Halfway through 2024. What have you achieved?

[bbobrob]

My goals in the 2024 goals thread were as follows:

@bbobrob

-Complete English + Japanese Hoppip/Skiploom/Jumpluff species collection. I’m pretty much done with Japanese (missing one card, as far as I’m aware), and have mostly non-holos and reverses to fill out for English, which, admittedly, can probably be knocked out pretty fast with some dedicated time on TCGPlayer.

-I’m at roughly 50% completion on my reverse holo Expedition set. With a lot of rares left to acquire, I hope to reach maybe 75% completion by end of 2024?

-I’d like to attempt trading at some point (whether online or in person). I sometimes pick up random cards on Ebay if I can find/win them for below market price with the intention of building up a trade binder. I don’t mind having them sit around, as I could always sell them, but I like the idea of trading much more (in addition to the other benefit of avoiding a ~18% value loss due to selling fees).

I am mostly done with English + Japanese Hoppips/Skiplooms/Jumpluffs, as I did take some time this year to do that large TCGPlayer order. I’m only missing around 4 cards, as far as I’m aware, and I’ll probably pick them up sometime before the year is over.

I’m also making good progress on the Expedition reverse holos, with about 113/165 completed. So hitting 75% complete before the end of the year should be very doable, as I still have some relatively cheap ones to acquire.

And I’ve already accomplished the third goal, which I am happy about. I’ve traded with a couple E4 members and with another random collector I met through Mercari US—all for non-TCG items. I’ve definitely enjoyed trading a lot and hope to initiate more trades, if possible, before the end of the year.

Overall, I am on a good path for accomplishing what I set out to do for 2024!