I’m collecting much more passively now and for the forseeable future, so ill just have one collecting goal which is to get more artist autographs obtained only through myself and not 2nd hand.
One life goal for 2025 is to get full time offer in sales and trading or advisory.
-collect at least 50x copies of surfing pikachu(including the variant)
-complete all of my scans, dusting, organizing ,and keep them slated for the following years’(2026) PSA grading large submission but only at about 1/5th of my 100x collection at that time…
-buy a graded card holding binder as i like the showmanship aspect
(Side note to end pokemon goals=someone once told me that the difference between a hoarder and a collector is cleanliness and organization, so ill be doing all aspects of that while working on a new thread as the old one is a little cluttered and was made before the master plan)
Non pokemon goals?
None. Life is good. Pokemon is life.
Actually organize my cards (biggest thing… it’s holding me back from everything lol), finish out my miscellaneous arcanine collection, and get all my arcanine stuff together and take updated pictures.
One of my major goals for 2025 is to complete a PSA 9 EX Sandstorm Set, all reverses, holos, and ex. I’ll probably put the non-holos in a binder.
I also need to finish the ex cards for my PSA 9 EX Team Rocket Returns Set. Everything else is complete, I’ve just been dragging my feet. Once it’s finished, some of the fun is done.
Did pretty well with 2024 goals. I should be finishing my Hoppip/Skiploom/Jumpluff collection once I order a few code variants that I’ve put off for a long time And I’m pretty sure I met my 75% completion goal for my reverse Expedition set. Completed some trades this year too
For 2025, I think my goals would be:
90-100% completion for my reverse Expedition set
Definitely need to organize my cards. Most of them sit in stacks and boxes right now. They should really go into proper binders.
I did a few trades at one point this year, but then it kind of fell off. I’d like to try to put some more effort into trying to complete more trades in the upcoming year.
Complete several art projects that have been sitting incomplete for probably 1+ years (two Pokemon-related, one not).
My snail’s pace goals to achieve by the end of 2025 are to complete the No Rarity binder (so I can finally shut up about it), and to have all ex cards from ex Dragon in a binder. I would be very happy with that, but if I can achieve more (Shadowless binder progress for example) then even better.
Same as 2024, honestly. Stay up to date on new eevee releases, ideally grade every art I come across and pick up all of the other variants for the binder. I’m a little nervous that the secret rare from PrEv will be expensive (if it’s even real, who knows) but I’ll do what I can.
Finish my Crimson Haze Master Set,
Finish Collecting every Base Set Japanese Holo in a PSA 9
Keeping filling out my Japanese AR Binder
Win the Lottery and own every Zapdos ever made in a PSA 10
I was lucky enough to accomplish a lot of my 2024 goals, here are some for 2025
Finish my Gen III reverse holo binder - only have about a half a dozen cards or less from each set to fill each binder pocket. Biggest challenge is selecting which to exclude.
Complete the original lottery trio
Continue 98 fukuyama postcards
Find vintage Pokemon Center Kimura postcards
Copycat L-P promo
Vaporeon Play Gold Star
Skyridge Zard
Split Earth cover trainer magazine
Fan Club Eevee or Porygon
Rip a lot of the new rocket and trainer’s set with my friends
If I happen to find an Illusions Zoroark or Zorua or Arceus illustration promo before acquiring some of the bigger items I hope to pick one of those up, and would be the last purchase of 2025.
deciding what I want to collect. I started with the thought of a base set because that’s what I knew growing up. After that I thought about eeveelutions and for now I am thinking about Umbreon and dragonite.
also try to make some purchases to flip to fund my hobby
I’ve had such a busy year and done so many new things, I’m not sure what my new goals would be at this point. I completed some of the goals I had for 2024, but I focused a lot on boosting my income through business and other activities. It’s paid off massively and so I think in 2025 I can get back more into Pokemon again. I didn’t think it’d be possible, but I may even be able to get into some bigger cards going forward, assuming the market doesn’t shoot up again before I go for something. This was not in my forecast a year or 2 ago. So overall, I’m excited and things are definitely looking up going into 2025 and beyond for me personally.
Anyway, for sure these are still some gaps I need to fill, so I’ll highlight what does come to mind:
Finish collecting Neo Destiny 1st Ed Shinings (still need Charizard, Celebi, Mewtwo)
Finish 1st Ed Base Set (5 holos to go, and I got the big 3)
May try and go for E-Reader binder sets, still undecided
Soft goals will be 10k eBay feedback, Continue to grind out eBay and grow my brand.
Hard goal will be restraint. I met so many huge collection goals for myself this year and big buys for my collection that Its well past time to dial that back. Im probably due for a thinning of my collection as well. But step one is get my hobby spending back in check, which is something ive yet been able to do for years and years now haha.
Reselling changed quite a bit over this year and I am fortunate I was able to adapt and grow my store at a big pace. I went from probably 80% graded sales this time last year to 90% singles this year. Knock on wood I can continue to keep a step ahead of this or that.