new years resolutions

MajorDanby

last year, stone had a great post that asked all the members their new year's resolutions for the upcoming year as they relate to card collecting. I tried searching for the post, but couldnt find it. If anyone has better forum searching skills, can you post it up. It would be great to see what everyone said then...and which ones, if any, did each of us stick to.

So, what are your 2006 new year's resolutions for card collecting?

I'll start:

Focus. I am no longer going to do a search on ebay and buy everything and anything that is greg maddux and hank aaron. i dont have the money to do that...nor do i have the patience to continually buy these cards and realize, a few weeks or months later, than i really didnt want them. I now have a more refined focus on what i want to collect...so, i am going to stick with it. HOF rookies, HOF T206's and HOF 1951 bowmans. that's it!

1954 Hank Aaron johnston's cookies. I have seen three up on ebay (and none in the big auctions)...and each time i hesitated to buy. One was a great looking raw card, another was a PSA 5 and another was a GAI 3. All were within my budget....and all were nice looking cards. Yet, i didnt pull the trigger. This year!!

MorrellMan

Here it is

...and here's another one.

Stone193

It's kind of early yet...

But I kind of put next year's resolution to work - pay off credit card. Don't buy anything I can't afford to pay off the next month.

Merry Christmas
mike

NewJerseyMeatHook

What Mike said!

MajorDanby

mark...i saw those, but stone had another post that had about 2 pages of replies. couldnt find it.

julen23

In no particular order (or perhaps in some particular order):

1-(Hopefully) not be so foolish to do this again.. sigh

2-No Mas No Mas 1984 donruss: I totally deny any dealing w/ 1984 donruss cardboard, I am now a better man for it, stronger and smarter, bygones be bygones my friends. 1984 donruss 1 Julen 0

3-Focus more on 1969 topps master set, crossing my fingers more when I set my max bid insanely high on a card i really want or need (is there a difference) and wind up paying very cheap price for the card.

4-Assuming psa begins grading packs next year, I will get into this arena. I wonder if there is going to be a new Forum on these message boards dedicated to Graded PSA Packs?

5-Learn how to create super bad-A$$ cards like Knuckles, word on the street is his "Guide To Making Sensational Cardboard In 10 or fewer Days" is a real winner! All kidding aside, your one talented guy, goalie masks off to you my friend.

6-Listen to more Beatles albums (yea, off topic but needed to be said)

Julen
On Vacation until January 9th and drinking Guinness Stout for breakfast, lunch and dinner

ndleo

My resolution is to slowly exit the hobby. I plan to start selling off the rest of my inventory on ebay starting in Jan. 2006. I will donate my thousands of commons to charity. I will keep my 1986 Fleer BKB set, my BGS 9.5 1989 Barry Sanders, and continue working on my 1955 Topps All-American set. I might keep my 1976-77 Topps Basketball box, the box is worn, but the packs are in great condition.

Once I sell off most of the collection, I plan to rip a 1993 SP Baseball Box and (3) 2004 SP Authentic FB boxes to celebrate.

After 25 years, I'm ready to focus on something else. I'm not some bitter old man (heck I'm only in my 30's), but it is not as fun as it used to be.

I do plan to hold on my Topps stock investment. I still think they will be bought out.

Merry Christmas.

Boopotts

I resolve to buy more junk wax and try to build quality mint sets from the contents within.

I also resolve to try and put together a nmt-mt run of 1974-1977 OPC hockey.

julen23

ndleo,

you celebrate getting out of cards by opening 4 boxes of cards?

i hear ya brother.

Julen

eyebone

ndle0....I hope your decision to "get out" does not impact on your posting habits; I find you to be one of the most intelligent and insightful posters on this site (which is why I almost always agree with the things you write....lol).

I resolve to:

1. Finally complete my very nice raw OPC hockey sets from 1969 through 1972 (getting close on a couple of them).

2. Not buy any more new wax (bought 3 boxes last week and pulled nada.....as usual). I cannot tell you how many times I have made this vow, only to break it at the thought of pulling some rare/valuable 1/1 from Legendary Cuts.

3. Get rid of all the unnecessary cards, memorabilia, etc. I have cluttering up my basement; to focus only on what I really want to collect.

Eyebone

theczar

If I may share a story of a plan I had to rid myself of cards last year at this time. I had the usual sets of baseball cards from 1981-1990. Many were in factory sets, the rest in binders. Not beat up, the set were built right from vending into binders but you know the story off center etc. Gradeable they would be PSA 7 or 8 as a rule.

I contemplated how to get rid of this stuff. E-Bay? The postage would be as much as some of the sets.

My childs school had an auction. I talked to the head of the auction about donating the cards and he had an orgasm. Mark McGwire, Barry Bond, Roger Clemens, Cal Ripken rookies etc. --bring it on.

I had to be honest since we all know that 99% of the public think baseball cards are the milky way to riches. I said that on E-Bay with a world wide market I estimated this stuff could get $1200-$1500. (A couple cards of Gwynn, Ripken and few other rookies were PSA 9) I didn't want him to advertise that this was a gold mine.

Well he did anyway. Bottom line you plow enough suburbanites with liquor and their egos overload their wallets. This stuff went for $6000.
I was a hero! I talked to the guy who bought them and he asked if he thought that he got a good deal. I answered no but at least it was for the school. It also gave me a tax write-off to boot that I wasn't expecting that was close to what I would have gotten on E-Bay.

Perhaps if any of you want to dump off stuff, charity auctions may be the way.

A follow-up: The buyer's wife was ready to kill him and he ended up selling everything for $2000.

Next school auction: Unopened wax of 1990 Upper Deck and Score hockey. Viva Eric Lindros!

ndleo

Thanks guys. I do plan to keep on posting since I do enjoy the social aspect of the hobby.

Yeah it does seem strange that I would celebrate the end of my heavy collecting days with ripping 4 boxes. Think of it as a junkie's last trip before he sobers up.