How do you stay focused on a project.

[GeoPoto]

If you have a favorite team, consider "team collecting". It allows you to be involved in many different sets, but with a much smaller footprint.

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[CRT Sportscards]

It is all about personal accountability. I'm building the 520 right now and I am 289/520 but I not letting myself buy anything else. It will take me a few more years to complete but then after that, I will allow myself to explore other items.

[LEHR]

What is this focus you speak of? I apparently lack that.

Over the decades I've easily started 100+ sets, and have completed 5 that I remember. I've even had half a dozen sets over 75% complete in PSA 8 grade but ended up getting bored and selling. These days I've finally accepted that I'm more of a type collector than anything, and like to dabble in a lot of different collectibles. I also prefer to have a smaller but higher quality collection.

And sometimes I still want to be a set collector.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

If you need more focus on something you're doing that's supposed to have captured your passion in the first place, then find a new passion. You clearly aren't all that interested.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

If you need more focus on something you're doing that's supposed to have captured your passion in the first place, then find a new passion. You clearly aren't all that interested.

+1
Every time I do something other than type card collecting it gets boring. Variety is the spice of life

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

To add to my previous comment, I'm certainly not discouraging OP or anyone else to leave this hobby! Not when there are countless wonderful ways of enjoying it! Simply find another avenue to go down to rekindle the flame. The absolute best part of this hobby is that there truly are no rules! If you want to buy two 1986 Topps commons and then proclaim you've collected every baseball card known to exist, there's nobody stopping you! It's not incorrect if it's your personal truth. Do it however you want. That should be the joy of it.

If you're bored with trying to collect an entire set, then just realize that this notion of a "set" is just a rule implemented by someone else. Move on.

I completely gave up on unsigned cards over 30 years ago when there were so many new releases that it was simultaneously dizzying and sickening. I switched solely to autographs and haven't looked back. I was attempting to collect the autograph of every single man to put on a MLB uniform from 1876 onward. A daunting and impossible task, but I made wonderful headway. Then, as the 1990's gave way to the new millennium, I was struggling to enjoy the disgusting scribbles of the new guys to join the fold. I created a new rule that my version of this collection would end at the year 2000. That way, I didn't have to collect things that turned my stomach to look at, just because they were part of a "set", if you will.

[skelly423]

I'm in a similar boat, I'm building the 1952 Topps set. At times it can feel like a real grind, or the supply of cards can dry up. I like to have a side project to work on as a distraction when the 1952 build stalls. In my case I've been picking up a few affordable singles I've always liked, as well as some Diamond Stars cards to for an eventual build of that set.

I find the distraction can serve as a good change of pace, and I feel refreshed when I get back to the main set again.