I feel ya. I was 13 when I got my first job. I worked weekends at Wild Bills Card shop in Crofton Md. I got paid a wax box of non upper deck cards. I always picked Topps. After work I would spend the night at either my friend Jamie or Kevins house and trade what I had picked up that day for Ripken cards. My friend Jamie was a yankees fan so we would trade Ripken for Sax straight up. It was an honest shop owned by two brothers, Tom and Bill. I still remember trading someone a 1990 Score Bill Speirs error card for 2 1982 topps traded Ripken rookies lol. We used to go to the Ben Franklin crafts store because they had 1990 donruss "error packs". That was the year Donruss filled their entire run with errors. Seems to me like they were trying to cash in on the 89 FF Ripken card, but at the time it was great to pull all those all star errors and the Juan Gonzalez reversed negative. Its kind of funny, when I was 13 I could afford a wax box, now I am 38 and I cant lol.
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