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Cardboard America

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Live from the Midway in the Twin Cities Posting since 2008. Collector of way too much but never enough.

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 8d

That is perfection.

Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 10d

Melrose Place Prepaid Phone Card ($10)
worth 20 minutes of domestic phone calls

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 11d

60(!) free minutes from Nicorette (expires 7/31/97)

Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 11d

Here's 5 minutes on us - Courtyard by Marriott (expires 12/31/96)

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 11d

Stay in Touch with Glade - 10 free minutes

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 11d

5 Minutes of Free Telephone Time from Lipton Recipe Secrets

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 11d

I haven't shared enough of my phone cards from the late 90s:

20 Minutes free long distance from Ore-Ida (expires 10/19/1999)

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 11d

You got this. Sore arm. Fan Fic. Can't Lose.

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 12d

Today is the 17th (!) anniversary of the first time I started posting my collection online.

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 26d

Last week I bought more than a dozen late '90s/early 00s software programs, all of them in their original boxes. Many of them unopened.

Here's the first one I bought for 10 cents

ClickArt 125,000 deluxe image pak from 1999 (unopened) with a CompUSA sticker.

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 27d

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · 27d

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Aug 19

I have taken a break from scanning matchcovers to get back to one of my smaller collections - playing card (swap card) art.

I recently purchased about 150 new cards and now I currently have over 1500 scanned.

Here of some of the new ones:

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Aug 7

Sometimes I feel like some idiot Nero scanning while modern Rome burns, but then I remember that I can't control the horrors, but I can scan a 2001 AOL 7.0 disc that was created exclusively for JCPenney associates.

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's not just matchcovers I have been scanning. I am now at 1424 swap cards (playing card art).

Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Aug 7

Closing in on 25,000 scanned and cataloged.

Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Jul 5

I'm going to guess 1983, but I might be wrong.

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Jul 5

I have no idea when or where I bought this (and 3 other) McDonald's Happy Meal boxes.

Can somebody tell me the year? It's definitely from the '80s, I just can't find the date.

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Jul 2

Another crazy detail is that I scanned and cataloged over 29,000 postcards from my collection before I started this project

Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Jul 2

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode no SW, ST, or LOTR)

Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Jun 27

I might be the only idiot to ever attempt to scan and catalog their entire 90,000+ matchcover collection front and back.

I both regret and don't regret ever starting.

I am way closer to staring than done, and I can't stop now at 20,000+. It may kill me but I hope to make it worthwhile someday.

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Cardboard America @cardboardamerica.bsky.social · Jun 27

View from the Prudential Building, 1958 - Chicago, Illinois