{"id":48748,"date":"2022-05-01T21:09:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48748"},"modified":"2022-05-03T21:10:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:10:02","slug":"completing-the-blet-wall-time-to-get-a-new-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48748","title":{"rendered":"Completing the blet wall: time to get a new house"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What we have here, are the newest additions to my collection: blet #24 \u2013 the 2014 PG-era WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and #25 \u2013 the John Cena Spinner US Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

As has been the case with the last nine blets I\u2019ve purchased, these have been primarily financed by money earned through doing online surveys.\u00a0 Which is great in the sense that I haven\u2019t used any of my earned income in order to purchase such frivolities, but when I write out that I\u2019ve basically bought 11 blets, I\u2019m trying not to add up the dollar amount and not wince at what maybe a little more productive or substantiative things I might\u2019ve been able to have done with such a slice of coin but whatever no regrets<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is with #24, I never really thought about getting another WWE World Championship blet, since I had the Attitude-era winged eagle blet, but whether it\u2019s just random blet itch scratching, or when I was happy when Big E won the championship, the idea of getting one didn\u2019t seem that unappealing.\u00a0 That\u2019s sometimes all it really takes for me to want to get a blet; acceptance of a current holder, a good deal, or just plain wanting a new blet for the sake of getting a new one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, I was sitting on a small cache of Amazon gift card and gift card codes, and instead of putting myself through the rigors of I don\u2019t know what to spend this onnnnn<\/em>, once I learned that WWE actually sells some things through Amazon, including blets, and makes them subject to Prime benefits, I knew what I would be saving up towards, instead of bullshit consumables like soaps and socks.\u00a0 So once I hit the price threshold for a 2014 WWE World, I pulled the trigger and here we are.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bigger story though, would be the John Cena US Spinner that I had long been waiting out.\u00a0 For years, friends would \u201ctroll\u201d me and tell me that my collection would never be complete if I didn\u2019t have this blet, and truth be it, when it was actually on TV way back when, I wasn\u2019t a fan of it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think it was cool for John Cena to be above everyone else and have his own edition of the historic United States championship, and I was up on a purist high-horse scoffing down on a spinner blet in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ironically, it was the work he did in like 2015 when he was the US champion, using the old traditional blet, that really made me a fan of his work, and in spite of the blet he was carrying, made me basically be okay with both versions of it, as indicative at the fact that I have both of them now.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when the WWEShop re-relealsed the US Spinner in the past year, I knew that it was finally time to have one, as I wasn\u2019t about to pay upwards of $600+ for an original Figures Toy Company replica back from 2012.\u00a0 The thing is that I had to wait out the price, because I really wasn\u2019t interested in paying the full $449 retail value of the blet, when I knew that there would eventual discounts to come into play.<\/span><\/p>\n

Funny thing is that along the way, some of the snaps on some of my prior blets started breaking off.\u00a0 Shitty Pakistani construction most likely.\u00a0 Regardless, I thought that I could use this to my advantage if flagged, and I took a bunch of pictures and documented them to the WWEShop\u2019s customer service.\u00a0 Now in the past, I\u2019ve always dealt with some fairly mediocre customer service, but I had to at least try.\u00a0 Amazingly, with enough chats with supervisors, I was able to get them to acquiesce to giving me a $50 reimbursement off of a future order, which was pretty much all I was hoping for, so I just had to wait for a sale to stack them on top of in order to get maximum savings and bang for my buck.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, there was the random sell-out from a few weeks ago that made my blood boil over, but I had to have faith that they\u2019d eventually return.\u00a0 And for a day, they did return, as if all the prior orders\u2019 payments processed, and there were some bounces, and there were suddenly some stock available.\u00a0 But customer service squandered my chance, and I was left in the cold once again, feeling deflated.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in an amazing, good things come to those who wait moment, the blets came back into stock, and happened to do so at a point where the sale price dropped to its lowest ever, at $337.\u00a0 So, factoring in my additional $50 of house money, I was looking at a very reasonable cost for one of the blets I\u2019ve wanted for a long time, which brings us to present time.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all the time I\u2019ve been collecting blets, I have the John Cena US Spinner that I went from disliking, to liking, to wanting, and now having.\u00a0 This is where I could say that my collection is complete, but I\u2019m pretty sure anyone reading this knows that that\u2019s probably not going to be true in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time I get blets #24 and #25 up onto the wall, I have quite literally reached maximum capacity.\u00a0 I almost said it was mathematically impossible to add any more blets to the wall, but I also don\u2019t want my collection literally be butted up against each other, and I like having a little bit of a margin in between the straps, so maybe I could add another blet, maybe two, but then I\u2019d be at a point I don\u2019t want to be. \u00a0I\u2019m down to 0.75\u201d in between blets at this point, and as I\u2019ve digitally mocked up the wall, I\u2019m really at the point where the wall is basically completely full at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Looks like I should consider upgrading homes in order to have bigger walls in order to put my blet collection on.\u00a0 Seems like as good of reason as any there could be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What we have here, are the newest additions to my collection: blet #24 \u2013 the 2014 PG-era WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and #25 \u2013 the John Cena Spinner US Championship. As has been the case with the last nine blets I\u2019ve purchased, these have been primarily financed by money earned through doing online surveys.\u00a0 Which … Continue reading Completing the blet wall: time to get a new house<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,79,76,121,54,55],"class_list":["post-48748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-cashmoney","tag-geeks","tag-homeownership","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48750,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48748\/revisions\/48750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}