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This week I fell below 14,000.Dupes  This was done  threw  Trade  and Trade+PIF   and some strait out PIF's 

Thanks to all that helped me in rhis

My 2019 Goal is to complete at least two complete year sets of Yankees. 

Haven't figured out which I will start with yet. But I have a couple of months to finish it off. 

1984 Topps seems like a good place to start.

2019 (almost) final update...

1) Pick up 2,399 Different Red Sox cards to put my collection at 50,000 uniques Red Sox cards. Done!
will be done 49,972 - 441 incoming

2) Thin out the non PC cards I have accumulated over the years (Have to do much better on this goal this year!) FAILED!
not so good

3) Do more scanning and organizing of my PC.and upload scans here. Currently have 13,794 of my Red Sox inventoried here. Let's set the goal at getting 20,000 scanned and inventoried here. Done!
have added a total of 20,174 scans here!

Scott

I set may sights low for 2019.  As things looked like I would not be doing that much buying or trading.  A lot of little things going on.

1.  Reached 9,300  plus

2.  1004 total but 996 shows here   

3.  This was my main focus and got 10 of them and close on a few more.

4.  This year I have sent out cards every month except Nov but send out a lot of Christmas cards to make up for Nov.  Sure hope everyone received them.

I was hoping for a few more trades (95 to 100) this year but has hit 87 listed here    

Even though I didn't do nearly as much with cards as usual during 2019, I did make progress at times during the year. The 2 main goals in my head for 2019 dealt with the auction haul from October 2018. The first was to sell enough to pay my Mom back for the money she spent at that auction (did that in February and then some extra for me on top of that). The second was to get all those cards catalogued here (kinda completed that one - I haven't added EVERY hand-collated set that was in there, but everything else is listed here). I also got at least half of those cards merged into my existing collection.

Since I didn't make any other actual goals, I looked back at my 2018 goals to see how I progressed on those.

#1 - My Jimmie Johnson collection: Still haven't hit 20 AU's yet, but added 3 more to get to 18. Moved the total cards in my JJ collection up to 1478. Definitely expecting to pass 1500 cards in 2020.

ALSO, my Mark Martin collection is very close to 900 cards now (up about 250). I doubt I hit 1000 in 2020 unless I don't clear out any more duplicates (96 of them).

#2 - Scans needed on TCDB: All sports currently clear - except NFL, which is down to less than 250 cards now.

#3 - Carolina Panthers - Total collection is around 2250 now (only added about 150 new ones this year).

#4 - STL Cardinals (MLB): Don't have an exact count right now, but it's somewhere over 6400 (increase of 800 or so).

#5 - NHL cards: ALL cards were added to TCDB and a few hundred traded or sold. I wasn't expecting that, but I only have a couple thousand hockey cards. That made it pretty easy when I focused on it.

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Considering that I wasn't trading for about 7 of the last 12 months OR buying cards (boxes or singles) pretty much all year, that's pretty good progress.

I WILL set some 2020 goals though.

#1 - Get back to trading and buying cards.

#2 - Get ALL missing scans of my NFL cards added here.

#3 - Get the rest of my NBA cards added (and scanned if needed).

#4 - Hit 100 trades and feedback.

#5 - Get to 60K points on the site (just for the heck of it at this point - just passed 56K this month).

This is how I did on the goals I listed back in 2018:

Goals for 2018:

1. Clean the cards off my desk. It's a mound that has been driving my wife crazy. For that matter, the whole office is over run.

I got close on this, but now it is actually a lot worse. If I can get this done by the end of the year, I can probably count it as a Christmas gift for my wife. I will try to include before/after shots.

2. Complete 1968 Topps, less than 20 cards to go.

I believe I finished this, but now can’t find the rest of the set to add the cards I bought for it (see goal #1). For the 2020 goals I should list find my 1968 set.

3. Complete another Topps Opening Day master set - 2007 or 2008 are the most likely.

Completed this one: the 2008 set. Still need two autos for 2007 – Fruto and Morillo.

4. Cut the cards I need for 1960 Topps in half (currently need 56).

Nowhere close.

5. Complete 25 trades this year on TCDB.

I completed 23 total in 2018-2019. I would like to apologize to those of you who have offered trades and I have been unable to complete them, primarily because I have a hard time finding the cards (see goal 1). I do a better job trading in the summer for a number of reasons, including having more time (I coach and tutor during the school year), and having less funds to buy cards (my card money comes from the coaching and tutoring I do during the school year). This will be one of my top goals for 2020, to be a better trader.

6. Complete 2016 Opening Day Purple parallel set (need 8 more)

I’m close on this one, I only need two more: 31 Gordon and 68 de Grom. But I did complete the 2017 Opening Day Purple, which I needed more cards for at the time I listed the goal (which is why I didn’t list it), so that was a success.

2019 Football Card Goals

Goal:  A card of every Heisman Trophy winner since I was born.  

Status:  I got them all then went a few years farther back, so I have them all starting with Plunkett. 

Goal:  The elite special teamers.

Status:  26 special teamers have been named to an NFL alll-decade team from the 1970's onward, the 75th anniversary team, or the 100th anniversary team. I have 17 of them. 

Goal: The Holy Trinity

Status:  I got a Unitas.  I still need a Starr and a Namath. 

Goal:  Multi-sport stars.

Status: I have Deion Sanders, Brian Jordan, Bo Jackson, Wilie Gault, Renaldo Nehemiah, Herschel Walker, and Ron Brown.  I need a Bob Hayes.