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The Source - Card Collecting 101 / Re: Storing and Displaying Your Collection
« on: August 21, 2015, 07:58:34 PM »I use these Little shadow boxes. No fabrication necessary. I just rotate the cards I display. Right now I'm feeling Black and White.
The box is something i made with a premade box, paint, and ad/gaff cards w/ mod podge.
And I measured, At full capacity, the box can hold 996 decks.
So in other words, when you move, that box requires three movers or one Ah-nold?
I just moved into a new apartment, bringing my entire collection (including donated decks that I give away at the hospital) of over 2,000 decks. The largest of the boxes I transported contained 125 decks, and they were HEAVY. Your box equals EIGHT of those large boxes!!!
How do you effectively access decks in there? My largest boxes are flat and hold the cards side by side - no deck hiding under another deck anywhere, so any of the 125 decks can be just plucked out. However, I don't have the space to lay those boxes out - I stack them, and the stuff on the bottom tends to stay on the bottom!
1. I didnt think of the weight. You're right it's crazy heavy.
2. I don't EFFECTIVELY access the decks. It's that simple. Lol
Since my collection is still rather small, I am able to separate the practical decks from the ones I just want to save and look at. If you look at the pic you'll see what I mean.
But I like having to remove decks to get to others. It MAKES me rediscover and appreciate all of em. Feel me?
and now, if I'm looking at your "half" collections, i ask myself if i should stop collecting playincards (.... no..... i'm not giving up).
Just focus on collecting what you really like, set boundaries and follow them, the rest will happen and you'll get to where you want to be over time.