What are your 2025 collecting goals?

[Dyl]

Do you know how much you’ve spent on these 1,000 slabs in the past year and what that collection is worth in November 2025?

[ddk]

Every day, we get one step closer to finding out Dyl works for the IRS.

[wisewailmer]

Btw this pic is amazing.

If I ever evolve I’ll steal this pic as my pfp

[Will]

Credit to reddit from 12 years ago

[Bellsprout]

It takes this much space :

Each box is 40-42 slabs so 24 boxes is 960-1008

I had to stop there because it’s getting impractical and pily. Value wise it’s hard to assess because i mainly collect by full set artist so a lot of the cards are niche (in the general sense, not necesseraly by e4 standards), and pricecharting often doesn’t have comps or i even have to add my card manually.

[Bellsprout]

To give you a glimpse of what it consist of (and you can see that financially my decisions are bad since i didn’t get the big chases first before the boom) :

kyoko umemoto	bugsy’s	butterfree	008	x
kyoko umemoto	bugsy’s	beedrill	009	x
kyoko umemoto	bugsy’s	pinsir	010	x
kyoko umemoto	bugsy’s	ledian	011	x
kyoko umemoto	bugsy’s	yanma	012	x
kyoko umemoto	bugsy’s	scizor	013	x
tanaka miki	whitney’s	clefable	014	x
tanaka miki	whitney’s	wigglytuff	015	x
tanaka miki	whitney’s	persian	016	x
tanaka miki	whitney’s	lickitung	017	x
tanaka miki	whitney’s	furret	018	x
tanaka miki	whitney’s	miltank	019	x
yukiko baba	jasmine’s	raichu	027	x
yukiko baba	jasmine’s	magneton	028	x
yukiko baba	jasmine’s	electabuzz	029	x
yukiko baba	jasmine’s	jolteon	030	x
yukiko baba	jasmine’s	ampharos	031	x
yukiko baba	jasmine’s	steelix	032	x
mitsuhiro arita	pryce’s	dugong	039
mitsuhiro arita	pryce’s	cloyster	040	x
mitsuhiro arita	pryce’s	lapras	041	x
mitsuhiro arita	pryce’s	articuno	042	x
mitsuhiro arita	pryce’s	sneasel	043	x
mitsuhiro arita	pryce’s	piloswine	044
mitsuhiro arita	pryce’s	delibird	045	x
tomokazu komiya	janine’s	beedrill	061	x
tomokazu komiya	janine’s	arbok	062	x
tomokazu komiya	janine’s	venomoth	063	x
tomokazu komiya	janine’s	weezing	064	x
tomokazu komiya	janine’s	ariados	065	x
tomokazu komiya	janine’s	crobat	066	x
tomokazu komiya	janine’s	shuckle	067	x
kimiya masago	blaine’s	typhlosion	070	x
kimiya masago	blaine’s	magcargo	071	x
	theater limited vs
kimiya masago	n2	scyther	1
kimiya masago	n2	umbreon	2	x
kimiya masago	n2	scizor	3	x
kimiya masago	n2	kabutops	4	x
kimiya masago	n3	ho-oh	5	x
kimiya masago	japanese vs	blaine’s magcargo	6	x
kimiya masago	japanese vs	blaine’s typhlosion	7	x
kimiya masago	expedition	tyranitar holo	8	x
kimiya masago	expedition	skarmory holo	9	x
kimiya masago	expedition	mewtwo holo	10	x
kimiya masago	expedition	blastoise holo	11	x
kimiya masago	mysterious mountains	houndoom holo	12	x
kimiya masago	mysterious mountains	gyarados holo	13
kimiya masago	split earth	crobat holo	14
kimiya masago	split earth	alakazam holo	15	x
kimiya masago	mirage forest	walrein ex	16	x
kimiya masago	mirage forest	armaldo ex	17

sc	shiny collection	snivy	001	x
sc	shiny collection	servine	002	x
sc	shiny collection	serperior	003	x
sc	shiny collection	growlithe	004	x
sc	shiny collection	torchic	005	x
sc	shiny collection	piplup	006	x
sc	shiny collection	pikachu	007
sc	shiny collection	ralts	008	x
sc	shiny collection	kirlia	009	x
sc	shiny collection	gardevoir	010	x
sc	shiny collection	meloetta-ex	011	x
sc	shiny collection	stunfisk	012	x
sc	shiny collection	purrloin	013	x
sc	shiny collection	eevee	014	x
sc	shiny collection	teddiursa	015	x
sc	shiny collection	ursaring	016	x
sc	shiny collection	audino	017
sc	shiny collection	minccino	018	x
sc	shiny collection	cinccino	019	x
sc	shiny collection	elesa	020
sc	shiny collection	shaymin-ex	021	x
sc	shiny collection	reshiram	022
sc	shiny collection	emolga	023	x
sc	shiny collection	mew-ex	024
sc	shiny collection	meloetta-ex	025	x
cp1	team aqua team magma double crisis	kyogre-ex	006
cp1	team aqua team magma double crisis	groudon-ex	015
cp2	legendary shine collection	chespin	001	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	reshiram	002	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	fennekin	003	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	braixen	004	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	palkia	005	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	froakie	006	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	frogadier	007
cp2	legendary shine collection	pikachu-ex	008	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	zekrom	009
cp2	legendary shine collection	dedenne	010	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	wobbuffet	011
cp2	legendary shine collection	hoopa-ex	012	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	hippopotas	013	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	pancham	014
cp2	legendary shine collection	hawlucha	015
cp2	legendary shine collection	inkay	016	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	dialga	017	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	latias	018	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	latios	019	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	black kyurem	020	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	white kyurem	021	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	meowth	022	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	regigigas	023	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	arceus	024	x
cp2	legendary shine collection	rufflet	025
cp2	legendary shine collection	braviary	026
cp2	legendary shine collection	noibat	027	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	chikorita	001	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	shroomish	002	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	charmander	003	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	charmeleon	004	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	charizard	005	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	flareon-ex	006	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	flareon-ex	007
cp3	pokekyun collection	snorunt	008	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	frosslass	009	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	pikachu	010
cp3	pokekyun collection	raichu	011	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	dedenne	012	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	wobbuffet	013	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	gulpin	014	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	jirachi	015	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	espurr	016	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	meowstic	017	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	yveltal	018	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	gardevoir-ex	019	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	mega gardevoir-ex	020
cp3	pokekyun collection	flabebe	021	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	floette	022	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	swirlix	023	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	slurpuff	024	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	sylveon-ex	025	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	sylveon-ex	026
cp3	pokekyun collection	diancie	027	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	swablu	028	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	altaria	029	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	fletchling	030	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	floral crown	031	x
cp3	pokekyun collection	wally	032	x
promo	pokekyun collection	psyduck		x
promo	pokekyun collection	shaymin-ex	212
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	celebi	001	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	celebi	002	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	shaymin	003	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	shaymin	004	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	moltres	005	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	victini	006	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	victini	007	ccic10
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	volcanion	008	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	volcanion	009	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	suicune	010	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	manaphy	011	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	manaphy	012	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	keldeo	013	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	keldeo	014	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	white kyurem	015	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	mew	016	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	mew	017
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	meloetta	018	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	meloetta	019	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	hoopa-ex	020	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	zygarde	021	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	zygarde-ex	022
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	darkrai	023	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	darkrai	024
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	yveltal	025	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	jirachi	026
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	jirachi	027	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	genesect	028	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	genesect	029	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	magearna	030	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	magearna	031	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	xerneas	032	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	latios-ex	033	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	rayquaza-ex	034
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	arceus	035	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	arceus	036	x
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	yveltal-ex	037
cp5	mythical legendary dream shine collection	xerneas-ex	038
cp6	expansion pack 20th anniversary	venusaur-ex	088	x
cp6	expansion pack 20th anniversary	charizard-ex	090
cp6	expansion pack 20th anniversary	blastoise-ex	092	x
cp6	expansion pack 20th anniversary	pikachu-ex	094
cp6	expansion pack 20th anniversary	mewtwo-ex	095
cp6	expansion pack 20th anniversary	pidgeot-ex	096
cp6	expansion pack 20th anniversary	dragonite-ex	098
si	southern island	mew holo	001
si	southern island	pidgeot	002	x
si	southern island	onix	003	x
si	southern island	togepi holo	004
si	southern island	ivysaur	005	x
si	southern island	raticate	006	x
si	southern island	ledyba holo	007
si	southern island	jigglypuff	008
si	southern island	butterfree	009
si	southern island	tentacruel	010	x
si	southern island	marill holo	011
si	southern island	lapras	012	x
si	southern island	exeggutor	013	x
si	southern island	slowking holo	014
si	southern island	wartortle	015	x
si	southern island	lickitung	016
si	southern island	vileplume holo	017
si	southern island	primeape	018	x
	pokepark forest	celebi	001	x
	pokepark forest	torchic	002	x
	pokepark forest	mudkip	003	x
	pokepark forest	pikachu	004
	pokepark forest	latias	005	x
	pokepark forest	latios	006
	pokepark forest	whismur	007	x
	pokepark forest	munchlax	008	x
	pokepark forest	jirachi	009	x
	mcdonald	bulbasaur	001
	mcdonald	oddish	002	x
	mcdonald	chikorita	003
	mcdonald	charmander	004
	mcdonald	vulpix	005
	mcdonald	cyndaquil	006	x
	mcdonald	squirtle	007
	mcdonald	totodile	008
	mcdonald	marill	009	x
	mcdonald	pikachu	010
	mcdonald	chinchou	011	x
	mcdonald	mareep	012	x
	mcdonald	abra	013	x
	mcdonald	slowpoke	014	x
	mcdonald	natu	015	x
	mcdonald	sandshrew	016	x
	mcdonald	phanpy	017	x
	mcdonald	larvitar	018
	mcdonald	psychic energy holo		x
	mcdonald	fire energy holo		x
	mcdonald	grass energy holo		x
	mcdonald	water energy holo		x
	mcdonald	fighting energy holo		x

[Drew12]

@Drew12

Finish my gen 1/2 dex, pre e-series. I started it in Jan of this year and I’m at 72% which should get to about 80% before the year is done. Hopefully I can finish it and make a collection thread by April or so.
Other than that I’m hoping to go to France and Germany in the first half of the year, and Spain and Italy in the second half.

Off on Christmas vacay tomorrow, so there will be officially no more purchases coming in for the rest of the year.

My Gen 1/2 dex binder is 92% done, a few expensive cards left on the list, but also a bunch of not so expensive cards I could pick up in January (Meowth, Grimer, Croconaw). I just kinda stopped when prices started climbing, but looking forward to finishing it in 2026.

Never made that collection thread! I have bought other Pokemon cards outisde of this binder goal, as well as a few postcards, and many Digimon cards (which are sooooo much cheaper).

I didn’t get to any of those European countries lol, but I did do a lot more exploring of England, and I do have trips already booked for Germany (Feb) and Italy (May), so that will be done in 2026 as well.

[shoops]

Do you ever get anxious that your slabs will fall on you?

[banks]

AKA the slab of Damocles

[Kijamon]

Missed out by a bid on one. So close!

About 5 cards away from finishing the entirety of SV and promos (not reprints or professor cards, etc)

Have heavily dabbled in Japanese Raichus!

[niece]

I have a few very modest goals for 2026. Get my artist binders caught up.

KomiyaI I need a bunch of easy to acquire cards from most of SV . The big Komiya goal is also to finally own one of their art prints from their personal shows. Been entering the lottery every time I can. No luck yet

Finish the Oswaldo Kato, S. Chinese Pika set. Just need the final card Gathering Pika.Then hopefully they stay away from illustrating any more of these exclusives

For modern I’d like to finish the SV art rare set. I started collecting the art rates as a fun way to stay connected to modern Pokemon, now that I play less. With the crazy market spike that has become less enjoyable. I’ve hung in there through most of SV but kinda stalled on Black and White (150 Illustration/Art rares) It would be nice to finish what I started

[joponnes]

2025 was very different than i thought and planned it would be. Regarding my goals the year started in an unbelievable way when i obtained both of my main wants, the other being ready for battle topps card that was the last missing topps card i needed, and the other was my ultimate goal cosmos foil fossil muk that i’m sure a lot of people have seen multiple times as i like to post it everywhere it’s possible. I did buy the card in the first days of the year but i didn’t get it in hand and post here until summer.

However after the big additions the year was just a steep downhill. First came the whole playtest fiasco that took my ultimate feeling of owning something unique from the early days of pokemon. And after that my whole world crushed with some massive family issues that took a big toll on both my mental and physical health, so all my plans for the year basically dropped out. My main goal for the year was to continue the nursery rhymes book i had been working on but after the first months and small progress it had to be paused again, it makes me sad that it’s in the state it is but it just wasn’t possible. The one good thing about the year was that in the middle of everything i did start going to gym again and i will do everything possible to be able to continue that. I did buy an occasional card and item here and there to have something nice but it took until the end of the year until i bought more cards and made some progress with my binders. However, life is shaky and things took again some bad turns and i’m now basically just trying to get through everything with minimal damage but i’ve mostly paused buying cards again for some time. I do hope i can continue the hobby life relatively soon as it gives me a lot of much needed joy but i at least have a good bunch of cards to post and threads to update meanwhile. It isn’t far’fetched to say it was the worst year of my life but at least there still were some good things in it, kids and their sicknesses were a nuisance but naturally also the biggest source of joy and unforgettable moments, and it didn’t hurt to get some nice cards.

[rtas]

Sorry to hear man, I hope this year is a different story. I’ll be rooting for you!

[mrbubbles]

Oww very sorry to hear about your rough year Jopo. I wish you and your family a healthier and happier new year. Hopefully lots of peace of mind and the simple things that make you guys happy, I am sure it will turn out to be great.

Cheers!

[niece]

Hoping that you find some peace and easier times.

[RickTheBeast]

What exclusives does Australia have?

[ragingkraken]

08-P001 thru 08-P004 for the Ruby/Sapphire cards. Only way to get those cards in English. Otherwise, it’s Japan only for those promos.