Have You Set Collecting Goals For 2022 ?

There's been a varied and ambitious list of to-do items for 2022. Thank you for sharing your mindsets. It makes me feel less overwhelmed with the miscellaneous tasks on my list.

Make an effort to thoroughly enjoy the collection, arrangement and just the utter enjoyment of our fantastiv hobby.
also enloy a nice Laphroiag when the opportunity arises.

Happy New Year to everyone

Steve

My collecting goals for 2022:
-Mount more, accumulate less
-Write in / review my hobby journal more frequently (wrote in it in December, the previous entry was from LAST December)
-Update my inventory of the country I am working on, even if I only add one item (eventually they'll all be up to date, right?)
-Donate / trade / sell / give away duplicates that have been processed
-Go to more stamp shows (NAPEX and at least 2 others) and avoid purchasing duplication by referencing my (updated) country inventories on Onedrive using my phone
-Take a Tuesday off and spend it at my favorite stamp shop in Richmond, VA
-Further populate my Machin collection

It's going to be a good year.

I have an 1847 collection, an 1851 collection (most of my $$$ goes into those two issues), a first issue Revenue collection, a Christmas Seal collection, a Lebanon Collection, a Saudi Arabia collection, and (of course) a Big Blue WW collection, plus I like to buy stamps (not from any of the listed categories) that just look pretty. I am not even going to talk too much about my astrophotography, genealogy, or model railroading hobbies. All that, plus a full-time job means something's got to give. My goal for 2022 is to simplify. I need to focus my energies on fewer things from these lists. Not necessarily to dump the stuff, but maybe more along the lines of setting some of them aside or just hanging on to them as they currently are. Of all these things, I am finding myself buying WW or country collections/accumulations in order to 'bolster' my Big Blue WW collection - of course I have loads of crapola left over. AND, I am currently re-ordering my WW albums and installing glassine interleaving and hole re-enforcements. Why do I do that????? I am sure my ex-wife can tell me. Get it?? Anyway, simplify and consolidate are the buzzwords for 2022.

ETA: Maybe the answer is to dump the job. Don't think I haven't considered early retirement as an answer to my conundrum.

My goals:
- finalize my Machin pages. I have a draft done in AlbumEasy but vacillating about varieties to include since collect beyond SG Concise.
- spend more timing reading many of the sections of the Deegam Machin handbook.
- start my stamp for every country collection from material I have from countries I do not pro-actively collect
- continue adding to my mostly British Empire collection. I started collections for Indochina and region later to 1975

Downsizing for one, started last year, not sure why I needed 100 of a common US stamp. Going through a box of stamps a co worked gave me from his Grandpa, been sitting under my desk for a year. They are in various states, two WW albums, plastic tubs, envelopes and Fleetwood Covers WW

1 - Consolidate the 4 or 5 general worldwide albums into my good Scott Internationals.
1A - get rid of the leftovers
If I have any time left
2 - Start buying individual countries collections vs. general collections.
3 - Make some want lists
4 - Use the stamp club meetings to fill in those want lists.

Great thread

I plan to:

1. Finish organizing my collections from China
2. Re organise my Book shelves and albums
3. Start a new give away to reduce my accumulation of spares
4. Start visiting this site more (it's been a hectic 2 years)

Dianne

My goal is to finish the remounting project (excluding the U.S.) for whatever I have that is listed in Scott Classic 1840-1940 (which includes British Commonwealth to 1952). I also want to include French related colonies/territories through various dates in the 1940s depending on country. I have been looking ahead (post 1940) for every county to try and find good break points, such as independence or some other change in government. This is probably another 15K to 20K stamps to mount. Then it will be nice to sit back and enjoy for a while before starting a new project.

Thanks for sharing everyone. I hope we get many more contributors to this thread.

I'd like to finish up the Americas in my "One Unused 19th-Century Postal Card from Everywhere" collection. I'm pretty close to reaching that goal, but two of the cards that I still need will probably cost significantly more than what I've spent on any card in this collection so far.

My stamp collecting goals are to:

1) bring my collection of stamps home from where they are currently stored,

2) put the stamps into several stock books (they are currently sorted by country each within its own envelope),

3) acquire stamp collecting software and set it up to start cataloging my stamps,

4) decide whether I want to stay with a worldwide collection or focus on a smaller area to collect in.

Thank you for this thread, it helps to write my goals down.

Julie

I will be doing the same as I have the last few years.

I'll be hoping that numeral cancellations might turn up for my two main collections.

I will say it gets a little harder with each passing year!

That and doing what I can to help out here of course

I've tried to make a concerted effort to flip through all of Billig's a few times in the past, just to familiarize myself with the contents, and I never make it more than a few volumes in. Usually, I run off to another resource to dig deeper on some interesting topic, or go looking for a stamp. I'd like to make it through. Probably won't.

I am going to drastically reduce my spending. In the last two years I've spent more money on new material than all of my other years of collecting combined. Thanks to easy access auctions and my clicker finger. I will spend more time organizing and examining what I have. There are things buried away that I haven't looked at in 10 years.