*sits down, takes a sip and gets ready for a new Cards Over Coffee post today*
I think it's time to once again tackle the elephant in the room, and no it wasn't my .7 weight gain this morning on the scale, it's the fact I can't keep focus on one project in the hobby.
One day I will be trying to get my 90's sets filled and the next day I am trading for a gorilla card from Allen Ginter. I am all over the place and can't finish up one project.
It's not really a terrible problem as it gives me plenty of options when I collect, but it can sometimes be a little frustrating when I go back and think that I could have finished another project instead.
Like recently, I was on a roll of collecting Kerry Collins cards again and then I spotted a few cards that @cardboardfan775 posted, and all of a sudden I am back off the trail again.
But when I see my main core of Knicks players I collect, Quickley, Toppin and Barret, I couldn't pass it up.
Especially when shiny cards are involved.
And some sharp parallels from Select basketball. This final parallel is what I call the Knicks parallel.
*takes a sip, stares at the shiny*
Even this mail day didn't have a complete focus either.
I saw this Trey Lance, who is one of the final key pieces I need towards my Donruss 2021 football set and had to add that to our trade as well.
It's like I am the dog from UP.
SQUIRREL!
Thanks again to @cardboardfan775 for yet another fast, easy trade.
*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*
I am not sure where I will go from here with collecting. Do I get back up on the bike for Kerry Collins or do I get off the bike like Joe Biden and go some other direction.
I guess as long as I am having fun along the way, that's all that really matters....right?
In comments today, let me know if you have a hobby focus problem and if you need to tackle the Elephant In The Room.
*Coffee Card Blogger Out*
I definitely struggle with focus. Not just collecting, but in everyday life. That's why I try to schedule things as much as possible. In regard to collecting... I've accepted and embraced it. I'm happy that I have so many different collections, because I'll never run out of things to collect.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even touch the life stuff, I feel you there as well
Deletetotally unfocused. I must have about 100-200 projects going, finish very few, always adding more. most projects I know I will never finish. I'm not obsessed in the sense that I don't NEED cards. I just put cards on my want list, and hope to make some trades, and occasionally make an ebay purchase. As Fuji wrote "I've accepted and embraced it." I keep myself on a budget. About $20 / week. I feel like a bigger investment is not a hobby, it becomes an addiction. Bob ["abide" on TCDb / sports card forum / freedom cardboard]
ReplyDeleteTotally agree on that last part. It can be as addictive as scratch tickets and consume your life. I do this for fun and literally a hobby. I do more trading than anything else for me and that's a way I can add cards and make friendships along the way
DeleteI don't really have much focus lately either. I'm doing better at trying to organize and finish sets, but even the other day when I checked out a new card shop hoping for some mid-2000's fleer ultra hockey [as they are sets I'm working on], when the guy working there also took out regular Fleer baseball packs, I took them too. Wasn't trying to actively collect them, but if anyone has some 2006 Fleer baseball for trade...
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