Where is your collection heading in 2024?

[frohme]

Still T207, still front/back master... no telling how many years its really been now, but consciously maybe 15-20. So still grinding.

On the plus side, 2023 was the best year in the last 5 or so, as I knocked off about 10 cards, but there are still 30 to go, and confirmation still outstanding on 12 cards.... so not expecting to finish in 2024 unless there is an outpouring of finds.

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by frohme

Still T207, still front/back master...

Thats an awesome project. Do you have a pic or link to the master? I would love to see it (and I am sure I am not alone).

I am not sure what 2024 will bring for me. I expect I will continue to go for rare stuff. I expect I will sell off some stuff and take profits. My business is real estate, which is very interest-rate sensitive. If rates start to go down, I may feel more comfortable investing in cardboard. If rates remain at this level (or go up), I will probably increase my selling and buy less cardboard, hoarding cash and buying high-yield, short-term bonds earning a good return and ensuring liquidity in the event its needed to preserve/assist with certain real estate investments. For me, its all kind of connected -- money into cards is money not invested/to be used in assets elsewhere and vice versa.

[Vintageismygame]

Hope to finish up the subset of T206 that I have been working on. Just about 15 cards left I believe.

Matt

[nwfsteve]

Want this before I’m too old to enjoy it. Love the card. May sell 60s or 70s sets to acquire the card in nice shape, since my heirs would not be interested in shelf-filling sets.

[Exhibitman]

Same old same old for baseball. Try to add Ruth Robinson Pele when it makes sense, oddball Hank Aaron items too.

Candidly, I am transitioning into retirement from law and my destination is ... cards. I have run a side hustle in old cardboard for years and I plan to make a lot more of it. Just having a blast so far. I can see I am going to be very busy with it. In addition to the finding and selling, there is my blog and eventual podcast and whatever the next tech wave allows me to build.

But I digress.

I have gotten to a point where i favor non-traditional collectible areas, so I am focusing on vintage racing, pin-ups, entertainment and pop culture stuff more than the traditional four sports. Plus anything that I find interesting, beautiful or underappreciated. I expect I will add to all of these categories in 2024. One thing I will say for it, girlies are a lot nicer to look at than dead men in uniforms







As to rock, my wife says I am going through my second adolescence. I say

[frohme]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Thats an awesome project. Do you have a pic or link to the master? I would love to see it (and I am sure I am not alone).

Thank you, Ryan.

I'm still working on the presentation as I've tried a couple things that don't look quite right/aren't easy to digest ... like my current form which just has them all broken out by back and ordered alphabetically... meh.

That said, current progress is in albums at/on my ImageEvent site and linked in my sig. More commentary/info to come, but it is what it is for now. Thanks for the kind words.