Hi guys, I have what I would call a moderate collection consisting of a few dozen decent PSA cards, and a few hundred raw cards worth a decent amount to where they are pennied, toploaded and teambagged. I have been keeping them in nice little storage bins about 4x6x6 but it has gotten to the point of being kind of tedious to either find a card or just enjoy looking at them as a collection, which I enjoy doing regularly. I am against 9 pocket ring binders, as well as 2x2 and 4x3 soft spine binders because of the susceptibility to accidental damage. Up until recently, I never really looked into resolving this quirk I have until I was watching a stream where another collector asked if anyone had a good way to store top loaders for looking at them. So i did a little browsing and seeing that there used to be a company literally called āToploadbinderā that is no longer in business and whos pages donāt fit a standard binder and saw no means of obtaining one of their products. So i went to the next best option of 2x2 binder pages from BCW that are made for ā3.5x5 picturesā but fits EVERYTHING HARD COVERED AND EVEN CARD SAVERS perfectly. EVEN SLABBED CARDS! Check it out, I think itās great for anyone who doesnāt grade ALL their decent cards but also dislikes risking damage to decent cards just in penny sleeves who look at their cards often!
TLDR: I am using these sleeves from BCW for a different way to store some cards in toploaders or card savers or even your SLABS for easy worry free easy viewing!
I store my cards in multiple locations. The very high end stuff I keep in a safety deposit box, and secured storage units inside a safe. Just make sure wherever you keep it, itās elevated from any potential flooding, and always in giant water proof tupperware containers if inside a house. One collector lost a bunch of Aquapolis boxes due to flooding. Canāt locate the old YouTube video. Needless to say, extremely sad and shitty for him.
Locked cabinet. Was reading about a using a safe here on the forum but there may be humidity issues and donāt want to deal with buying and replacing dessicants.
I remember that video, a whole sealed collection of booster boxes completely destroyed in a flood. Died a little as he opened up some of the boxes and packs. Part of the reason I keep my loose collection inside a box within a box inside a industrial plastic storage bid.
The binder in the original post looks very cool! Fortunately, or unfortunately, I donāt have particular valuable cards so I just have them in binders to look at.
I am planning to get a psa first edition venusaur though, but even that im not looking for the highest grades. Personally I wouldnāt want any cards that I canāt display without extreme fear of loss (obviously different because I donāt hold cards to sell etc).
I think if I had a bunch of psa cards Iād try to find some kinda display frame where I can hang them on a wall or something. Not too sure this exists, but its the idea in my head
All the expensive ones are in a little cardboard box, I should improve thatā¦ And my other collection is in a ultimate guard binder (best binder I have ever got)
The only issue you may run into with displays out in the open is exposure to UV light over time. Leads to pretty nasty fading of the color saturation of the cards. Even a few minutes of indirect glare of sunlight as it passes by the room through the day really adds up.
Unfortunately havent found a great way to store mine besides boxed up until I can have space to organize and display. Individual higher value cards sleeved in toploaders, lower value just sleeved. Regular D-ring binders on a shelf for bulk set collections.
The insane prices have led me to transfer everything of much value from the display cupboard into a safe.
Fire and waterproof 36L, 46kg safe. All product except blisters is placed into new plactic rectangle takaway containers, seperated by graded / raw (sleeve and toploader) / booster packs. Moisture absorber takes up a bit of room.
Sleeved, put in binders, and then shoved under my bed in a drawer after a sprinkling of silica gel packets. Before that, everything was in a chest in my closet until I started realizing how warm it got in there during the summer.
Gel packets are such a great idea, Iām definitely gonna put some in my storage bins. Thank you.
I use those industrial black storage bins with the yellow tops to help prevent any UV exposure.
My setup is definitely suboptimal. Right now my slabs it is currently in a BCW cardboard box with āPSA slabsā written on top lol. My bulk are in a BCW 5000 box and my holiday sets are in binders.
Recently Iāve moved everything in my actual collection into a Dex binder and sleeved. The other loose cards are either stacked in a pile on a shelf or in a couple of tins that I have. Graded cards are just stacked on the same shelf with the loose
Holos, non-holo rares and reverses (sleeve+toploader) stacked in plastic boxes, opened at my viewing pleasure. Bulk is stored in opened booster boxes, wooden chests and yet more plastic boxes.
No longer happy with my bulk arrangement, ordered 10.000 soft sleeves and 2.000 Card Savers recently to change that, sleeved bulk will probably end up in those neat 3200 storage boxes.
Ungraded (valuable) cards in upside-down KMC perfect fits, non-glare black sleeves, and toploadersā¦ on a table in my living room. Graded cards and sealed product are in a plastic box thing from the Container Store. I save silica gel packs and toss them in said box. No idea if it does anything.
Graded cards and sealed product are in a plastic box thing from the Container Store. I save silica gel packs and toss them in said box. No idea if it does anything.