Hello everyone! My name is Madison, and I stumbled across this awesome forum while checking out Smpratte’s sweet Youtube channel! I started collecting around 2004-2005ish (my first cards were from an EX Dragon theme deck, to give you an idea) and I’ve been hooked ever since! This past year I started to get really serious about collecting. If you would have talked to me a few years ago I would have shown you my ultra rare binder organized by type and species. Now? Everything is organized by set, I have a very specific wants list, and have calculated the remaining cost of completion for each set.
So, what exactly are my collecting goals? Glad you asked! They are… (In this order 
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-Complete every every English main series set (Normal print, no 1st ed + reverses)
-Complete every English main series set (Reverse Holo + 1st edition)
-Complete English main Promo and POP Sets
-Complete Japanese Exclusive Sets
-Complete super hard to find English and Japanese promos??? Maybe??? Hopefully?
(Fun/stretch goals)
-360 XY Evolutions Imakuni’s Doduos. Why? Card makes me laugh, and I love to make other people laugh! I’m going into animation, so all of my work revolves around making people emote and be entertained. This card reminds me of my passions. 
-9 of each English Ultra rare (cards from sets plus promos! )
-Ultimate Pokedex! 3 of each variant of every Pokemon! (English + Japanese exclusives) Example? 3 of every variant of Torchic card! (Normal print, reverse print, and Japanese exclusives!)
So yeah! I’m pretty ambitious! They don’t say gotta catch 'em all for nothing!
I hope to use this thread as a way to track and catalog my journey! That means posting mail, complete sets, random cool cards, and all that super awesome jazz!
Here’s a few pictures of my collection I took off of Instagram. Some of my favorite cards + photos that I feel illustrate my goals the best! (Screenshots from the desktop site, sorry if they’re not the highest of quality!) If you wanna take a peak at more singles from my collection, check me out @pokesoap !
(These are older photos, cards are in different binders now!)
So yeah, here’s just a bit! I’ll be sure to share more soon!
I’ll update my thread later with my sets once I get back to my binders (typing this from a work computer, naughty me 
) I’ll probably upload the images on Imgur and post links to the albums here. Don’t want to swamp you guys with a bunch of photos!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my thread! I hope you enjoy my (insane) set collection journey!
-Madison S. aka Pokesoap
Glad to see ya here Madison!
