Closing out 2024 and setting goals/plan for 2025.

FIRST THINGS FIRST. 5 followers made through all 4 weeks of giveaways. Each week I randomized the number of times as the week. That means week 4 was four times.

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Mark wins. That is back to back weeks and to think he almost bailed out of week 3, but didn't. Hopefully, you bought that billion dollar winning mega millions ticket in California too :)

Now I do still have three more of those Ohtani's. I will probably have a couple of giveaways in the coming year with 2 of those.

We made it to the end of the year. The last few years I made "goals" or plans for this blog and my collection that were easily obtainable. A decade ago those "goals" would have been doable, but difficult. I decided (when I was up in Valdosta) to make them stress free goals and at the same time would take a concerted effort (not that that means much). 

Here are the 2024 goals that were set 1 year ago on the blog. Only 3 (used to do 5).

1) Add at least 1 T206 to my set build. ACCOMPLISHED. that goal years back was originally 5 then down to three, but not anymore. It goes without saying that this is a set that I will with 99.9% certainty NOT complete. My collection now has 47 (not including the Braves which I have all but one.

2) Cleanup the messes that I made November and December 2023. ACCOMPLISHED. Now I must say that I did two more boos this year that I am slowly but surely working to clean up as well.

3) Get some sets completed. ACCOMPLISHED, but still not satisfactory. I say so so I did get that 74' done, but as far as vintage big sets that was it. I did a couple of modern sets, and a couple of smaller vintage sets. 

I still give myself an "A" (I usually do).

Now onto the goals for 2025 and yes one of them actually pertains to this blog!

1) AS always add at least 1 T206 card to that set build.

2) Complete the PC update. This one is going to be a push. I have only completed through the C's. Technically I've done the A's twice, and plan on hitting the B's and C's again before resuming the D's. I spent most of December re-updating the A's and my Braves team sets mixed into the the 2 weeks of Christmas stuff. I am planning on re-updating the B's this coming week, and the C's the following. I have to do this before moving on as I've already added a couple thousand to just those 2. Can't move forward with those big stacks. Gonna get er done.

3) Actually, bring back two old themes on this blog. I've been sayign I was going to for 3 years now. I am doing it. Wacky Wednesdays and Shadow Shots are on the horizon. I also plan on trying to get the Franken-Fridays going too. No promises on that one, but I want to.

Now to finish up with this years numbers. Braves numbers that is.

As the writing of this post so far (there are several sets still to be released that are considered 2024 sets). Braves cards: 12,209. Last year there were a smidge under 15K. That will more than likely be closer to the end numbers once they are done with 2024 releases. 

I feel like I have gotten a quarter of them, but we all know better. Way too many parallels. I did get more "current" Braves this year than usual for sure. I certainly added more non current Braves this year than probably any other year. I have written down all of the numbers from every year. One day I'll post those up so you can see the changes along the way.

2024 brought several milestones for me and this blog. The top 4 highlights were:

1 million blog views

3000th OCT trades

3000th blog post.

30,000th unique Braves card in my collection.

Hard to top those so not expecting any major milestones although there is one in my eyesight (more on that when I accomplish it). 

I am looking forward to an awesome 2025. I want to thank everyone for stopping by and hope that you continue to do so. Heck, bring a friend or two, lol.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!