General Forum

I heavily joined the site in May/June even though my profile says other wise. My goal for this last year was get my sets organized together, but after an acquisition in may that was 50,000 or so cards my goal change. I wanted to then get football organized, then basketball, then baseball. I am almost done with football, yay! 

This next year my goal is to finish both basketball and baseball organized and uploaded to TCDB. After I want to start scanning my cards into the database and at the same time start trading. While doing the last two things. I want to then start and be more active with blog and YouTube.

The last four thing may not happen but that is why we have goals right? To improve what we want to do.

I actually have ZERO goals for 2022 right now! I want my Jimmie Johnson collection to pass 1700 total cards, but that might happen before the year ends. Otherwise, I have no goals to set. I just keep moving forward all the time with the PC's. A lot of things got thrown at me in 2020 and 2021 that had nothing to do with cards and some more stuff did get thrown at me about cards. I just keep on keeping on. 

Hoping to finish up a couple 2021 goals in the coming week, but one carryover from 2021 goals is to acquire a Matt Kenseth card for every season (still missing 1992). Additional goals are to get to 250 different Kenseth Autograph cards (currently 32 away), 30 1/1's (currently 6 away, but 1 is en route), and 50% completion (currently at 45.3%). Also hoping to get all cards sorted to the extent of finding them quickly and easily. Another goal not pertaining to this site is to complete my Matt Kenseth Card Collection website (in progress since August) and get it published.

That last one better not be true...

Restraining order?

My main goal is to get to 5,000 unique Houston Astros cards (currently at 3,875), mainly through trades on TCDB. 

Through lessons learned I cut back on goals. My 2021 goals were pass 200 trades which I succeeded and add more 2014 Topps Yellow to my set which I didn't make it. So with 2022, here's my goals.

1. Complete 250 trades. Should be doable. 

2. Continue working on my 2014 Topps Yellow parallel set, 100 would be great!

3. New goal, 25 pif 

4. Work on new pc's of Bagwell, Biggio, Maddux, Altuve, Edgar Martinez. Easy goal: at least 50 of each player. 

5. Get to at least 85% completion on 5 sets regardless of which genre, hoping to complete at least one! 

I'll try and hit the ground running early next year to knock out a couple of them, doing that will help me organize and continue to get more cards on my trade list! Thanks to everyone who traded with me to help me out!

Huh. It IS that time, isn't it? I don't even think I posted if there was a 2021 goals thread, even though I always post in this thread. Let's see, ok, here are my goals, with the likelihood of completion in parentheses. 

1. Complete 2022 Topps baseball (certain)

2. Complete 2022 Topps Gypsy Queen, minus short prints (certain)

3. Complete 1968 Topps set (shaky, unless the Ryan rookie gets back down to more reasonable rates)

4. Complete set of first black player on every team (shaky, because even a 1955 Robinson might be prohibitively expensive for now, but I'll get all the others I'm missing)

5. Complete the display case for first black players on every team (near certain; it's almost done)

6. Expand display case for Last Topps Card of Every Hall of Famer with a Base Topps Card (near certain; gotta buy a board, do some chiselling, staining, and screwing)

7. Get a 1941 Goudey Cub (probable)

8. Get another Merkle I don't have (probable)

9. Get an MP& Co. 1943 Lou Novikoff (50/50; they're rare, but not that expensive; just need the right one)

10. Get a Hans Lobert tobacco card (50/50; he raced a horse around the bases!)

11. Get a George McBride t205 (50/50; it's beautiful and he's got the lowest batting average of anyone with enough AB to matter)

12. Get the Cubs to the #1 spot in the team collection stat (unlikely; damn Yankees)

13. Have fun (certain)

Happy collecting!

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2022 goals are simple - 

1. Finish cataloging the collection.
2. Complete the 1989 Topps baseball set.
3. Try to complete the 2004 Fleer Hot Prospects set.
4. Watch my niece graduate high school and head off to college!

Finish the 1982 and 1983 DK subsets.

Get my MLB team pages to a respectable level.  

Finish my basketball frankenset.

Find someplace, other than the recycling bin, to dump my commons. 

Take the trolley out to Santee to see if the shop there is better than the one near me.