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Goal's for 2023

• Organize my collection, I can not find anything and need this fixed. 
• Reach 700 unique Jason Pominville cards have 649 (updated 652)
• 100 PIF's (Updated 12)
• Increase my Ultimate Hockey Card Project to 6000+ unique cards. Have 5000 (Trying to acquire one card for every for every set, insert and related sets, minor, euro, team issue, oddball etc sets produced for Hockey including multi sport sets) (Updated 5268)
• Scan all the missing images in my collection
  • Football 5 images
  • Hockey 60 images
  • Multi-Sport 53 images
  • Non-Sport 377 images
  • Racing 2 images
  • Wrestling 1 image
• Organize PC to better enjoy my collection with Soft sleeves and top loaders
  • Avalanche PC
  • Bruins PC
  • Ultimate Hockey Card PC
  • PC Sets in card house
  • Organize my Sportscaster set 2184 cards in set, need 625. 

Go through my "many" bundles of random hockey cards, organize them (a daunting task) and add them to my sale/trade list.

Scan and upload any of my cards that do not have images.

Continue to PIF whether that be extras with trading partners or just random sends.

Try to be a little more active with me sending out trade proposals in order to get more insert cards for my PC (as the bulk of trades have mostly involved base cards). Been here almost 3 years and have not hit 100 trades yet. I'm about 20 or so away but I'm really in no rush ;) 

Add 100 Olajuwon Cameo cards to my collection!

Revisiting my 2022 goal:

I'm 20 cards away from completing every O-Pee-Chee hockey base set from 1970-71 through 1992-93. I guess tracking those down would be one goal.

It's been reduced from 20 to 6 (all 1972-73 Series 3).

I only met a couple of goals so far for 2022 so I am making modest goals for next year. 

I hope to get up to 10000 different Expo cards which may be tricky as that would mean around 1700 total for next year.

I hope to finish one more OPC baseball set ( I have three that could be done quite easily)

My main goal though is a modest one and it is to finish off two complete base sets of Expo cards, likely all base Score and Pinnacle cards. If I can do that every year, I see that as a reasonable way to move forward.

Adding one more Dec 29th...get two players over the "50% of all cards wanted" threshold. I have about six guys I'm looking at (I'm sure there are a few guys i only want three or four cards of...im looking more at people I want 100 or more of).

I also plan to spend less time on cards next year because I just hope to spend less time on screens next year. TCDB is to blame...among other time consuming sites.

I have a couple of goals this year.  Reach 500 000 different cards and finding someone willing to sell me sets on this site

Several goals for 2023 so far:

• Get to 200+ trades
• Complete at least one set 1980 or earlier
• Organize my 30K+ cards from the 1990s - primarily consolidate them by set and move duplicates to another location so that I can easily add them to my for-trade list

Ok, I thought of something that counts as a goal. Finish proofing my card collection excel charts. Since 1998 I've kept a paper listing of my collection and I've now listed all the cards or all the cards I can find into Excel. Now I'm going in and entering the dates I got the cards, if I wrote it down. I'm also figuring out which cards are missing and which ones I lost the scans to. 

It's a heck of a lot of work, and tedious, but the end result is enough to make it worth it. 

So far I've finished NASCAR and NHL, and I'm up to 1998-99 in NBA. I still have all of non-sports, WNBA, NCAA basketball and all baseball and football ahead of me. The latter two I do not keep on paper, only Excel, but I still have to transfer over from one file to the other and make sure none went missing. 

If there's one thing in the hobby I regret it's not keeping better date records. I love looking into my paper listing and seeing when I got the cards. But I have a tendency to lose focus and not record the dates, which I am disappointed by myself in doing. I don't know why the date I got the card matters so much to me, but it does, a lot. 

As of right now the only place I have the dates is in my paper listing for 2013 and earlier. In 2014 I started typing it into excel when I got each card. If something bad should happen like my paper listing gets wet, I would lose that info forever, and that would be so mentally devastating that it would probably force me out of the hobby again like when I lost my first Excel chart contributed to me leaving the NBA for years. So I'm working on backing it up, but it's time consuming and I don't work on it often. I started 1998-99 for the NBA three days ago, and haven't finished that one year yet, but the last time I worked on it before that was sometime in September I think.

In 2023 I am setting four goals for my collection, most very similar to past years...

1) Easy - Pick up just over 700 Different Red Sox cards to put my collection at 60,000 unique Red Sox cards.

2) Medium - Make 100 trades this year. Had 147 in 2022!

3) Medium to hard- Do more scanning and organizing of my PC and upload scans here. Currently have 47,221 of my Red Sox inventoried here. Have only 3,000 cards currently inventoried that are missing scans.
Let's set the goal at getting to 52,000 inventoried and get the cards missing scans down to only ones for trade.

4) Hard - Thin out the non PC cards I have accumulated over the years (Have to do much better on this goal this year!)

Scott

I have never set any goals when it comes to collecting, but after reading the thread I am going to set some for 2023.

• Finish the 2020-21 Upper Deck - UD canvas set (missing 3 cards)
• Reach over 800 Wayne Gretzky cards (currently sitting on 790)
• Add any missing images
• Get all my FS/FT listed

Now that I have set some goals, I am sure I will end up adding more. Good luck to everyone on their set goals for 2023