Wantlists take forever!

[tkraft24]

Anyone else that collects a team or player create a comprehensive wantlist? Is it worth the pain?!?!?

I'm beyond the point of return but curious about others experiences with this. I used to just keep track of the cards I owned in an Excel spreadsheet but found myself always getting behind. That got me thinking that it might be better to make a complete wantlist so then I would just have to delete from the list as cards come in. Plus, the list also highlights all of the common, easy-to-find cards that are missing from my Indians collection.

I started this list a year ago and have just gotten back into it the past week or so. My goal is to have it completed for the National so I can quickly reference it while digging through cheap boxes. I have all the heavy lifting done but still have to complete 2004 and back. I'll also have to swing back around to 2018 for newer sets. Sets from the past 5 years or so were the most annoying as the number of parallels have gone up considerably.

Pain in the butt, can't wait to be done, but this should be a huge help for me.

For now, I'm just hosting it on a free website:
https://shinycardboard.weebly.com

[Hollywood42]

Big fan of doing it the way you're describing, but it does take absolutely forever

[tkraft24]

Big fan of doing it the way you're describing, but it does take absolutely forever

I used to always think that Mets collector (Mike, I think?) on the bench was crazy for doing it this way but now I see the light!

Worst part is finding incomplete team checklists on Beckett so I usually cross-check with comc inventories.

[bobthewondercat]

Rodney Choy Foo!!!

[tkraft24]

Rodney Choy Foo!!!

Basically the cover boy of homegrown talent in the farm system for all of the 2000’s. Not sure there’s been a worse decade of drafting/player development.

[Hollywood42]

I use Beckett when making all of mine before 2010 or so when Cardboard Connection started including teams on their checklists, and there's definitely been some that I've had strong suspicions that Beckett's lists weren't fully complete or had some sort of error. I generally decided to ignore it and type up what was there, but I'm planning on periodically auditing myself and going back through everything year by year to try and make sure I didn't miss anything

Worst part for me is spending so much time trying to make sure you have complete lists, while knowing that there's a high likelihood you never come anywhere close to getting everything you've typed up

I used to always think that Mets collector (Mike, I think?) on the bench was crazy for doing it this way but now I see the light!

Worst part is finding incomplete team checklists on Beckett so I usually cross-check with comc inventories.

[Stifle]

Anyone else that collects a team or player create a comprehensive wantlist? Is it worth the pain?!?!?

I'm beyond the point of return but curious about others experiences with this. I used to just keep track of the cards I owned in an Excel spreadsheet but found myself always getting behind. That got me thinking that it might be better to make a complete wantlist so then I would just have to delete from the list as cards come in. Plus, the list also highlights all of the common, easy-to-find cards that are missing from my Indians collection.

I started this list a year ago and have just gotten back into it the past week or so. My goal is to have it completed for the National so I can quickly reference it while digging through cheap boxes. I have all the heavy lifting done but still have to complete 2004 and back. I'll also have to swing back around to 2018 for newer sets. Sets from the past 5 years or so were the most annoying as the number of parallels have gone up considerably.

Pain in the butt, can't wait to be done, but this should be a huge help for me.

For now, I'm just hosting it on a free website:
https://shinycardboard.weebly.com

I can remember when some rookie oddball baseball cards were out in the early 90's and decided to open a dozen packs. Pulled some Manny Ramirez rookie but set it off to the side. Years later gave it away in a trade because some collector was searching for it. It became a pretty hot card.