Where do you store your collections?
leadoff4
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Based off of the thread below about "Collecting raw sets" in which someone(bbcemporium) said he had 120 sets of '89 Fleer... it made me wonder where people store their collections. My collection is in the closet of my computer room/kids' playroom/den. I have what I consider to be a small collection but my closet is running out of space since it has to compete with 2 old TVs, an old computer monitor and an old printer. I have about 10-15 late 80s/early 90s wax boxes, one 5000 ct. "junk" singles box, 2-3 binders full of cards, 4 vintage BB sets in progress in various boxes, one rubbermaid container of about 50 or so graded cards, plus supplies like penny sleeves, card savers and too many empty boxes. Needless to say, it piles up quickly.
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i have it at my house, my parents' house and my sisters house
i have way too much
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
my accumulation (i refuse to call it a collection, since i didn't have the final say on everything, thanks son), is like the proverbial 800 lb. gorilla......wherever it wants to.
Although I have heard you can find some nice cards in one.
Looking for Charlie (Charley) Maxwell cards.
And what's on display - shelved - hung in my small office in the house.
mike
edit: I've been procrastinating - finishing the organization and cataloged storage and display of my stuff for years!
Some binders and rubbermaid containers
and
MULLINS5,1966CUDA,nam812,nightcrawler,OAKESY25,PowderedH2O,relaxed,RonBurgundy,samsgirl214,shagrotn77,swartz1,slantycouch,Statman,Wabittwax
I've also got a safe in the closet for the most valuable stuff.
It's a work in progress, but I can spend countless hours in there watching sports and enjoying my collection of collections.
PCGS Registries
Box of 20
SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
I have cards in the hall closet , on the top shelves of my sons closet and in
the basement in 800ct. boxes inside rubbermaid totes.
I said in a different thread , one of my goals for 2010 was to get it all sorted out and
finish alot of the junk sets i have started. then get them into 9 pocket pages and then
into binders.
Always looking for Chipper Jones cards.
Im a very focused collector of cards from 1909 - 2012...LOL
One of these. Storage units are way cheaper than divorce attorneys.
That pic is from October. It is a bit more organized now.
...and a few shelves in my basement.
Edit to add - I forgot this closet.
Collector of Pittsburgh Pirates cards for a slightly less stupid reason.
My Pirates Collection
When I was in my early 20s, I use to keep cards in Card Saver IIs and organize them by year and the place them in a right size box. My collection was small, so it was easy to locate cards. Collection has gotten bigger over the years and they are in various card protection systems.
I have psa cards in boxes, penny sleeved cards in those 200 ct boxes, cards in Card Saver IIs boxed. There is no real order, although some boxes are clearly labeled for the moment. I put the stuff in bigger boxes and place them in various areas of my room: under the bed, closet and shelf. I bought 9 pocket pages and an Album, but nothing sorted yet. I was thinking about putting a 1987 Donruss factory set in an album.
BST: Tennessebanker, Downtown1974, LarkinCollector, nendee
In addition to the cards, I have boxes of packing peanuts, top loaders, penny sleeves, cases, bubble mailers, etc...
Autographs $200 + go in the safe.
Cards $1 - $100 are soft sleeved/top loaded and are in a 3500 count box.
Inserts, #ed cards and rookies are soft sleeved and thrown into a 3500 box.
I don't have any complete sets anymore, so storage doesn't take up much space.
As for signed bats, baseballs and jerseys, they are everywhere!