What do you do with your cards???

[Archive]

Posted By: Trevor Hocking

I am fortunate enough to have a den all to myself. I'm also very fortunate that the room has no windows, this helps with the light issue. It's pretty deck out with baseball memorabilia. I have three six and a feet tall curios, my computer, desk, and of course the big screen and lazy boy. As far as safety goes, I recommend investing in a large and very heavy fire proof filing cabinet. The one that I have is five feet tall, three feet wide and weighs about 900-1000 pounds, this makes it very hard to steel, that is if you make sure to remove the casters and place it on thick carpet so it can sink in. I also picked the one with a ten number digital code to open it, and just for a little more security I called a locksmith to add an additional key driven lock as well. This makes a great place to store you collection and it has a lot of room then a traditional safe, but my father does have a walk in safe at his house and that's where most of the sets reside. Also make sure to add a dead bolt to the rooms door and buy heavy duty hinges. To secure it in your home place a motion sensor, that's connected to a paging monitoring system, right in the middle of the room on the ceiling, just make sure to turn the ceiling fan off when you leave. As you can tell when it come to security I'm a little obsessed, but hay when it comes to cards who's not! I will try to get some pictures scanned and post them. Great topic!
Trevor