How Did You Do On Your 2012 Collecting Goals

2012 isn't over yet!

I did well really... I learnt a lot this year anyway since I tried my first batch of uncleaned coins (failed to yield anything good but the experience taught me a thing or two)

I added about 20 decent banknotes to my collection and 10 decent coins and about 50 modern cheapies to my collection.

I am still missing a couple of notes to complete my American type folder (but these are not cheap notes and I am not in any hurry to buy them) and I am still missing a couple of notes to complete my British banknotes cashier signature collection but thats OK.

Generally I changed my outlook now, my collection is no longer based around sets, I have started using mylar flips and collecting in a different way and I started my first baby steps in collecting ancient coins, which I have found very interesting indeed.

True. Time to go into overdrive!

i started collecting coins in november 2011, so I've only been collecting a year...but I've been going crazy buying all sorts of stuff I wouldn't have dreamed i'd have in my desk back in october 2011!

my goal of the rest of the year is actually not to buy any more coins! hope I make it! (i have some bid on ebay now..but after that...no more till January).

After reading about all the purchases the CCF members are making, I'm thinking about being a Santa Claus to myself. I'm going back to the coin shop this Friday. I try to keep it to bi-weekly and I was just there last week!

I partially finished this already... I'm going to remake it with better materials when I can find them cheap.

I entered the game during the spring, and spent untold dozens of hours reading CCH threads. The single most important thing I ever read was a statement about the importance of establishing specific collecting goals--and by extension, a plan to proceed toward achievement of those goals. So, I chose precise collecting activities and set carefully defined limits. My only real goal for this year was to stick with those activities/limits and thereby (hopefully) avoid making any costly mistakes.

I stuck almost entirely with the chosen activities and stayed almost entirely inside the limits, but still made some mistakes. Got a few quality learning experiences from them, and thankfully none of them caused any significant financial damage. In addition, spot value increases in the last 6 months have already more than erased the minor financial damage caused by the mistakes. Never collected anything else before where that happened!

So - I guess I achieved my goal for the year.

My goal, activities and limits will be staying the same, so the odds of making mistakes should theoretically be continuously decreasing over time. With luck, I should finish next year the same way I'm finishing this year.

I finished my wheatie set other than the back of a steelie. I have almost finished the nickel album other than a 1950. As for the Presidential dollars, got a few more for dansco. Gotta get a new nickel album and more 2X2s.