Set-Builder Thread

[ALR-bishop]

Those binders are great Mark.

[Mountaineer1999]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Those binders are great Mark.

+1

[darkhorse9]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Those binders are great Mark.

Thanks. BTW you might even notice a theme to them.

The 1950's sets are all in blue binders
1960's in black
1970's in blue
1980's in multi-color
1990's in blue
2000's in black
2010's in blue

That's how OCD I am with them.

[skil55voy]

I started collecting in 1962. I had full or partial sets from 1954 through 1981. This included Topps and Bowman. I also had some Post Cereal and Jell-o. When my first daughter was on the way I sold most of them (1986) to buy a house. I kept the Post Cereal and Jell-o cards and decided to collect them as sets. Being a Detroit Tigers fan I kept a lot of the Tigers and have been building team sets.

Baseball
1961 Post - Complete Master Set - One Card from every box and one of every company card. (525)

1962 Post Complete. Working on a Master set. (Short 70 cards)
1963 Post Missing Thomas. Working on a Master Set (Short 64 cards)
1962 Canadian - Missing 29 Cards
1962 Jello - Missing 88 Cards
1963 Jello - Missing 36 Cards

Football
1962 Post - Missing 11 Cards. Working on a Master Set based on different backgrounds
1962 Post Canadian - Missing 15 Cards
1963 Post Canadian - Complete. Working on a Master Set

I have panels from each year and complete Jello boxes from each year. I also have the albums for 1962 Canadian Football in French and English.
Also have a few of the newer (Post 1980) Hockey sets and complete cereal and Jello boxes.

[Vintagevault13]

Originally Posted by darkhorse9

Thanks. BTW you might even notice a theme to them.



The 1950's sets are all in blue binders

1960's in black

1970's in blue

1980's in multi-color

1990's in blue

2000's in black

2010's in blue



That's how OCD I am with them.

Funny. I can definitely relate to the OCD tendencies. I think that kinda goes with the set-building mindset.


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[ALR-bishop]

Sorry Mark. It is ok to have a multi color section but you can't have three blue sections and only two black. It does not pass the OCD test, unless you commit that the 2020s will be black again.

[Robs70sCards]

Funny! With the set builders there's a common theme of collecting cards before the end of the Topps monopoly era (for the most part) and OCD, lol. I know it affects me. When I got back into cards briefly in 2003/2004 I tried to collect a "set", but which one, just the base, there's a bazillion inserts and autos, ugh. Then I tried collecting team sets of the A's, but that still bothered me. When I got back into it 3 years ago it was a specific purpose and I vowed I would never buy anything past 1980. At first I was just going to collect the years I initially liked, then it was every year, then I thought what the heck, collect the birth year set too, HAha.

With my particular form of OCD I even have a hard time looking through the binder if I know there's blank spots, lol. Although I'm not quite at the level of needing color coordinated binders...but that is very cool darkhorse!

[SAllen2556]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Those binders are great Mark.

I agree! One question though - I have read that it's better to store binders horizontally rather than vertically as shown in the photo. Any truth to that?