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Today’s Question: QotD: How do you sort your cards?
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In binders? In sets? Sorting by whatever landed in the pile now lives in the pile? I have valuable cards and bulk all goes to the trash?
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set binders. And one “cool swirls” binder. The rest is just sorted by set in numerical order. Also a swirl drawer. I need to binder some of them up. Its full now.
Always in binders and always by set number. For the promos that are unnumbered, I use release date to sort the card. It is much more effective and I do not have to change much stuff.
First i wait some months until i have time to do some but then it’s the binders, no repeating pattern how since my goals are so all over the place and hence is the binder order
Themed/set binders organized by matching art, subcollection type, and set number; bulk boxes organized by set and holo; boxes of toploaders and graded slabs organized by display collection theme; display cases, safes, the sleeve cabinet, and the processing pile aka a games table.
There should really be a “eclectic processing table/pile” thread to show how behind we are on organizing new purchases.
When i first got back in I was gonna do it by set. I later realized that I didn’t purchase that many cards to have it make sense to sort that way. Same with set binders. Now I keep all my bulk in bcw cardboard boxes. Any sort of hit I sleeve and chuck in one as well. I still have some tins and etbs with random things, but I try to stay on top of things. Maybe every 6 months or so I will do a “spring cleaning” of sorts to consolidate everything where it needs to go. My purchases these days are more specific and rarely do I even buy or open modern.
Main collection is in binders that are organized by dex number & release date.
Illustrator-specific collections (Yuka Morii, Asako Ito, osare, Taiga Kayama) are currently in dex order as well, with the Yuka Morii master set being split into two binders, one with standard cards and promos, the other for reverse-holos. after my previous thread asking how others organize theirs I may just reorganize it to release-date and stop giving myself a migraine every time a new card releases and I have to shuffle them around
