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I completed my 2021 goal on December 6th. We tackled the storage unit, and found enough to get me to the mark in one day, just like I said would happen...yet I didn't expect it to happen that quickly!

I have no card related goals for 2021 by design. I do have goals but they are in the scale modeling realm. I finished 35 1/24 scale models and will finish 25 1/64 models in 2020, my best year ever. My goal for 2021 is to build more than 25 1/64 cars next year. 

That was a huge part of my life, but I had to give it up in 2014 for health reasons. My last completion before this year was in December 2013, and that was just finishing up what I had in progress when I almost died in April of that year. Now, I've reclaimed my life and got back to my first passion. I feel like I'm myself again. As a plus, the work I'm doing now is better quality than what I was doing back then. 

I don't have a number goal to shoot for, like 40 or 50, I just want to do better than this year. If I can't reach 26 (a lot depends on the weather as I paint outside) I will instead focus on doing more 1/64 than 1/24. But I plan to do a lot of both.

Edited for clarity.

Billy Kingsley wrote:

My goal is to get my pack images to 1000 here on the Database. I'm currently at 931. It's not been progressing as much as it normally would because new stuff is just about impossible to find right now. 

I have enough in my storage unit that I could knock it out in a day, if only my storage unit wasn't such a horribly unsorted mess. I did bring some home to do back in August but I've been so busy and focused on my model cars that I haven't done anything with them other than move them back and forth around the model boxes. Now that it's too cold to work on models I should make some progress, but the box I brought home doesn't have enough in it to get me to 1000, even if they were all needing scans. Some are probably up here already, I have not checked yet. 

My goals are to

A) finish up getting all OPC Expo cards from the 80s and 90s... not a huge number left to go.

B) finish one OPC complete set. I finished '83 this year...only took 37 years! Quite a few are only a few cards away.

C) Reach 5% of all Vlad Guerrero cards, 15% of all Gary Carter cards, 25% of all Tim Raines cards.

My 2021 goals are pretty close to last years

1) To finish going thru our collection and get all numbers right while adding the other cards I have picked up this year. " If I stopped buying than it would be done quicker. But in my head the more I buy, The more I have to trade " Only Hockey, Baseball, Gaming and football to go after I finish Non-Sport

2) finish transferring all sets that have 75% or more to binders

3) Continue to help and educate J.R. with the ins and outs of collecting plus how to and not to store cards. Etc

4) hope to get my Younger son A.J. in to collecting as well

5) Finish trading with all !0 Provinces and 3 Territories in Canada, With all 50 states, and as other countries in the world as I can - Right now I am at 7 Provinces, 1 Territory, 31 States and 7 different Countries. 

Get to 1000 cards in the Olajuwon PC - should be easy as only 100 short and have 41 of those in a Sportlots box currently.

Get one of his signature '90s cards, ideally an Autographics or one of the earlier autos, would also settle for one of the big '90s inserts - will be harder as I do not really use EBay and refuse to pay current COMC prices.

1.  Hit 10,000 diff Nebraska Cornhusker football cards.  Total count here is not my true count

2.  Get sets and checklist here so I can add more of the cards I have that do not have sets or check list here. (approx 110 but some may not be allowed here)

My goals are as follows:

1-Get my collection organized.  I am in the process, but to fully organize it will take a long time.

2-Complete my 1979 & 1980 Topps sets

3-Complete my 1977 Topps sets.

4-Find a good bargain haul at a garage sale/flea market.

My goals for 2021:

1. Reach 500 transactions. I love to trade.

2. Continue to add Johnny Bench items to PC.

3. Complete my 1969 Topps set. Only need the Mantle & Nolan Ryan cards so will be expensive!

4. Get my completed 1971 & 1974 Topps sets in pages and binders.

5. Complete 1976 Kellogg's set. Need 3 cards to complete  and 12 for master set.

6. Complete sets that are close: 2018 Topps A&G, 2019 Donruss and 1991 Leaf.

7. Accumulate 50's & 60's non-sports cards as this is a new interest.

I actually got one of my 2020 goals knocked out, I got 150 trades finished. My new goals for 2021 will be getting 200 trades finished. Second, I'll continue working on my 2014 Topps Yellow parallel set. Third, I'll slowly work on adding more cards to my collection. I'm limited on space so it's aggravating when I have thousands around me and not enough space to work with. 

We're moving in to our new house in March so that changes the game for me and my collection. I'll be back to having a basement again to store my cards in..

That being said..

1) Paring my current FS/Trade list down to less than 10K

2) Taking a break from trading around moving time

3) Starting to rebuild sets I sold a few years back..Mainly 1980's/1990's Topps Football and Baseball (see my recent post!)

4) Expanding my collecting horizons to include Baseball and Football

5) Starting to buy new products more often..

6) Organizing my collection better once we get moved and enjoying what I have!

Stay safe and warm my friends!

Bill

1.  Stop buying overpriced wax....

2. Focus on my Detroit Tigers collection.  Mainly vintage.  Still need. "51-59 to complete my Topps run.