Getting so close,

But yet I feel like I have so far to go to complete my Super Set. While looking for some cards for some trades I'm working on(Sorry guys, I'm slow), I tried to make sure of what I had for myself. I was finishing updating mt spreadsheet checklists and working on getting the cards in their binders. I decided to work up the numbers and see how close I was to completing this monster. I have to say with help of a few buys here and there, the generosity of the blog world, had really helped me on this.

 

If my math is right, for just base and traded sets from the five big makers (Donruss, Fleer, Score, Topps, and Upper Deck) there is 3,211 Mariners cards available from 1977 to 2010. As of last night I counted myself as owning 2,689 of those cards. That means I only need 522 cards, not counting what comes out for 2011, to finish this masterpiece. Of course there is the small task of also still trying to collect the 18 Seattle Pilots cards I need from the 1969 and 1970 Topps sets.  I'm sure with the help of you great guys and ladies out there, I might actually get this done this year.

Organization skills

Thanks to having done the recaps of all the major players in card making, I got organized. I was already fairly organized with my Mariners cards, but now I'm starting to actually get on the right track. As I was finding cards to show you guys, I was able to binder many of the cards that have come to me in trades in the last year. The next step of the process was to finish and update my checklist spreadsheets. Mission accomplished last night.

Now comes the decision of what to do with extra Mariners cards, and what do with cards that are from oddball makers, subsets, inserts etc. What would my fellow bloggers do? Would you binder them, would you put them in boxes in chronological order and set them aside? I really want to get my Mariners cards finished organized and then work on trying to organize the rest of my cards by team to ease the hassle of finding cards when I trying to set up trades with everyone. Let me know what everyone thinks they would do in my predicament, I'm open to all suggestions...

Yes or no??

Did everyone enjoy yesterday's little trip down the road of cards and Beatles?? I hope so, it was fun to do. Let me know if you can think of some other associations we could put together.