Do you prefer binders or boxes?

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Binders went out for me as a kid. Just too much stuff that is not necessarily part of a set or tightly grouped collection, and for whatever reason as an adult collector - I like stacks and piles and flipping and random organization; playing with my cards - better than I do the tight order of a binder.

My slabs are all in one box for slabs. My cards in One Touches or other mags are all in another box. My cards still only in toploaders or card savers are in a 3rd and 4th box. Even my 1971 Topps complete set, yes all 752 of them - are in two boxes full of toploaders. The expense might not make sense, (the weight of the boxes sure doesn’t) but I simply didn’t want them in a binder. It’s fair to say that I have an extreme dislike of binders these days.

I know, I know - they never really did anything to me…

Man, the highlighted portion of your post really hits home.

A while back, I decided to start getting more organized by putting all of the tons of random cards I have (in myriad boxes) in order by year, to make life a bit 'easier.' Ha!!! Biggest mistake evah, I tell you!!!!! Who the heck wants to flip through stacks of cards that are unnecessarily arranged in chronological order????? Those are the makings of a lunatic!!!!

To paraphrase good old Patrick (wonder if his friends just called him Pat?) Henry, "Give me randomness or give me death!!!"

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Man, the highlighted portion of your post really hits home.

A while back, I decided to start getting more organized by putting all of the tons of random cards I have (in myriad boxes) in order by year, to make life a bit 'easier.' Ha!!! Biggest mistake evah, I tell you!!!!! Who the heck wants to flip through stacks of cards that are unnecessarily arranged in chronological order????? Those are the makings of a lunatic!!!!

To paraphrase good old Patrick (wonder if his friends just called him Pat?) Henry, "Give me randomness or give me death!!!"

I just like options. I'll have a pile of cards I'm "actively looking at" for any given period of time. That period of time might be 2 days, it might be 2 weeks - just depending on whatever else is or isn't going on in my life. It might be 10 cards, it might be 25. It might be all slabbed, it might be all raw, it might be a random mix.

But generally when I do this, I put the cards in order by year and number in the set. I do enjoy the organization. I just don't want it to be permanent and inflexible.

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

I just like options. I'll have a pile of cards I'm "actively looking at" for any given period of time. That period of time might be 2 days, it might be 2 weeks - just depending on whatever else is or isn't going on in my life. It might be 10 cards, it might be 25. It might be all slabbed, it might be all raw, it might be a random mix.

But generally when I do this, I put the cards in order by year and number in the set. I do enjoy the organization. I just don't want it to be permanent and inflexible.

I hope you didn't think I was somehow coming after you. Far from it. I was just having a laugh at how much I love flipping through the sheer randomness of my boxes. I added to my original post.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I hope you didn't think I was somehow coming after you. Far from it. I was just having a laugh at how much I love flipping through the sheer randomness of my boxes. I added to my original post.

Not at all. I find it fascinating myself my habits from one day to the next.


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[Section103]

My collection is always small and specifically tailored, so I prefer catalogued.

[wdwfan]

I'm a binder guy myself. All of my sets as well as any of my Rangers PC (Kinsler, Nolan) are in binders. All cards, including HOFers, stars, whatever. I don't own a single graded card and don't care to. Everything raw and in notebooks.

[IndyDave]

Most of my sets are in binders.

They first went in back in the 70's and 80's long before Card Savers were a thing.

I traded out the old Rothman plastic sheets back during the pandemic for the current sheets.

I do have my 1952 and 1953 Topps and 1953 Bowman (both sets) in Card Saver in boxes. Did that about 15 or 20 years ago, but haven't done more.