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Lugnut80
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 9:20 PM | |
Ok Spaz and everyone else that has PC’s in binders how are they organized. I want to sheet mine but haven’t yet because I want them to be in order by year and alphabetical by brand within the year. I’m still actively adding cards so do I leave holes (doesn’t seem practical given the large number of cards for some of these guys.) I don’t want to constantly have to move a bunch of cards to put the new ones in the right spot. So as of now they’re all in a box in penny sleeves.
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spazmatastic
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 9:40 PM | |
Well Mike, you really only have those 2 choices in that scheme. Leave holes to possibly be filled later or deal with moving other cards every time a new one arrives. Just using my Ozzie Smith collection: His 1980 cards are at the front (the '79 RC is cased and framed) and his most recent cards are at the back. With 1981 Ozzie cards, they go Donruss then Fleer then Topps. Any oddball or food issue cards would be where ever they belong ABC-wise. In later years, inserts and parallel cards go after the base set also in ABC order. Multiple different cards in the same set go in numerical order. I put all cards I have in order and only leave holes at the end of the pages for future expansion. That way I don't have to move more than one page worth of cards to fit a single card into the correct spot. I don't leave intentional holes for cards I don't have for a few reasons. #1 is what happens when a card shows up that you didn't know existed before? #2 is b/c there are many cards that I highly doubt I'll ever own, or even find in some cases. So I do leave room for expansion and that means moving a few cards with nearly every addition, but not a bunch of cards.
Edit to add: My non-cased MEM and MANU cards go together in pages at the front so they don't stretch out page slots that would later be filled by thinner cards. AU cards do too for other players, teams or sports, but all my Ozzie AU's are cased and in a card frame.
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707
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mtc32226
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 12:48 AM | |
So my Jerry Rice PC each go in penny sleeves and top loaders. Then in chronological order followed by alphabetical of brand followed by numerical if set has more then one in it. I find it way easiers to find stuff and move it around.
Now for binders my question would be are you good with excel? if so here is my suggestion
1. Number or Label the binder
2. If you are going to put mutiple things in it put in dividers for subsets (i.e Teams or different players). Get the binder organizers from walmart with the color tabs so they stick out and you can label them
3. Instead of trying to move the cards alot just always add the card to the last open spot in the subset and start a new page in the back every time you add one. (unless you are doing a complete set. Then use the blank pocket method.
4. Create an excel spreadsheet and a table. You can create as many columns as you like to track; Name, Brand, Number on Card, Year, Condition, Price....etc. However for tracking you want Binder Number/Name, Subset, Page, Pocket Number. (Depends on how crazy you want to get).
If you did this would be able to find a card in under a minute. Just go to excel find the card you are looking for based on the Brand and number (or whatever). Then it would tell you everything else. No more flipping through pages trying find stuff, excel would tell you everything. I have something close to this but not extreme but I can't tell you how many hours it saves me looking for cards.
Just a few ideas.
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spazmatastic
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 2:47 AM | |
Every bit of that sounds like so much useless work! I have a Jerry Rice collection too. I don't need anything you listed to find any single card of his. I pull out the album and flip to the year. OH, there's that card I was looking for! The End. My Rice collection might be smaller than yours, but I still don't need all that technology for any part of my collection. I've never used Excel in my life and I also don't need to use TCDB or Beckett to find any single card in my 1360+ Jimmie Johnson collection. I know where they are and how they are organized. I don't need computer programs to tell me where my cards are or how to find them. And the ONLY label I need is for which album is which (#1, #2, etc.). Why do so many people over-think collecting? It's not hard and it doesn't matter if you store in albums or boxes. Labels on the spine of albums or the end (or top) of boxes is all you need. Technology doesn't make your collection better or help you store it. Simple practices make the techno part unneccesary and then you only need it to make trades online to people far away from you. If the internet stopped working right now, I'd still be able to make trades with anyone around here real quick.
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707
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Sportzcommish
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 5:29 AM | |
I appreciate the input guys. A few ideas that standout to me and that I will definitely employ are the tabs, empty spots, and ordering by jersey number. I hadn't started labeling binders since I wasn't really happy with the present setup, but that is part of the plan, too. I also am working on Excel worksheets, but mostly to keep track of what I have in case TCDB becomes inaccessible to me.
Let me also point out that Excel helps me with my deficiency in organization skills, which includes keeping paper documents handy. I'm much better at keeping electronic documentation.
Lugnut80 I keep my cards in order as you desire to do so, but I've committed to doing that periodically instead of everytime I receive cards. I collect too many post-vintage players to reorder the collection after each trade, but my OCD doesn't allow me to leave them out of order, so I started keeping an Excel log of when I last organized them (and that would include reconfirming that I sitll own the card as there have been times I've owned dupes that I've agreed to trade and I've had to send my own copy when I couldn't locate the double; so sometimes I have to reconfirm possession).
One area that hasn't really been addressed is specific groupings in binders, although Spaz did touch on it when he shared the picture of his binders. I'm thinking along the lines of keeping binders of players who were contemporaries of each other. For example, I collect Nomar and Jeter and Rickey Henderson and Tim Raines. I have those pairings in two binders. I also collect the Alou brothers and have started a Martinez Family Tree Baseball Collection so those will go into single binders. As I'm typing this I'm realizing some easy groupings: 500 homerun club, 300-win club.
Any other ideas are surely welcome.
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BOBSCARDZ
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 5:51 AM | |
Since after 4+ years, I just began adding individual cards. Up until recently I entered only sets. So the album form of collecting is way too advanced [and expensive] for most of my collections. Simple album organizing: ERR.VAR/COR Album, Fleer Sticker Album, Vintage Card Collection Albums. I Sub organize mostly by year and maker.
Now having announced my "clearing out of Hockey and Basketball", which is a real mess, I've decided to ALBUMIZE - All HOFERs, RCs, ERRs/VARs/CORs Cards [1each only] only. Everything else is being traded or sold. Hockey is almost done, with the massive amounts of Basketball to go. Dealing with 4 rooms of cards is making this a long, arduous process, but in the end it will give me a better grasp of my collection.......I Hope !!!!
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mtc32226
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 6:10 AM | |
He asked for options, I gave him some. I thought that was the point of the post?
Impressive you know every card...good for you.
Old Style vs New is all it is, whatever is best for you what you should do. That is the joy about the hobby everyone does their own thing. But i guess I'm sorry for doing it different ?!?
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“Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't” ― Jerry Rice
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 7:17 AM | |
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Steve Missinne
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 1:21 PM | |
I collect my favorite players organized by pitchers, hitters, hall of famers in seperate binders.
From there it gets sorted out by years they played and era of ball.
Not to specific after that.
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spazmatastic
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 11:34 PM | |
That's really funny and pretty true. I don't know why some of my serious thoughts seem to come off as rude or disrespectful when I totally don't mean it that way. How can the same brand of beer affect my typing and/or conversation skills differently from one night to another?
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707
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