It has been ordered...My 2010 box of Topps Allen & Ginter (the first of what is likely to be many). It has been a while since I have tore apart a box, and I thank Blowout Cards for providing e the best price to do it for. I even added in a few packs of Tobacco card size top loaders for those pesky mini insets that Topps puts in A&G, Mayo, T205/6, etc... Quite frankly, I really do not have very many tobacco sized cards so I am at a loss on the best way to store them. Putting each one in a top loader will cost too much and take up way too much space. I do not know of the existence of any snap cases or boxes. I do not want to do the pages/binder thing if I do not have to...although, if you have looked at the insert sets in A&G for 2010 they are all educational to some extent and I could use that a bridge to teach my 5 year old son some cool things (and maybe spark his interest in collecting).
So I present to you, my Orange Kool-Aid Faithful.....a CONTEST!!!! The rules are as follows. All you need to do is post a comment letting me know how you store your tobacco sized cards. I am looking for serious options here... Each comment will gain you one entry. You can get 2 additional entries if you mention my contest and post a link to it on your blog (please let me know if/when you have done so). You can also gain an additional entry by following my blog (if you already follow it, you will receive an entry for following upon posting your comment). The following suggestions will not count: top loaders, pages/binder...I came up with those myself. If your method of storage has already been suggested, you may still post it (and receive and entry) - if one method is more popular than the others it might be the better method of storage.
If have less than 10 comments the prize will be something relatively trivial. If I have 11 or more comments the prize will be a tobacco sized game used card of a 14 year MLB veteran, and a tobacco sized game used card of a 17 year MLB veteran for you to store using your ingenious storage method. If there are more than 20 comments, I will sweeten the pot for the winner, and add a second place prize as well.
If this, my first contest, goes well I hope to do it again sometime soon. Thanks!
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Another TTM Success From Joe Cowley
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The ones I don't have pages for fit nicely in 3 old cigar boxes I picked up at a yard sale. Two nice rows in each box.
ReplyDeleteThe dollar stores by me have a nice assortment of cheap plastic food storage containers in various different sizes. They also are clear so you can see what's inside.
ReplyDeleteSpreading the word.
http://babennysbaseballcardbuffet.blogspot.com/2010/06/contest-over-at-orange-kool-aid.html
I put my smaller cards like A&G and Murads into penny sleeves, then into a 3500 count box.
ReplyDeleteAt the moment, I have them in team bags. If you turn them sideways, you can get two stacks of 30 before you close the bag. I have been trying to find a snap case or some type of box since my LCS doesn't have pages and I don't want to order an entire box.
ReplyDeleteOh, and consider yourself pimped...
http://dogfacedgremlin.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-contest-pimping-that-isnt-mine.html
I know they make binder pages that are tobacco sized. But really if you just need storage i like to use one of those sliding clear plastic card boxes. It's funny none of the card protecting manufacturers haven't hit up on this. I mean modern tobacco sized cards have been coming out pretty regularly since Pacific did it in 2000 and Topps in 2002 with T206. The nice thing about the Tobacco sized top loaders is they include the penny sleeves.
ReplyDeleteAnd I posted your contest here. Cheers
http://collectorscrack.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-easy-contest-for-lazy.html
I store them in the sides of binders I buy. I only have one, so it hasn't been an issue.
ReplyDeletePersonally I do 15 card pages. But I do have a few oddball mini cards from over the years that I don't have in binders. For those I just stick them in penny sleeves and put them right in boxes with normal sized cards. This works not only with the tobacco sized cards but with any type of mini card. (pannini stickers, Goudey mini, Topps Mini, even Topps Micro...)
ReplyDeleteJust like hard plastic cases for regular cards, I use the small hard plastic. I think they are supposed to be used for stamps or something, but what the heck, they work for me. They are the exact size. Idk where to buy them, but I got a couple in a trade for tobacco cards, check em out if you can find em. And I will pimp your contest at collectablecards.yolasite.com. And I am following you! :)
ReplyDeleteI bought extra wide penny sleeves meant for thick cards and can put two minis (turned sideways) in each. Then I put all of the sleeves in a custom box that I made out chipboard that was leftover from one of my architecture models.
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