State of the Blog

I only had two blog posts in August. That is a tie for the lowest amount of posts I've ever done in a month. There are a couple of reasons for this. The same reasons that we all experience from time to time; a lack of time and money.

In early April I was laid off and so while I had more time to blog, I didn't have the funds to purchase cards. I realize that you don't have to buy cards to have something to blog about, but it does help.

While I was unemployed I took advantage of my extra free time and did a thorough reorganization of my entire collection. I went through roughly 25,000 basketball cards and 80,000 baseball cards. Here is a brief breakdown of how I organized the baseball.

• Hall of Famers sorted alphabetically
• Diamondbacks sorted alphabetically
• Paul Goldschmidt sorted by brand
• Star Players sorted alphabetically
• TTM an In-Person Autographs sorted alphabetically
• Pulled out cards for future TTM requests
• Started a new name collection (anybody with the name Daniel or Wilson)
• Started Player Collections of Doc Gooden, Don Mattingly, and Dale Murphy
• All other cards sorted by team

After almost 4 months of being out of work I found a great job and have been there for about a month and a half now I'm really enjoying it, but I had to take a significant pay cut and the hours are different and the commute it longer, so now I don't have a lot of time or money for the hobby.

But like I said before, I know you don't have to have a ton of money, or time for that matter, to keep a blog going strong. It just takes some effort and a desire to keep it going, and that I have.