2025 Collecting Goals

[LWMM]

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For the 17th year running... What are your goals for the coming year?

Jonny Gomes:

1. Add one non-1/1 card from the needs list (2001–2019)
2. Finish the two non-1/1s from the 2022 Japanese set I just discovered (a /5 base parallel and a /5 auto)
3. Add two 1/1s
4. Add two game-used jerseys
5. Add two game-used bats
6. Add 365 serial-numbered cards

I'm missing only eleven non-1/1s for Gomes, two of which are from a 2022 set I recently discovered; see posts 5, 58, and 66, here. Finding the 2022 cards is a decent possibility, but the ones before that will be tough; I find one only every few years, and three of those nine likely don't exist. 1/1s, for their part, come around once or twice a year, so finding two is potentially doable.

Game used jerseys and bats are likewise possible; I found three jerseys and one bat in 2024, and several are available even now (albeit substantially overpriced).

Curious to see how the 365 goal pans out—given how sporadic new additions are, I've taken to collecting dupes of serial-numbered cards. This will be something fun to focus on throughout the year.

 

[finestkind]

I've never had any collecting goals. I always hoped that I might find one or two vintage cards for my collection. I did manage to finish my 1975 baseball set a few weeks ago.

 

[michaelstepper]

In no particular order,
2025 goals:

1) Aquire one of the two gold refractor Griffeys I need.
2002 Bowman chrome
2004 Bowman chrome

2) Find 5-8 of the remaining 2005 Sweet Spot red-blue stitch autos I need for my set swap
Current needs:
Tony gwynn
Tom seaver
Steve Carlton
Stan musial
Phil Rizzuto
Mark grace
Johnny bench
Harry kalas
Jim bunning
George brett
Fernando Valenzuela
Dennis Eckersley
Dave Justice
Dale Murphy
Cal ripken
Bob gibson
Bo Jackson
Billy williams
Al kaline

3) pick up 5-10 HOF patch, leaf bat barrel or legendary signatures cards for the PC

4) I'll bulk these together, Find 3-5 of ANY of my other Sweet Spot wants

5) Continue selling unwanted items

6) Buy more Mags and supplies to get the PC all protected correctly

 

[banjar]

Nice archaeology on the old links!

My goals for this year are simple as usual.

1) More Alomar pickups. And this time I am targeting one white whale.

2) More Parker pickups. This is turning out to be really fun. But as I keep building that PC, the ones I need will become more rare and expensive, so it'll slow down. Still fun though.

Prior threads:

• 2009
• 2010 (thread 2)
• 2011
• 2012 (thread 2) (recap)
• 2013 (thread 2)
• 2014 (recap)
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017
• 2018 (thread 2)
• 2019
• 2020
• 2021 (recap)
• 2022
• 2023
• 2024 (recap)

 

[LWMM]

1) More Alomar pickups. And this time I am targeting one white whale.

Is the whale one card in particular, or there are several whales and you're hoping to get one of them?

 

[banjar]

Ah, that was a little ambiguous. I'd like to land at least one of several that are still floating around out there!

 

[CardBoredom]

2025 Collecting Goals
Toning things down a bit in 2025 after a big hobby year:

1. Spend less than $120 on building my collection in the first six months of 2025. I need to keep expansion of the collection in check while I catch up on enjoying what I already have.
2. Surprise at least six collectors with unplanned mail days containing cards from their want lists.
3. Add three more cards to either my Charlie Bishop or Jose Canseco player collections.
4. Bring the percentage of cards meeting at least one of my overall collecting goals up from the current 79% to at least 90%. The most likely path to accomplish this will be a significant thinning of the contents of my sell/give away box.
5. Overhaul the “Other Cards” section of my website, separating out my player focused sub-collections into usable form.
6. Profile at least 60 cards on the site in the coming year.

 

[jmc855]

Not a ton of goals this year. Gonna slim down heavily on any buying due to having to add a car payment to the monthly financial mix and hoping to coach my 7 year old with little league this year. Priority shifts incoming.

Goal 1. Trade something for 98 pinnacle plus gold AP.

Goal 2. Get ALL cards into binders thatvarent on display.

Goal 3 get some key items IP auto'd.

 

[Philip J. Fry]

This past year was…busy, I guess you can say. I lost focus on my goals for 2024 once I was promoted at work and had playtime money.

But that helped out because this past month of sorting through what I bought this year, I decided to focus on a couple of things:

1. My main PC player will be Don Mattingly. Doesn’t mean I’m only collecting his cards, but focusing on one player instead of 5 should allow me to collect a good portion of his non-limited cards.

2. The Core Four - a little self-explanatory here, but I’m still going to collect Jeter, Posada, Pettitte, and Mo. this helps me focus on collecting cards of said players during their career with the Yankees.

3. I’m not a team collector like others here, who collect a card of each player that ever played for their collecting team. With that said, I will collect players that made an impact when they played for the Yankees, such as Mike Mussina, Wade Boggs, CC Sabathia, and others who played more than one season with the team. But they have to be in the NYY uniform.

364 days from now I hope to have made a huge dent in the first 2 goals.