Another Player Collector Question

[miguelcabrera]

As I begin to accumulate more and more cards I was wondering how do I store them all. Clearly I have any autos and mid-high end in penny sleeves and top loaders, but what do you do with all the base, numbered cards, inserts, and GU.

Do you just out cards like a bowman chrome xfractor into a soft sleeve and stick it in a box with similar cards and store them all that way?
Or do you only do that for base and put anything numbered or GU into toploaders?
I am about to buy 500 soft sleeves because I have no more left and was just wondering how most hardcore player collectors do this.

 

[BunchOBull]

I put my finest copy of each low-end and base card in penny sleeve and toploader...the doubles go in penny sleeves and 900 ct boxes.

 

[miguelcabrera]

I put my finest copy of each low-end and base card in penny sleeve and toploader...the doubles go in penny sleeves and 900 ct boxes.

Yeah this is what I kind of want to do as well but that many toploaders will be so expensive.

 

[cubfan131]

I have all mine in penny sleeves and toploaders in 5000 ct boxes in chronological order. It makes it easier to find certain cards and to see if I need certain cards.

 

[darrend505]

I put my finest copy of each low-end and base card in penny sleeve and toploader...the doubles go in penny sleeves and 900 ct boxes.

Yeah this is what I kind of want to do as well but that many toploaders will be so expensive.

Its not very expensive if you buy them in bulk. I can get 10k sleeves and 1k toploaders for around 75 bucks.

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

I created a master list of all Hanley cards using microsoft excel. This gives each card a number (ex. 2003-001, 2003-002, 2003-003...) and then i decide if it goes in 9 pocket pages or toploaders/penny sleeves. I then put all the toploader cards in order, and have a binder of 9 pocket pages. I leave a blank spot for cards I'm missing in the pages so everything will be in order.

 

[mrwhitesox30]

I think I'm up to about 550 Rowand cards, so it might not be plausible to sort Cabrera's the same way due to the massive amount of cards he has. All of the base cards are in 9-pocket pages. All of the 1/1s and really rare or expensive cards are in toploaders or one-touches and then into a small fireproof safe. Everything else is in a toploader or one touch and then sorted by year and then alphabetically within each year in a two-row cardboard box. That way if I ever need to get one I know exactly where it is, which helps because I like to scan the rainbowns together. Also, if I have a whole bunch of thick cards from one set (like UD Black autos), then all of those go in a plastic case that's big enough.

 

[bigpapiMA32]

I put all my AU/GU in toploaders and everything else I sort by year and set and put in a binder of 9-card pages. I leave a couple pages at the end of each year so when I get new cards I don't need to move 800 cards up one slot each.