready to go on eBay. Not on the main shop, on our second one that’s for items that are not very Kardboard Kornerlike. I think I mentioned that one before. Not much is on it yet, but we’re slowly filling it up. Actually I hope it always stays pretty empty. That means we’re selling everything fast.

06/22

It’s still hot outside.

I finished up Opus II this morning, and got caught up on this weekends orders. After that my son got up, and I asked him jokingly if he wanted to go to the Flea Market, surprisingly he said yes. So, off we go. It was actually pretty busy, but just like yesterday, there weren’t that many vendors there.

Didn’t find much today. Just Megaman 11, and Def Jam Vendetta. Def Jam would have been a great pickup, but it did not want to work when I tested it. So, in the garbage it goes. No point in keeping it.

Opus III is up right now. Plenty of great cards, that were found in the vault. Legends, Heroes and King Tycoon!

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