NEW BLOG! Check It Out! (Plus Notes)

Yes, I know I have stated on here a few times about over-blogging and how I take on way too many projects, well, hopefully I haven't made that choice again as I have created yet another blog. I know, you guys can start to yell at me.

After having 3 failed attempts at running a second blog, I do believe this time is different. This is new blog is a blog specifically for my Super Collecting of Rodney Hampton and it won't have new posts daily (least I don't think so) like this one. That will take a lot of the pressure away as this blog remains my top priority. That may change later on as I may decide to dedicate my time to that one over this one. We will see.

Hampton's Cardboard Craze will be a "if I have time I will squeeze a post in" type of blog. I see other bloggers take this approach as well and it should work for me like it does for them.

Here is the first post that I just posted on there today. Check it out as it explains what the blog will be about.

Introduction To The Hampton Cardboard Craze

Hopefully it will grab some of your attention as I know many of the bloggers/readers that follow me are mainly baseball fanatics. I have been working on this blog for over a month slowly adding things and ideas I might do and wanted to make sure I did it right before I released it. I plan on getting a few posts put together on it soon that way I start to get some content on there.

By now you are probably wondering what I meant "plus notes",well, those are about this blog.I have been noticing a few changes in terms of this blog viewings on here to see what is interesting to you guys and what doesn't work. That will be taken into consideration for changes I may make later on as I hope to have more NEW content/stories by April. I have plenty of fresh ideas to add in. For now, the stuff I have been posting is from Sept-Dec that I am way behind on. Yup, you are reading older posts and it will stay that way til a little after March.

Another thing I wanted to note is that I have also been tearing through and sorting like mad in my collection as I have been re-doing the way I sorted things. It's a lot, and I mean A LOT, of work to undo a collection to re-organize it all over whether you have 200 cards or 2,000 cards or even 200,000 cards. I have finally decided to do everything by team instead of by brand, year and number and tearing that apart was heartbreaking at first, but a relief after I dug in. I will put together a post on this BIG project at some point.

I have had fun being able to take time out to re-sort and seeing some of the cards I have picked up over the years. I must also say I am glad in more than one way I made the choice to re-organize as I found some cards that will make for some great posts later on when things are caught up.

I hope everyone has a great rest of their week and hope you have enjoyed recent posts on here. Thanks for reading and please give the new blog a look (follow, link add) and leave me your thoughts.

BONUS!!!
HOBBY TOPIC:
How many of you have ever re-done the way you sort and how did that go for you? Do you regret it? Let's hear it!

NEW to Friday's Posts!

With the lack of product previews available to me, I have decided to do away with Product Preview Friday. It is too hard to chase them down and to find ones that are on time and not late. So in exchange will be the NEW Poll Day. I will be posting a new poll every Friday, starting in March (from now until the end of February will be a very busy time for me so some posts will be fillers for days that I can't post that days scheduled post, so that's why the decision was to wait til March), off to the right side of the blog. And your feedback will make up the post. SO PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE!

There will be a variety of topics ranging from who's autograph would you want more to what company is putting out the best products. And on every Friday I will post the results from the previous poll along with the new poll that will be posted on the blog. I think this would be a great way to interact with you guys and see what your collecting thoughts are.

On another note, the new segments on the blog are working well. The most popular being Caption This with the least favorite being Featured NY Giants Card. And by least favorite, it doesn't mean it's too far off from being a favorite.  I also have other topics to incorporate as well, just haven't gotten to them yet. But I do have some break 'ems coming up with retail, hobby and retro breaks.  And hope to focus on the Basics segment soon too. Possibly in March as well.

As for the cleaning off the blog process, I decided because of blogspots restrictions (only 50 posts at a time can be deleted and I have over 900 which might take a week) that all posts will stay. Which also means goodbye to Sport Card Collectors Archives. I really wanted a fresh start, but I guess in some ways I still got it even though all of the older posts still exist.

I would enjoy any feedback that you have about the new setup and what topics are your favorite and least favorite or maybe you enjoy them all. And thoughts about the new topic Poll Day.

Thanks as always for the support!