December was, unsurprisingly, a big month. It always is, as Christmas is traditionally the biggest day of the year for me card wise. 2025 was no different. But more than just Christmas, I also bought a couple of boxes during the Black Friday sales that arrived in December, and they were FILLED with new people. I got three Non-sports boxes and a PWHL blaster, in which almost every single player was new. I also did plenty of scanning, including starting to scan some of my Christmas additions.
I scanned 393 cards in December and of them, 67 were new people never before scanned...and there's some HUGE names in here in non-sports. Benjamin Franklin. William Shakespeare. Annie Oakley. The list goes on. I LOVE non-sports cards but don't have access to too many of them, and most modern cards are movie and TV based, which do not generally give cards to people, so the historical sets from Pieces of the Past are really important to my collection. Of note- the John Dickinson card is 1/1. He is currently the only person in my collection who is represented by only a 1/1 card and no others. He was pretty important to the early history of Pennsylvania and Maryland and one of only a handful of signers of the Constitution to fight in the Revolution.
New people added was even more full.
123 new people came out of 1252 new cards in the month, more than half of them coming on Christmas day. More than a few appear in the new people scanned as well. Both new people and total new cards was actually less than November but more than half of all my 2025 additions came to me in the last two months of the year. 2899 of 4770 over the last two months, 1871 in the first 10 months combined. That's unusual, December almost always sees a bump but most years are higher throughout the first 10 months. I'm not complaining, just keeping track and I find it very interesting.
I will be curious to see what 2026 holds. I have no specific goals for the year, whatever happens happens but I will be keeping this series of posts going because like I said, I find it interesting.
It IS interesting and I always learn new things from your posts.
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