Wantlists - How did yours start

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Posted By: AndyH

I’ve been collecting for roughly ten years now, off and on in the beginning, with much more passion the past 5 years or so. I don’t have the resources to really accumulate quantity or quality, so my collection (which I love btw) is filled with a good mixture of typecards and the beginnings of a few sets. Because of this, I have never really had the need to sit down and put together a real wantlist. I have been thinking about finally putting one together and, frankly, I am stumped as to what to put on it

My question to you all is: How did you put your first wantlist together? What did you put on it? Did you put everything you wanted regardless of the reality of whether you could actually afford it or not? Did you really list every card from a set that you only had a few of, or did you wait until you were really getting closer to legitimately saying you were putting the set together? Do you have more than one list, a “master” list and then an “active” list?

Thanks for any help and I’m really looking forward to hearing about your lists.


Thanks,

Andy