Best storage options for vintage?

[JollyElm]

My sets (and a whole lot of other stuff) are housed in binders. This pic shows four types of boxes that work pretty well for everything else:

1. Bottom Left - Random shoe boxes...which are always a MUST for any nostalgic card collector. (Who knew I was a ladies size 6??)
2. Upper Left - Michael's sells great (read: cheap) quality photograph boxes, which are fantastic for stacking toploaders and slabs alike. My absolute favorite!!
3. Bottom Right - Two-row corrugated cardboard boxes that are real sturdy and great for holding (and transporting) large batches of slabs.
4. Upper Right (obscured by toploaders) - Your standard corrugated cardboard boxes, 100 count, 500 count, whatever, usually used for holding sets, but there are also ones (shown) wide enough to be filled with slabs.

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5. Honorable mention - I still have a few old Pop Tarts boxes filled with random 1970's commons.

[Ray Van]

I use both top loaders and binders/sheets. I echo comments about shoe boxes being invaluable especially for oversized items that you can put in topholders and then stack them (when stacking I try to alternate direction to avoid the weight of the stack bending items at the bottom of the stack which can happen even in topholders).

For tobacco cards, I used to use the smaller tobacco sized topholders but I am moving away from them in favour of regular sized ones - when setting up at shows I just feel the smaller topholders could be prone to higher theft because of their size and ease of pocketing them.

I use the 2-row card storage boxes (1600ct?) - I find these are perfect to place topholders upright in the two rows. As stated by others there is a corresponding larger 2-row storage box that works great for slabs (albeit PSA fit better in there than SGC, SGC makes for a tight fit but still works). I like the 2-row ones because they stack well while also taking up a smaller footprint than 4-row boxes.