Damaged Santa & a Pair of Trees

Hope all of you are enjoying yourselves on the merriest day of the year.  By the time you're reading this, I'll be hanging out over at my brother's eating fried rice for breakfast.  It's a family tradition started by my parents a long time ago.

Anyways... here's a card I purchased back in October:

1998 Upper Deck Holiday Worn Jersey #NNO

I've been looking for this card for a few years, but they never seem to fall within my price range.  Well due to the poor condition, I was able to win it in an eBay auction for $6.05 (+ $5.82 tax & shipping).

If you look closely above the Kris Kringle facsimile signature, there's a heavy crease which the seller pointed out in the auction description.  Truth be told... I was hoping the crease was the only issue.  But when I opened up the package, the card's corners, surface, and some of the edges are worn.

I knew the risk when I bid on the auction, so I can't complain.  On the bright side... the Island of Misfit Toys (also known as my Damaged Card PC) has a new family member.

I'll wrap up this very merry Christmas post with two card trees.  The first one is made up with this year's selection of gift cards from my students:

I'm hoping there are still some Topps Archives blasters available on Target's website.  If so, that's what I'll use that gift card on.  Otherwise... I'll use it on a Lego set.

Here's the other tree I made:

These are the thank you cards I hand out to students.  This photo was taken before I handed a few out... so inventory is quickly drying up.  Sadly Topps removed these custom cards from their online store.  Hopefully they bring them back soon... or these will be last autographed cards I pass out to my students.

Well that's a wrap.  Merry Christmas and sayonara!