what have I created?

When I started down the path of getting books graded by CGC, I initially had decided that I would get books graded for resale (obviously) but that I would also try to build runs for my own personal collections. I have held true to form on the first part but it is the second that I now realize I haven't been doing as much as I should.

As I was cleaning house preparing for this season's thanksgiving get-together at my house, I started realizing that I have a lot of books in short boxes that I have been setting aside to one day get graded. When I started on the society, my first goal was to collect X Men books in 9.8... so I started a short box for that. Then I started also building a Deadpool run of the 97 series... so I started a short box for that. Then I found some sweet looking Amazing Spiderman books from the eightes... so there's a box of those. Then I came across a wherehouse find of the whole Harley Quinn series, so there's also a short box of those. There's also boxes of misc books that would grade out in 9.6/9.8, and the newest box, of Uncanny X-Force books... sessh.

I took a step back and looked at all these boxes and thought, "what the hell am I doing?" and "When am I going to get all of these graded?". To be truthful to myself, I have no clue how long it would take me to get these thousand or so books graded eventually. I do know it would take me a ton of cash. I did a dummy invoice of 100 books just for giggles and it was just under 2 large!!! A pre-screen would help, but I know how to grade as well and I haven't been far off on any of my submissions, so I'm confident in how I do my own pre-screen... so it'll likely cost me 2 large per each 100 sent it. sessh...

Therefore it might be time to abandon some of these goals. I would like to build the Harely Quinn set since it seems NOBODY has yet to build a significant one and per the census, there are multiple issues with only one or no issues in 9.8 at all. I think I would easily have the best set there and probably for some time to come. Also the Uncanny X-Force I am going to continue to build since it is new and would be easy to maintain and stay on top of. The Deadpool 97 series I think I will also continue because of its realitive size and I already have most of the key issues in 9.8, so the rest should be a peice of cake. That leaves me with Amazing Spiderman, X-Men, and the misc books. The misc books there's no rush on, and I can trim that down to focus on post graded value. If it's not worth it, then it's not worth it. So which gets the ax, spidey or the mutants? I guess I have to chop the X-Men because the Spidey books tend to have more post graded value. But who knows, maybe I'll eventually get them all graded at some point in the future.

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