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My goals for 2018 will be likely tied to building my Johnny Damon and Greg Maddux PC's.  I might also work on building on my Mike Alstott and Brett Favre PC's too.  Its not really a goal to work on my Royals collection since that's always a goal.  I will also try to work a bit more on Non-Sports cards and sets next year too.

Lastly, I hope to contribute more to the site next year.  I've started to post more on the forums, but once my collection is up to date I hope to add more scans, and work on other Things to Do.  Anything to help the site.

Did I post on here yet? I don`t remember LOL. My goals are to keep amassing Billys, Oiler RCs and lots of OPC hockey. Also, to stay alive, head above water and stay madly in love with my wife, life and hobby. =D

- Finsh my 1966 Topps baseball set.  (Missing 1 6th series card and 25 7th series cards.)

- Get at least 200 cards in each the 1962, 1963 and 1964 Topps baseball sets.

- Complete at least one trade a month.

- Reach 15,000 (different) cards in my Royals collection. 

- Finish entering all of my collection into the site.

- Become better organized.  (Not likely to happen.)

.....Oh, and I'd like to stay in the top 200 of baseball card collections here, but since I don't collect parallels and minis and anything other than Topps and Topps GQ, that's unlikely. I gain about 1400 per year....

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Finish my 71 Topps set and work some more towards my 58 Topps set.

Keep my son interested in sports cards and memorabilia.

Welcome to the site bgm838, always glad to see a new member make themselves shown. Good luck with your collecting goals, and most of all your son's interest, that is key. My 7yo helped me open some old Ultra packs yesterday and LOVED it.

Always looking to add autos of Montreal Canadiens Hockey Hall of Famers that I don't have yet, getting into the nitty gritty though so getting tougher. Down to 5 players with live (non-cut sigs/Lumbergraphs) autos. Need Ken Dryden, Tony Esposito, Tom Johnson, Bert Olmstead, and Mark Recchi, all in Habs uniforms and preferabbly hard signed

I have a fun little plan in my head for current Cardinals and Pacers.  I might do a list to track my progress.  Sports Commish kind of gave me the idea, but it's different.  Over 2018, I want to add to my collection of the roughly 57 players/MGR/Coach of those two teams, by getting a card older than my oldest (if possible), one scarcer than my scarcest serial number, as well as a MEM and an AUTO of each that I don't have one of.  In some cases, I could hit several goals with one card.  And a lot of the guys, especially Pacers with no minor leagues, I already have their oldest card, so those are already complete.  I've been planning this in my head for a couple days now.  I think I needed to make a game out of it to keep myself interested!

sorry for the long winded post, but here is my recap for last year and goals for next year:

Goals set for 2017/completion status:

Reduce 61T baseball set from 40 to 30..those high numbers sure are expensive
    - did not meet- actually went backwards with major gremlin event in mid series

Get 69 baseball set down to 5 or less major stars
    - goal met, set completed, thanks to all who helped!

Finish two 70s baseball second sets (74 and 75 underway)
    - goal met, thanks to all who helped!

Finish two 70s football sets (77 and 78 underway)
    - almost...last 77 in transit, and 10 to go on 78

help other folks collections along the way

Goals for 2018:

recover lost 61 cards, about 30 to go

finish 76 baseball second set

work 71 baseball second set from 64% complete to 80% complete

start an 70s sspc baseball set (have starter set in hand to begin)

finish 78 football set

main goal for 2018 is kind of general- move 5-10 vintage sets from boxes to binders,
    upgrading and helping others upgrade along the way

uv- continue to tinker in cardinals team sets and adding new redskins to team collections without spending 
    much money in these categories.

tcdb

         - make 20 trades

        - finish entering redskins collection (enterd 2017 back to 93 so far), next decades should go much quicker with fewer sets

        - finish entering baseball extras that are not already in spreadsheets

        - start but not finish entering cardinals baseball extras and redskins football extras on new user id here

help other folks collections along the way

thanks for reading...mark zentkovich

Trying to keep my 2018 collecting goals fairly simple:

-Patience 

  How many times have I overspent on an item(s) because I just *had* to have it upon release. If I would just exercise patience, I can save a lot of money over the course of the year. Unless a specific item is a low serial-numbered card, odds are it will still be around later in the future.

- On going organization of the collection

  Finish cataloging my cards, finish creating my wantlists etc.

- Spend less money on the hobby and do more trading

  TCDB has been a godsend as far as trading goes. Most of the trading I've done over the past few years has been through the blog- much of which has been "blind" trading, resulting in too much stuff that I don't want to keep. My goal for trading is to complete 2 per month.

- Downsize

  I don't have a ton of cards to get rid of, but I do have more than I wish to keep. Hopefully I can do this through trades, but if not, I might send stuff in to COMC and go back to listing on eBay.  Might also send some stuff off to Cards 4 Kids. 

  Also under this goal is streamlining my PCs. The myth of 'Super Collector' has crept into my thinking, causing me to think that I have to have as many cards as possible of the players I collect. But let's be honest: there are a lot of garbage products out there and is my collection really enhanced by junk I don't like? Why not spend the time and money on getting the cards I like? I've already done this on the team set level (sticking only with Mariners Topps flagship sets).