General Forum

I believe you're accomplishing the goal - which mine is always to enjoy the cards and not allow them to just become a mass of cardboard in my office.

Two of my tangential collections are:

1. Martinez Family Tree - includes PCs of Dennis, Pedro, Ramon, Tino, and Buck, plus at least the rookie card of others that didn't have as distinguished a career. I've yet to really include Victor and JD, not really sure why, but.
2. Alous - includes Felipe, Jesus, Matty, and Moises

Question about your Holy Trinity: Are you looking for just RC's of them or any card from their playing years?

My goal is to continue working on my Topps Tigers Team run.  I completed the 1961, 1962, and 1963 this year and got the wantlist down to 3 for the 1960 team set in 2019.  I also discovered a few odds and ends that I missed in the the mid to late 70's and would like to cross those off the wantlist as well.  Main goal is to stay focused on my wantlist and to try to ignore alot of the 2020 products.  

My goals for 2020 - I've got the little devilish angel atop my left shoulder telling me, "Go ahead. Make your list." and on my right the holy angel saying, "Don't do it. You know you can't keep them."

But here goes, anyway, in no specific order.

1. Send out a PIF (non-trade related) a month - fell off at mid-year in '19;
2. Work on 5 IRs a week
3. Build storage drawers/chest to sit atop my desk
4. Increase office displays
5. Label binders as was discussed on an earlier thread
6. Trade with at least one member a month with whom I've never traded with
7. Make mega-trade of 2K cards going both ways

There, that's enough for me to not meet. Come on 2020!

Here goes for 2020  

1.  Organization  Like most it is on top of the list.

2.  Get rid of my nephew's collection one way or another.  (wife's goal and I'm with her on that)   

3.  Try to be number 1 collector of Ahman green cards here.   Approx 50 cards short.

4. Hit 100 trades  at 87 but had a few more that was not recorded.

5.  Keep changing my focus on diff area so I do not get frusrated.    Autos to Mem to a few players that need a few cards to meet 100 card of them  and a few sets  (only my players) completed.   I can set numbers but just working on them is my goal.

6.  Reach 750 Auto and 300 Mem

Gonna try to break mine down with a month by month (soft) deadline:

End of January: complete the catalog of my PC

End of February: add all premium (auto, mem, etc) non PC cards to trade list

End of March: add all parallel non PC cards to trade list

End of April: add all insert non PC cards to trade list

End of May: add a monster box of base baseball cards to trade list

End of June: add a monster box of base football cards to trade list

End of July: add a monster box of base basketball cards to trade list

End of August:  add all hockey, other, and non sports base cards to trade list

End of September:  add a monster box of base (any sport) cards to trade list

End of October:  add a monster box of base (any sport) cards to trade list

End of November:  donate at least a monster box worth of cards (packaged smaller) to Nationwide Childrens Hospital here in Columbus

End of December:  Recap, plan for 2021

Trades throughout the year to add to my PC

Here are my goals for 2020:

1) Hope to get close to 2750 different Longoria cards. I'm currently at  2571 cards. (Years 2006 thru 2015) I'll probably branch out to include 2016 this year.

2) Also get a couple more cards for my side project. (1971 Topps Football graded PSA 8) I need 27 more for complete set.

3) Second side project: Need 2 more cards for 1977 Topps Buccaneers Team set in PSA 9 (Missing Carter and McKay) and need 1 more card for the 1979 set.  Already completed 1976 and 1978 team set.

I usually have the same goals, organize and sets. This time I will try for 150 trades, I'm at 121. Also try to get to 75 cards from the 2014 Topps Yellow parallel set. I'm at 40 so it's a fun challenge. Third, log my Ginter minis in finally. I've been wanting to work on those sets but can't decide whether to put them in a binder or make a small box for them. That should be enough for me!

I changed my mind, I AM going to have a goal for the year: Scan the cards I got for Christmas before next Christmas, with the possible exception of the Topps stickers.

I realized in December that I hadn't touched the cards I got for Christmas 2018 in months, and did a few batches worth, but still only did about half in total. 

I don't want that to happen again. I got 824 cards for Christmas so it's not really going to be something I can just snap my fingers and finish in the first week of January. It's going to take some effort. 

Why I'm thinking about leaving the Topps Stickers out of it...I like to put smaller cards in the bottom of each of the plastic cases I put cards in to make up a full "wave" before I type them into my Excel charts. Some of the cases are cut small and I've had cards get stuck in the bottom. The Topps stickers are the perfect size to put in the cases to prevent that. I had been using the Panini stickers but they are much thinner. The one box of 2019-20 Topps NHL stickers could, in theory, cover three to five waves...so I may end up saving them for that. 

Everything else though shouldn't take me all that long. I scanned over 1300 different cards in December (about 200 of which joined my collection at Christmas) so I might be able to finish before January ends, but, doing page after page of the same set can burn me out, so I will take a break when needed...don't want to get burned out again. 

My collecting goals are simply to keep working on the projects that I have started.  The main one being a 51-present run of the Detroit Tigers.  Thanks to this site, I have discovered a few more that I need.  My other collecting goal is to stop collecting so much new stuff.  I have complete Topps I, II, and Update, Topps Heritage, Topps Chrome,  Bowman, Bowman Chrome, and Bowman Draft the last 5 years or so.  I would rather focus my attention on vintage baseball and non-sport.