I reached a collecting milestone last night

FrodoBaggins · June 15, 2008 3:09AM

No, I didn't get the latest hot Bowman Chrome prospect autograph, 1/1, low pop vintage PSA 9, or prewar HOFer in the mail yesterday. Nor did I find that elusive last card to complete a set.

I finished sorting my cards....

All 150,000 of them

Most of my collection was sorted one way - thrown in any box I could find and shoved under my bed or in my closet. I was real good about keeping my nice stuff in order, but the crap - 92 Leaf baseball, 95 Classic draft football, 93 Hoops basketball, 01 Collector's Choice hockey, Magic the Gathering stuff (why did I buy this junk?), my Ryan Leaf rookie card collection (WHY?) - was thrown haphazardly into whatever nook and cranny I could find in my room.

No more.

It took over a month, and I destroyed my room and the home office room in the process, but everything is sorted...Stars are in 3000 count boxes, sorted by player alphabetically, and by year, separated by sports of course; and all my commons are sorted by manufacturer, year, etc. I didn't sory by card number because I'm not that ADD, but this is the nicest my collection has looked since I bought my first pack of cards. And all my sets (200+ of them) are in binders in a bookcase. It's nice to now be able to find a specific card in under 30 hours.

DavidPuddy · June 15, 2008 3:14AM

Congrats,
Now come over to my house and help me.
My home office is a wreck. My goal is to have everything sorted by the end of the summer.

MooseDog · June 15, 2008 3:15AM

<< <i>It's nice to now be able to find a specific card in under 30 hours. >>

You too? That's actually pretty good. Sometimes takes me days/weeks to find stuff.

mrbecker712 · June 15, 2008 4:00PM

Question...you say you separated by stars, but how did you determine that? Did you do HOF/ future HOFer, or did you go by the Beckett listing for stars, or another method? I'd be curious to know. I'm looking to do some serious sorting soon myself.

Estil · June 15, 2008 4:10PM

Speaking of collecting milestones, I'm approaching 80,000 cards (all complete sets in binders/pages).

I think I have around 78,000ish or so.

FrodoBaggins · June 16, 2008 7:47AM

<< <i>Question...you say you separated by stars, but how did you determine that? Did you do HOF/ future HOFer, or did you go by the Beckett listing for stars, or another method? I'd be curious to know. I'm looking to do some serious sorting soon myself. >>

I just make up my own list based on watching guys play. For example I've always been a Mike Sweeney fan, thus he's in my star box....I'm sure most others think he's a common. I'm also really biased - I don't have Deion Sanders cards in my star boxes because I hated him growing up. He will always be worthless to me

As for retired players, It's just a mix of HOFers and stars of their respective generations - Munson, Garvey, Smokey Joe Wood, Santo, etc

fur72 · June 16, 2008 10:05AM

For me its a never ending battle. This is the mess directly behind me and the rest of the room and my desk are not any better. Its starting to spill into my cube at work. I gotta stop going to target on my lunch. All though notice my 26th national convention poster on the right I stole with 11 year old present, Im so proud!

Estil · June 20, 2008 4:39AM

Cool vending boxes! What years are they?

RipublicaninMass · June 20, 2008 5:07AM

NOW send me your crappy red sox cards, and I will send you crappy cards of your team

...see b/s/t forum for details

fur72 · June 20, 2008 6:53AM

Vending boxes are mostly Early 80's baseball, I have a box of 80-81 Basketball, and I believe one is all Drakes Cakes 1985 I believe.

RipublicaninMass: I saw your thread in BST and how about this for a trade, Red Sox for Jeters?

prscott933 · June 20, 2008 8:29AM

does that slot machine work?

I reached a collecting milestone last night

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