Goals this year will be related to collecting focus.
1. I've already changed my focus to only build Topps Heritage sets...moving away from Flagship and Chrome.
2. Liquidate as much of the remaining 7500 cards on my FST list through trades for Topps Heritage cards, even by taking in Heritage cards I don't need. I've made great progress in the last couple of months as that number is down from just under 11,000 cards.
3. Evaluate my current collection. I'm not sure I want to keep all these complete sets for multiple reasons...I am finding that I don't want as much stuff in life, and I also fear bricking may set on some sets left alone for too long.
4. Expanding Topps Heritage collecting to include Heritage Chrome Purple, Blue Sparkle and Clubhouse Collection Relics. (Was only working on Heritage base sets with SPs and subset cards...but want to expand as it's getting harder to acquire cards for base sets since most are SPs.
5. Travel to more of the larger card shows. I am going to try this in Dallas in a couple of weeks and while there I hope to find some items I can purchase and flip to help offset some of the expense of traveling to the shows. I have no intentions of setting up as a dealer at shows or doing this for profit, but reducing the overall cost would be good.