After years on Net54 one realizes how much he has learned here from other members, some of it remembered and some not. Maybe others have forgotten the same thing you learned. This thread hopefully will be a place where you can post something that you have learned here that you still utilize today in your collecting activities.
As collectors of cards, slabs, sets and memorabilia we all receive a fair number of boxes in the mail. Many are permanently defaced precluding re-use. So you simply throw them away. Not I.
I cannot remember who posted this, but the majority of packing boxes are cut and configured flat pieces of cardboard. The vast majority of them are, in fact, completely reversible. The two examples illustrated in the photo have been "reversed" into seemingly untouched brown boxes. No mailed stickers or writing on the outside. Since learning this trick, the need for purchasing boxes has been virtually eliminated.
However, if you receive cards in a "reversed" box, you cannot repeat the procedure with the same results.
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Happy collecting.
Lets see some other unusual benefits of a Net54 education.