Happy New Year! The blog year in review and the future

 I certainly hope that you reading this means that your weekend wasn't "harmful". My wasn't I stayed home as per my usual. Hunter was pretty much here all week. That is always a good thing. My December was a mess though. That 100K (75-80k) card deal messed me up big time. I am discombobulated to say the least. I have sorted the boxes and gone through them 2 1/2 times trying to find that ONE card. Still haven't found it. I know that it isn't the thousand dollar card though I still want/need to find that card. I will spill eventually spill the beans on exactly what I am looking for, just not today. The big issue for me is that I haven't done much at all with my collection and I have stacks all over the place (I usually do) except now they are "spilling" over into each other and I lost track of some things, just a mess. The first part on January has it's work cut out as you will see below.

Let us get this party started.

I typically make some mediocre goals for my collection. Let's review the 2023 goals.

1) get my collection organized. The original plan 1 year ago was to do an addition to my house to have a card room to house everything together. That changed when I became the sole resident in my home again. Needless to say why pay the ridiculous pricing for doubling the size of my house when I don't have too. I did manage to get my cards grouped together where they belong and displayed for the most part, still a major work in progress when dealing with the PC guy collection. I did some work with the trade boxes too. Still yet I give myself an A.

2) add at least one T206 card. I did that and it was the last Braves card that I needed or so I thought at the time. A+ as it was still a double hit for me.

3) organize the franken-sets and start at least 1 of them. Definitely a A+. I not only organized them (then tore all but 1 of those apart) but I scanned them and posted them. I still have 1 ready to go in a few weeks and 1 other one that is still in accumulation mode. That last one will be for the future like maybe in a year or two.

4 layoff retail blasters except for Topps Holiday and Stadium Club. I completely laid off of all retail blasters. Heck TSC isn't even out yet. I bought the Holiday set complete. The only down side to that is I no have any image variations (Christmas variations). It's not like I am ever going to complete any of those variation sets from any year. A+

Yes, I gave myself an A+ overall. I'm good with what I got done.

Now for the 2024 collecting goals.

1) add at least 1 T206 card (I will actually try to get more than 1).

2) clean the mess up from December.

3) focus a little more on completing some sets (in other words actually look for the cards that I need). 

That is it. Simple and if accomplished sweet.

Now for a few cards of athletes who share this day as their birthday.

I have to applaud Mac for being so active at his age. He turned 124 years old today....according to this card back.

There you go. I know there are lots more athletes who celebrate their birthday today, but I gave up a long time ago focusing on the card backs for birthdates other than the family related birthdays, and a select few "holidates".

Be well and I wish everyone a great New Year!