- Accumulate Cubs cards faster than they come out (to make up for past years I missed).
- Get and stay organized.
When we bought our house a couple years ago, I took over the very small room for my office/den/mancave. A lot of my autograph collection is signed books. I worked in a bookstore for quite a while and picked up a bunch of them through book signings in my store or other contacts in the industry.
Then, I started picking up cards again last year and my wife stressed that she didn't want to just look at a bunch of white boxes. As a good husband, I agreed. Plus I wanted to be able to look at them easily so I put them into binders.
I'm sure its the same with most of you, but my wife is generally a lot more supportive of the second goal than the first. Occasionally she'll ask to see what I got in the mail but I'm pretty sure she doesn't actually care. She has no idea what I have or don't have or want when it comes to baseball cards. So when she asked if there was anything I wanted particularly for Father's Day, I went easy on her and gave her an idea that would help with Goal #2. Win-win.
I'm still a new kid on the block when it comes to the blogosphere but I think I came up with a pretty revolutionary idea for being able to keep a closer eye on my cards. The product itself isn't new but I haven't seen or heard of anybody else using them for this purpose. So now that I have over-hyped it to the point where it can only disappoint, I am going to insert a very rarely used "jump" and make you click to see it.
