General Forum

I use binders for all my cards, but I guess that makes more sense for me, since I only collect superheroes, star trek and james bond, for the most part and I don't have thousands upon thousands of sports cards like many of you guys do. I like being able to take out my cards and look at them, and Billy's stacked boxes would drive me crazy, as I would have to move everything around to get to what I want to see each time. Nothing against your methods, Billy, but that would drive me nuts.  

Shoe holders are a great way to store single lane boxes. I can store 2 boxes in each slot and even though they stick out of the slots they stay in

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mine are a little different than this but it's the same concept if it copied correctly 

One of the reasons I've been working on scanning them all is that I can look at them at any time, without having to actually get them out. I need help physically to get through them all due to my health problems. But to look through my scans? I can do that literally anywhere. 

Forgot to mention. That is my NBA collection only. The set off to the side for the end is a mix of everything. But my NASCAR, non-sports and other sports are not in that photo.

I remember you posted about this awhile ago. I love the idea and I'm going to use a shoe holder as a model when I build my shelving unit. I'm going to change the dimensions to hold 3,200 count boxes instead of shoes though ; )

I keep all my personal team and individual player collections in either boxes, binders, or in a display. If I could figure out how to post pictures I'd do it, but I don't know how.

And, Chad, if I could start a fund to eliminate the "j*** w**" term, I would! 

I store all my Topps 1952-1979 Topps Cards in an old Library card catalog I bought years ago and refinished.  Working on completing every Topps Base Set for those years (minus the '52 Mantle of course).  I have completed sets from 1968 through 1979 and have anywhere from 10-300 cards from every other year so I have a long way to go.

That looks great! I am inspired!

I live in Korea and don't know when I will leave.. so at the moment most of my Korean sets are in binders.  The players I collect and have with me are either in sleeves/toploaders or semi-rigids.  I was going to submit many of my Korean cards for grading but PSA has nothing chepaer than $7 (100 card minimum) so Im not sure they will ever get graded.

That would be me! I always warn people storing in binders to lay them flat on their backs instead of standing them up like a book. I also warn about putting them on high shelves in wooden bookcases b/c they'll warp the shelf and eventually break it.

I have MOST of my collection in binders. I have six bookcases that have binders in them. Two are really tall, but only have cards on the bottom 2 shelves (all MLB). NFL is in a separate bookshelf that only has 2 shelves and the same for NBA. I have two 3-shelf bookcases that are all-metal. One is all my NASCAR collection. The other has all my Cardinals MLB cards and all my Panthers/Packers/Patriots NFL albums. I also keep blank pages and empty binders on there, as well as bubble mailers and packing tape. I'll eventually have to move the BM's to make room for more cards. I can't fit another binder on my NASCAR bookcase, so if I start a new one it will have to go there.