New Resolutions

 It may sound a bit corny with the new year and all, but I don't like making new resolutions just because it's a new year. Who really sticks to that anyway? However, given one of the purposes of this blog is to help me "condense, consolidate and catalog", I figure some resolutions are in order. 

So here we go:

• Finish 2 of the following baseball sets: 1969, 1970, 1971 or 1972 Topps.
• I would file this resolution under projects labeled "things I should do but never find the time to do".  I started these sets awhile ago and they've been left to languish ever since. I have boxes and boxes of cards from these years, but I really have no idea how close I am to completing the sets.

• Finish a shiny new set.  This includes Upper Deck hockey (series 1,2 plus update series including young guns), 2020 Prizm Football (including rookies) and the 2021 Topps 70th patch insert set.
• I know this goes against my admitted bias against shiny new cards, but I somehow get dragged into new stuff every now and then.

• Finish the 1986 Fleer Basketball set.
• Yes this is THE basketball set. I was lucky enough to obtain the big one prior to the pandemic and it is the single most expensive card I have ever purchased. It's not perfect, so I'll still have to pay the mortgage but it's authentic. I have been accumulating this set ever since. Only 26 20 cards left.

• Reduce my collection by 30k cards.
• The is where the "condense and consolidate" part comes in. Prior to the pandemic I estimated the collection to be around 250k strong. I know collectors who claim to have a million+ cards, but that's not my goal and 250k is alot of cards to move around. In the past 12-18 months I have sold off or given away about 30k cards.  However recently I've also been growing my collection, so it's time to pare things back a bit.

• Accumulate more vintage especially from the 1956 and 1965 sets.
• I've always liked the 1965 set and for some reason never focused on it though I have a few cards in a box somewhere. The 1956 set never really interested me until some guy decided to show off his 1956 set.

• Organize, organize, organize!
• My collection continues to be an unmanaged monster. I'm tackling this little by little.

That's it.  Six simple resolutions. I left off the "blog more" resolution because that should be a given. Some of these may even seem a bit on the light side, but I'm guessing the 4th resolution may be the toughest and what good is a resolution if it's unattainable?