General Forum

1. Need to organize/verify sets for completeness. Recently discovered nearly every set I thought was complete was missing at least one card. 
2. Wrap up sets close to completion which will mean buying the valuable RC's no one wants to trade. Just bought the 1979 Ozzie Smith RC as an example. 
3. Moving most of my hockey FS/Trade cards back to my main collection. I've decided to work on completing more hockey sets and less trading (number 4 below)
4. Less trading and more buying. The trading landscape has changed so much recently, it's easier just to buy the cards I need most of the time. 
5. The Bedard RC hunt. 
6. Deciding where I want to go moving forward with the hobby. I enjoy collecting/trading but due to the time/money commitment, very hard to keep doing it long term at the pace I've been going at. 

Working on some milestones in my PC.....

1) Mark Martin - working toward 2000

2) Greg Maddux - working toward 1000

3) Cal Ripken Jr - working toward 500

Otherwise, keep up with trades and keep hoping to knock off some nearly completed sets (mostly NASCAR) that I've been working on.....

Still need to move my card boxes from bins to shelves.  I think that was my same goal last year.  I think what is stopping me is I need to organize what’s on the shelves currently to somewhere else and I haven’t been motivated to do that.  This is also something that probably would take all of an hour yet here I am.  This year has just flown by in general it seems.  
 

I think I’d like to focus on getting more cards from some of my favorite sets.  I’d also like to be more present on the TCDB as I have been in years past.  I’m here pretty much every day but I don’t interact as much as I used to and as much as I’d like to. 

I have really enjoyed the focus of setting goals the last couple of years and even though some have not been met, it has been good to have some focus for me. Its always cool to add a card, but its even more to add a card intentionally (for me). Most of my trades that I initiate are based on some of my goals from last year. I'm not sure if I'm 100% on what my goals are for next year but here are a few:

1) finish off two more OPC base sets and two OPC insert sets

2) get at least two more players over 50% of all wanted cards.

3) Finish off all base Expo cards for Stadium Club, Donruss, Collector's Choice, Leaf and SP (only a total of about 70 cards)

I have some other goals too but most of those are minutia involving percentages and stats that no one else will care about but me :)

I have some organization stuff to deal with too, both in terms of keeping track of things digitially, but also physically moving cards around so that there is less confusion of my traders.

My goals for 2024 are the following:

Complete one of my '69-'72 Topps Baseball sets. I'm over 95% complete on each of them.

Complete at least one Hostess set. I'm over 95% complete on 3 of them.

Complete at least one Kellogg's set.  I'm very close on 3 of them.

Hit 80% complete on some of my Sixties baseball sets.  I know I'll never complete them, but I'll be happy with just getting close!

Finally, I would like to hit 500 trades. 

Good luck to all of my fellow collectors in 2024.  Even if you don't meet your goals, I hope this wonderful hobby continues to bring you joy!  -David

Advance on my 1971 OPC baseball

Get to 600k different cards

• Visit more card shops
• Attend a few card shows
• Organize my collection
• Document my collection
• Scan more cards
• Make some trades
• Focus on quality over quantity
• Avoid the hype
• Manage my time well with the hobby and not let distractions pull me away from the above goals

I'm not really setting any goals.   Throughout the year I will focus on some areas but no real goals.

Over the years my goals have been the same:  Add more cards, Organize my cards, Clean-up my Excel files, Verify my cards here and get rid of my extras.    I work on them, but each year have to do it again.  

The only things that would be on my Wish List before I quit collecting is:   50 Autographs so I would have 1,000 total and 35 more Mem cards so I would have reached 450 of them.

The only real thing I want to get done this year is to get as many cards out to members that need them for their PC as I can.   Trades/Sales/PIF.    If you have a one and done card(s) and I have it just LMK something will be worked out.  

So!!!   my goal is to help others out with their goals.   

1. Get the rest of my 2013 rookie, prospects and draft cards i decided to cull out of my collection 

2. do the same for 2014

3 get my 2015-2023 rookie, prospects and draft cards organized

4 hit 850 trades (that would be 100 trades)

5. Move 500 football cards for baseball. (This will still leave me about 8,000 cards to trade for i still have more to enter.  Just got to trade the ones i have listed to make room for the others

I want to complete my Billy Ripken "error" card set.  I still need the white box and white-out scribble variants.

If you've got either of those, let's talk.  Maybe we can work out a trade.