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Your Collecting Goals For 2018

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Posted 03/04/2018   2:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Ursa to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi, everyone:

Was just curious as to what your collecting goals might be for 2018.

I also collect coins, and found the hobby frustrating (as well as frightfully expensive) until I set attainable goals for my numismatic collection, then achieved them. Now that I've completed my coin collection--to my great joy and satisfaction, I might add--I am doing the same with stamps.

My goals for 2018:

1. Mount all my current philatelic material on Steiner pages. Working country-by-country in alphabetical order, I am currently on the Chinese Empire.

2. If I am able to complete item 1 before the year is up, I'll mount my USA duplicates into my no-longer-needed WW albums, and then dispose of them on eBay--or perhaps here on SCF.

3. If I am able to complete item 2 before the year is up, I'll work on completing the worldwide definitive sets that are already in my collection.

4. If I am able to complete item 3 before the year is up (unlikely), I'll work on acquiring 20th century worldwide definitive sets that are not yet in my collection.

So...what are you planning for 2018?
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Posted 03/04/2018   3:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I will be looking for more pre 1913 destination mail from New South Wales to countries I haven't yet acquired. Either covers or postcards.
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Posted 03/04/2018   4:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampcrow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A trip to the Philatelic Foundation. Have some things I would like them to look at. Maybe get certificates.
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Posted 03/04/2018   4:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Organize the stuff I have.
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Posted 03/04/2018   4:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
My goals for 2018 are pretty much the same as 2016 and 2017...

1. To fight cancer and stay alive
2. To be a patient advocate at my dialysis center
3. To develop and contribute to Stamp Smarter
4. To contribute as Mod in this community

Don
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Posted 03/04/2018   4:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The first two I will help you with, by means of my prayers. The other two - if you keep going the way you have: You ain't got a thing to worry about!

Peter
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Posted 03/04/2018   4:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jkjblue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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My goals for 2018 are pretty much the same as 2016 and 2017...

1. To fight cancer and stay alive
2. To be a patient advocate at my dialysis center
3. To develop and contribute to Stamp Smarter
4. To contribute as Mod in this community


Don - this is for you. I admire your fierce will and your accomplishments in the face of adversity.

Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Posted 03/04/2018   4:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ursa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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My goals for 2018 are pretty much the same as 2016 and 2017...

1. To fight cancer and stay alive
2. To be a patient advocate at my dialysis center
3. To develop and contribute to Stamp Smarter
4. To contribute as Mod in this community

Don

Worthy goals indeed, Don. My prayers and well wishes are with you.

It's amazing what a hobby can do to enhance well-being in the midst of a medical crisis. Myself, I endured a stroke in 2007 that left me unable to engage in my favourite pastime then: playing brasswind instruments, notably the tuba. Out of sheer desperation, I dug my old clarinet out of the closet, and to my delight, discovered that I could still physically manage that--and used it to rehab my slightly paralyzed right hand. I became a bit of a clarinet collector, too!
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Posted 03/04/2018   5:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you all for the kind words and prayers. Ursa, yes indeed. I did not want to continue to collect and add to the disposition that my wife will be faced with; so being able to combine philately and technology has proven to be a true blessing for me. I have been able to give a little bit back to the hobby that has given so much to me and I have been able to stay involved with a great community of like-minded friends.
Don
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Posted 03/04/2018   5:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Walkman82 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Don, my thoughts and prayers are with you as well. What state do you live in? Medical cannabis in varying ratios has done wonders for some cancers. We moved from Texas to Colorado last year to give it to our autistic/epileptic son on a daily basis and it has been life changing. If you'd like to know more, please PM or email me.

My goals for 2018:

1. Digitize my entire collection by scanning in all pages.
2. Create a website to display my own collection and allow others to upload theirs free of charge.
3. Continue to fill in my collection of U.S. definitive (all series), commemoratives (1893-1940ish), back of book (all but revenues at this point), and plate number coils.
4. Visit the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library (living 15 minutes away and still haven't been).
5. Contribute and be an active member of SCF as much as I can.
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Posted 03/04/2018   6:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ursa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
1. Digitize my entire collection by scanning in all pages.
2. Create a website to display my own collection and allow others to upload theirs free of charge.
3. Continue to fill in my collection of U.S. definitive (all series), commemoratives (1893-1940ish), back of book (all but revenues at this point), and plate number coils.
4. Visit the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library (living 15 minutes away and still haven't been).
5. Contribute and be an active member of SCF as much as I can.
Now, that's ambitious!

I've long considered scanning my pages and creating an online album as well...remember GeoCities back in the '90s? Alas, my frustration with affordable WW albums led to a long hiatus in collecting--though I guess I could've scanned and presented my USA collection.
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Posted 03/04/2018   6:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Climber Steve to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Not a goal just for 2018, but......... I've given myself until attainment of age 70 in September, 2019 to have all collections organized; hinged or mounted; and any needed filing done. A lot of material will get pitched; either cheap stuff to the local recycling places; or some better stuff to the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library. Clippings get organized or discarded. I am allowed to continue to add some things, but only into primary collections, which means no more purchase of collections.
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Posted 03/04/2018   7:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Stampman2002 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
My goals are pretty similar to others.

(1) Continuing organizing what I have.
(2) Start selling off what I don't need.
(3) Continue writing articles for USSS and other groups.
(4) Continue reading, learning and supporting this community!
(5) Above all, keep Don in my prayers.
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Posted 03/04/2018   7:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add amccleaf1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Don, wishing you all the best. This goes for others struggling with medical or physical issues.

My goals for 2018:
1. Accumulate less, mount more
2. Process and mount the accumulations of Switzerland, Japan and Uruguay I have on hand.
3. Attend NAPEX and focus on the exhibits and filling a few tougher holes
4. Find more covers postmarked at towns along my beloved Ma&Pa railroad (started with Felton, PA this year)
5. Get my 7-1-71 covers into some semblance of order, by state.

Tough, but FUN!
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Posted 03/04/2018   8:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ursa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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My goals for 2018:
1. Accumulate less, mount more
I'm with you there. I had pledged to myself not to obtain any new material until everything I already have is in perfect order.

However, an unplanned trip to Hobby Lobby with a friend a couple of weeks ago resulted in a green Harris bag of 300 stamps-on-paper somehow following me home. Hadn't bought a Harris sack o'stamps since the very early 1980s--back when you'd get about 100 2 peseta Francos, 75 3 pence Machins, 40 damaged stamps, and maybe 10 keeper stamps out of the lot. The lot I just bought has maybe 120 keepers, with a nice selection of recent issues from Germany. I was pleasantly surprised.
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Posted 03/04/2018   8:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Amongst so many other things to do I want to attend the Siegel William Gross auction in September. It will be one of those landmark sales that become a part of philatelic history.
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