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Couldn't you scan your paper copies in case the paper gets damaged ?

2023 Goals
1) Sort and add the last of my cards to TCDB - 5k Topps, 5K Fleer, 15K Donruss
2) Lower my cards-for-trade by 15k and out do 2022
...........2022 - Cards Sent - 22,671 / Cards Received - 9,364 / Net Chg - 13,307
3) Build the last custom shelf for my cards

I'll be less active in the buying arena in 2023 as I focus more on travel with my son before he graduates. But on the flip side, as soon as I get this SportLots box shipment put away I'll be opening trading again. I do have several goals though

1) Finish my 70s sets (70 - 2, 71 - 3, 72 - 1 VAR, 73 - 4 and 8 VARs); reduce W/L size on my 60s by at least 10% on each

2) Kill off as many 80/90s inserts sets as I can 

3) Finish as many sets missing SPs that I can. Though 00 Score and UD FB may be trouble still...

4) Finish sorting out my disorganized PC box and reconcile with the DB

With changing work circumstances card trading/buying has become a little more complicated for me in the last year I will aim for slightly less ambitious goals for 2023.

* Get to 1600 unique Olajuwon cards — currently somewhere in the 1490s. This would require me adding approximately the same number of cards I did this year so may be a reach but we will see.

* Add one mid/high end Olajuwon '90s insert or autograph — same as last year, I just need to be willing to pay the price. I would like to add one of his Autographics cards one day.

* Add rookie cards of five Hall of Famer players that I do not currently have RCs for — a lot to choose from so should be achievable

* Add at least one card to my side PCs of Kirk Penney, Sean Marks and Travis Wilson — I was reminded of these by another member and they have been fairly neglected so will look to give them slightly more love in 2023.

* Finally ship my 2022 cards stored in the States back to New Zealand. Could give me a good winter project to work on when work is less busy.

Not a ton of specific goals this year.

1. Keep up organizing/putting cards away when I get them so I don't have stacks of cards all over the house again.

2. Restart trading again (shut it down to work on organizing).

3. Continue working on getting images of cards in my collection scanned for the site (currently 925 Baseball missing images and 63 Gaming missing images).

4. Research the checklists needed for the final style of Gaming cards that I need to get added to the site and then get those cards added to my collection on the site. 

I would really like to reduce the amount of stuff that I no longer want.  Sell off and/or trade for the stuff I really want.   Reduce duplicates maybe aquire investment cards.  

Currently I’m a Minor League collector of one specific team, I’ll have to decide which platform to list and sell on.  Probably EBay since they are mostly team sets.  
 

The majority of the MLB cards I have are from 87-93 (junk wax era).  And some Basketball cards.

I have a lot of HOF Carlton Fisk  (100+ cards) I’d like to find a home for and a rather substantial size collection of HOF Nolan Ryan (over a thousand) that perhaps I should start moving the duplicates.  

(In no order)

Get more Zach Aston-Reese Cards (If you have any and are intrested in trading please let me know even if I don't have cards on your wantlist.)

Work on my 2 rainbows in progress (2020-21 Mosaic Luguentz Dort, 2014 Topps chrome Ryan Shazier)

Finish 21-22 UD series 1 set

Finish 1 or 2 90's football sets that I'm trying to complete

Send out some PIFS

That's all!

Now that the new year is here. Im going to set 3 goals this as I did last year. 

1) Get to 5000 different Flyers cards

2) Make 150 trades

3) Organize my traders which I don't even know what is there

Shocking to see I'm not the only one with a organize my piles goal. I thought I was the only one with that (dis)organization system.

From a collecting goal, it would be nice to get my 'needs' list lower than my have list. My collecting goal is 1 card per unique player/team combination. So a need is not having 1 for such a combo.

Right now there is about a 1500 gap between the 2, but this will drop once I get everything catalogued. Of course I can always just increase the needs pile by adding more minor league cards and soccer cards, so I suspect this is a never ending quest.

My only goal currently is to complete the 1977 Topps Star Wars set. If anyone has any blue borders in VG-EX or better, I might be interested in purchasing.

The sticker set is secondary, but I want to finish that as well.