[david campos]

2016 hobby goals

1. Get more organized
2. Organize my player PC's of Jeter, Pujols, Clemente, Koufax, Mariano Rivera, Nolan Ryan, Rickey Henderson and others.
3. Add to my extensive list of cards in my organize.
4. Downsize in as many trades as possible.
5. Pick up a Bird/Magic rookie in a PSA 8 or 8.5. Looking for a nice copy with good centering and a clean surface.
6. Have fun and clean off my computer desk at least once a month..haha

Here are the results.

1. Done but always more to do and purchased a large collection in October that I am still sorting now.
2. Epic fail on this part. I keep trying to get other things organized while downsizing in the trades I have been trying to complete.
3. I added quite a few cards and most of my stuff in my organize was mostly stars, inserts, parallels, and rookies. Slowly adding base cards to my organize and that has actually increased my trades while being able to move stuff that would otherwise sit in boxes.
4. I completed 45 trades in 2016 and was able to downsize in 39 of them. I traded 1050 cards away while getting 588 back in trade. I was able to downsize by 462 cards. (I have a excel spreadsheet that I created that helps keep track.)
5. I have been following the bird/magic rookies but have been picky on when to pull the trigger. Should have bit the bullet and bought one earlier. They were selling for around $300 when I was looking and now they are closing for $700 and up depending on the centering and print dots/defects.
6. My desk is currently a mess although I cleaned it off about 2 weeks ago.