Collecting "old school"

[edjs]

People laugh, but all my cards are either on a shelf in my closet, or, for my PCL cards, in a Bishop's Petit Wafers cracker tin. No boxes, no binders, just laying there.

[drcy]

My childhood collection was stored au natural in boxes for years in a closet next to Wisconsin garage that got damn cold in winter. I learned that cold doesn't harm cards.

[tschock]

I go with the box storage method for most of my sports collection. Almost all cards go into penny sleeves, with the nicer/more expensive then going into top loaders. I then generally put them into 2-row shoe boxes. Topps and Bowmans fit as 1-2 sets per box. A box for T205, a box for T206, and a box for miscellaneous pre-war. Not saying it is better than binders, but it is better for ME.

A lot of how anyone stores/displays their stuff depends on what you have, what you want to have, what kind of access you want to provide to the items, and the limitations of your storage space.

As to non-sports... Those are all in pages in 3 ring binders (about 30 of them). Why? Because the kids have little interest in baseball cards but enjoy looking through the various non-sports sets and binders make this much more accessible for them.