That's pretty much how it went. Just got what I could and what I could trade for. Moved from a rural area to a more urban one in late 77, and 78 was a pretty crazy hobby year for me.
card shop in town so I get into old cards.
Topps- all four sports
Chillee Willee discs at a local white hen pantry
Papa Ginos Discs
Hostess
RC Cola Baseball AND Football cans. (And basketball, but I never found one in the stores, although I did get one I found in the street near my grandmothers house)
Fleer baseball stickers
Fleer Football
Wiffle ball discs.
I think there were others available locally maybe some ice cream football stickers? NASL stickers? Drakes Superman?
So many sets all at once.
Got pretty close to the RC can set, maybe 80/100, all 40 of the Papa Ginos thanks to a waitress who handled a request to swap the duplicate I got late in the promotion by bringing an entire bucket of the discs to out table and telling us to take what we wanted, and maybe 35/70 chillee Willee discs. The other stuff was somewhat controlled by mom refusing to buy way more snack cakes or cereal than we needed.
Good thing I was young and had the typical runaway metabolism of a teenager or I'd have been 300+ by the end of the year.
Steve B