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Reassessing My Priorities

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New year, new me. Yes, I know that's cliche and lame, but that's how I am approaching my collecting in 2020. It was about 4 1/2 years ago that I dug my sports cards out of the basement and took some time to go through them. In that time, I discovered many retail possibilities for accumulating new cards. I could get them at Target, Walmart and even Walgreens. I started buying a lot of baseball cards, a good amount of football cards and some basketball cards. Then, I discovered Twitter's card community. It drug me in even deeper. I started buying for buying's sake, and suddenly I have piles upon piles of cards to sort. And this is AFTER I SORTED ALL MY BASEBALL CARDS. Sorry for the all caps, but it was that realization that made me reassess what it is I want out of this hobby. Accumulating numbers isn't it. Also new to my interests is that the spousal unit and I have decided to really crack down on a budget in 2020. We really want to wipe out some debt so