Collection storage update

 About 2 months ago, Karen got 2 bookshelves for me to put my binders on. I put up 1 in our garage and 1 in our pantry/laundry room. For me, these were a much needed purchase as my Favorite Player, Tigers, and Rays binders have been just sitting on a desk stacked up for the past few years and was making getting a card out of them a nightmare. 

I have spent the past few weeks putting cards from monster boxes in those said binders, as well as a few other ones, and now the binders are proudly sitting in my pantry bookshelf. 

As of now, I have 8 Rays binders and 7 Tigers ones. I’m pretty proud of that, as well as being in the on TCDB. My favorite players binders have been boosted to 7, I have 5 cards of rookies (stars and guys like Shawn Abner and Kevin Maas). The funny thing with the rookie binders is that I just pull any rookie card I get from a pack now since you never know who will break out, and the last binder was almost all 2023 and 2024 cards. There is 1 binder of Topps sunset (or final) cards, a binder with relics and parallels, 1 binder with just parallels, and then my team binders start with the National League. 

Right now, I’ve finished Arizona, Atlanta, Cubs, Cincinnati, Colorado, and the Marlins, and I’m averaging about 4 binders per team. With the binders and pages I have in the garage, I am positive I will be out of binders, and I may run out of pages. I also think I will probably need 1 more bookshelf when all of the cards are transferred from monster boxes into binders. 

There is some space between the shelves and binders, and I’ve used that to put supplies like penny sleeves, and put a few monster boxes with new cards I’ve acquired. After all, if I finish the Astros binder this week, I’m not reorganizing the whole thing if I get one new Astros card from wherever (unless it is a 2024 card maybe). I also keep my folder with my Ultimate Topps Project wantlist in this space. 

As you can see, I’ve made some labels for each of the binders, and I think those will help with organization, and I plan to have each of my binders labeled. 

In the garage, I have a desk, and there is a monster box for trades. I have tabs with names of bloggers I have traded with in the past. Their current address is on the tab, and it makes it easy for me to put cards for trading, as well as when I’m ready to send out a package. 

I feel like the organization will help me with trading. Speaking of trading, apparently I pulled an SSP of Eric Hosmer from 2016 Topps Update, and I’m currently in the process of trying to make a trade with a TCDB member who wants it. Maybe that will help me cross some more cards off of my wantlists. 

Thanks for checking out my latest post. 

-Jeremy