2020 has been such a roller coaster year so far. Most of it has been a lot of downside, but there have been a few positives I try to poke from it. But, when it comes to my hobby way of life, it seems there is one kick in the face after another thanks to Covid-19 and my collecting way of life.
With that being said, I am announcing the end of Sport Card Collectors blog is near such as I teased on July 4th. After much thought, consideration, back and forth with myself, and many signs, I have finally come to that conclusion. It's been a couple year decision and this year finally felt like the right time.I mean unless something DRASTICALLY changes, and I mean it would have to be drastic to save it at this point.
What does this mean exactly? I feel 2020 has played a role in my posts on here. My content is no longer interesting, my view numbers and comments tell me that. I can also feel it myself with the passion I no longer to have to post on here. I feel like its becoming more of a job to keep up with posting then it is for fun which is hurting my content. I also won't have a lot of new content down the road with less and less cards incoming expected as some things have changed to cause that and with no incoming reviews (except a very few recently I have posted over at Cards Over Coffee), that doesn't help either.
So I have put a end date of the 5,000th post on this blog as the end. I can't exactly pinpoint a date as sometimes I do more than one post a day on here.
It's not just this blog circumstances themselves causing this decision either. I have found myself using all of my free time to blog and neglecting the hobby I blog about. I have a huge mess in my card area that could really use my assistance so I think the less I am on here the better for that as well.
(This is only a third of the disaster)
I even made a list of sorting projects for myself, it's a long road ahead as you can see and this is only a few of them.
What does this mean for my other blogs and myself blogging? The Rodney Hampton one, Snagging Cardboard and Sets Talk will also come to an end for good with this one. I am not fully retiring from blogging however. You can't get rid of me that easily!!
Cards Over Coffee, I Have been suggesting you go follow as it's a blog I have created and become quite fond of. I think it has my best writing, most creativity, and is a fun one that shows off my personality more. That will be my one and only blog with brand spankin' new posts. However, posts won't be daily like on there as I put a lot of effort in each post and I don't want to take away from anything I have created there. They will be when I can squeeze one in type of posts as I go along. That could mean once a week, twice, or maybe once every couple of weeks.
What does this mean for trading and will I be posting mail days? Nothing changes with trading as I am still collecting and my address is still the same for you that have it. I will be on Twitter and still have my email and will be actively trading, as long as everyone still wants to. As for posting mail days, unless I can create a way to do so on Cards Over Coffee with a segment or something (once again trying not to take away from what I have done there and definitely don't want I got this type of posts) I will probably just tweet it out or send a thank you note if you have email. I will have to see what the mail day is first and whether I can create some content around it. In the meantime though, any mail day I get from here til the end of this blog will be posted on here.
There is still roughly 40+ posts left to this blog so a little ways to go. I can't promise how the content will be for those, as I said I don't have really anything incoming to post about, but hopefully I can end the blog in a good way.
This hasn't been an easy decision and I am not one to usual take a risk and change things, but I think it will be for the best. Thanks again for those of you who have been reading from the beginning, middle and maybe even the end this year. I will have much more to say in the finale post but for now will leave this as it is.