What Goals Have You Completed This Year?

[cooltrainertony]

What goals have you completed this year? I feel like this was touched upon in the premature 2024 goals thread, however I thought it made sense to create a separate thread to reflect.

My main goal for the year was to get a Ken Sugimori autograph! I unfortunately did not meet this goal but was able to add some great cards to my collection!

Another goal I had was to collect more psa 9 ex cards. I did manage to buy a couple, however I probably only added <5 this year. When i make my 2024 goals I will need to set a better metric.

Let’s hear how everyone else’s goals went!

[DragonClasher]

Cynthia full arts in 3 Languages and starting a 4th now:

Started Traditional Chinese:

-Got Best of XY Karen (PSA 9 and Binder copy)

• Got Clean copy of Karen’s Umbreon (now have a clean one and a damaged/scratched up one)

• Got Zinnia full arts(including alt art and CSR) in Thai/English/Japanese/(Indonesian only Ray V alt currently, Simplified only Zinnia full art, Traditional Chinese only Rayquaza V alt and CSR)

• Got Dendra full arts in Thai/English/Japanese

• Got Klara full art in Thai/English/Japanese (Slowly working on getting the rainbows only have in Thai)

• Got most/almost(missing TM02 from VS and WCS deck Karen) all Karen cards in English/Japanese/(Thai only have Full Arts and CSRs due to when Thai got introduced)

-Gardenia page done in Japanese

• Got a lot of Cynthia stuff (so much to list)

Uh thats all i can remember for now lol

[Charizard1020]

I had sold a shadowless charizard back in 2021/22 to a card shop. Used the money to buy a card I didn’t like because I got fomo.

Turned out the guy who owned the shop still had the shadowless charizard and ended up trading him the card I bought out of fomo for the psa 8 shadowless charizard I had originally sold to them back in 2021. Got some cash with the charizard in the trade too so it worked out

This card has so much sentimental significance for me.

With that trade I started my shadowless holo set which I’m 5/16 cards in now

[wooltchi]

I finally completed my first set (ex ruby sapphire) out of my goal of completing all sets from base to power keepers. I’m always jumping around with collecting so it might be awhile until the next set is complete. Although im getting close on neo revelation

[holoshedinja]

I completed 2 sets!

But then I started 15 more…

[inertgeometry]

Lasik

as for pokemon, just keeping up with the ARs was my only sort of goal (nothing really too concrete set). however, I did finally pick up the ray star which i’ve been pushing off for a couple years now which feels great.

[rabby250]

This is the year of wrapping up SWSH so quite a lot for me.

• Major achievement: all 334 indexed Japanese S-P promos in PSA 10

All 334 Numbered Japanese S-P Promo Completed in PSA 10

I collect promos along with the stories behind every one of them. And after more than 3 years I’ve finally collected every numbered Japanese promo released during the Sword and Shield era in PSA 10. Think I’m gonna be the only person who would complete this for a long time since very few people would spend money on a whole bunch of Energies. Collection rules: Must obtain the raw card and submit to PSA to get the 10 myself. Must get all variants of each card. (Fortunately of all numbered on…

• All Full Art and Rainbow S-P promos in Traditional Chinese (20 cards), Thai (11 cards) and Indonesia (11 cards) in PSA 10

日本のマーケット部分 The Giant Japanese Market Thread

Yes and (in some sense) yes. For Asian S-P promos, I apparently didn’t go for PSA 10 by index as I did with Japanese as some of them are surprisingly difficult to fill in - for example, Indonesia had their S-Ps filled with large amounts of plain copies of set cards which is tedious to complete, and some cards didn’t even have their releases confirmed. The current goal I set and achieved was all the Full Art and Rainbow Rare-equivalent S-P promos in Traditional Chinese, Thai and Indonesian: Tr…

• All Japanese Full Art Supporter cards in SWSH in PSA 10, including Rainbows
• All Japanese Alt Arts in SWSH in PSA 10 (pre-SAR)
• All Japanese Gold Full Art cards in SWSH in PSA 10
• All Japanese CSRs in SWSH in PSA 10 (also had all SARs in 10s, but some of them had debris in slabs and sent back to PSA for reholdering, so I’m not claiming that until I got them back safe)

As for SV-Ps, managed to get the 50-copy Charizard VMAXes from Thailand and Indonesia.

Apparently next year won’t be as fruitful as this year since we’re still in SV year one, but I’m looking forward to see what exciting cards we’re aiming for next year.

[xileets]

Completed my Team rocket 1st edition, finally. Ironically, I needed a “Challenge!” lol. An obvious ultd. card just sitting there for years. ironically, or fittingly named.

I completed 151, and I have to say, that this year, I really got away from collecting. I was focusing more on the investing side, and didn’t realize till 151 that I had strayed from my course.

I’ve done some wonderful things with my MtG Lands collection, however, and I’m eager to share… gotta find a better picture-taking setup first. The same for my artist collections.

But truly, the biggest goal I completed this year was getting my Sec+ and starting work on the new career.

[Pkmnhawaii_collector]

What was the card?

[Kijamon]

As a minimum I have achieved a goal of having every Raichu card graded in English as I sent the last batch in to PSA a few weeks ago.

Hopefully I pull of the 9’s as I also want them all to be mint as that’ll finish the mission off entirely.

Took me 15 months to get to this point which is not too bad for 150+ cards.

[KabutopsMaster]

Finally went 100% on my english eeveelution collection, apart from some cameo cards that are almost impossible to get

[eeveeteam]

Impossible too expensive for the same artwork

[Death_Less]

Hi! long time pokefan, renewed collector and new member! after rediscovering my collection earlier this year i have been fortunate enough to complete base and rocket so far this year! i am currently working on neo genesis. happy collecting to all in the new year!

[quibble]

I finally completed my 1999 binder by collecting every set card from Base, Jungle & Fossil via the way nature intended.

Since deciding to complete the original sets I’d started as a child, I thought it’d be more fun to slowly finish them using the same methods we all acquired our cards during the 90’s; trading & random deals that popped up in person. It took so much longer than just outright buying the missing cards (about 7 years), and conditions aren’t all perfect, but it’s been an absolute blast to do, and really feels like I authentically “caught them all”.

[codytcas]

Congrats! That’s a really cool way to do it.

[cooltrainertony]

Neo is fun!

[KabutopsMaster]

i would agreed to disagree that theyre almost impossible.
i am yet to see anything above semi finalist out there

[Charizard1020]

I will be disliked for this but it was a psa 8 skyridge crystal charizard holo. One of the ugliest charizards ever. Huge regret ever getting that card

[eeveeteam]

Ah, I haven’t been watching for them. I just assummed since a quick search provided staff, top 32, top 16, quarterfinalists and semi-finaiists, that the finalists and champion would be easy enough with time

[quibble]

Thanks! It would’ve been so much less of a slog to just pick up all the missing NM singles online, but it’s nice to feel like I completed the master sets in the exact way that I would have if I’d achieved it all those years ago.