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curler88j
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 3:43:30 AM
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How do you store your figures stat cards? i have my in toploaders but im too the point where i dont have enough and the piles are getting crazy, so i want to know how every one else stores their cards and hopefully find a new way to store mine. Thanks
wannabe mexican
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 3:47:52 AM
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I have a Converse shoebox, thinner than normal ones, in which I keep my cards. I then seperate them into faction and point cost and place them in the small transparent bags that Troll and Toad packages a mini and its card in. When the bag gets too full, I split them up into two bags. My Dejarik Monsters have a seperate bag and are not mixed in with the other fringe cards.

The cards of my rarest and most used minis I also slide into card protectors.
Ruhk
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:00:35 AM
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after using the card sleeves + card box method for awhile, it became too much of a pain to have to sort through each faction and set to find and replace what I needed.

Right now my cards are in a binder, organized by set, with each unique have 1 card in their spot, and each non-unique having two copies slid into a 9 slot card page. The binder is a 3.5" one and theres over 100 sheets to cover all the sets. Each set is marked by a tab divider to ease of locations. Multiple duplicates are now stored in a card box in single sleeves, but I rarely have to pull them out of there.

I find this system to be extremely easy to use and to find and replace the cards I've used.
saeseetiin
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:32:31 AM
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I put mine in sleeves then top loaders and I store them in a top loader box I got off Bags unlimited I think the box holds 1000 top loaders, here is a link if anyone wants to check it out. http://www.bagsunlimited.com/cart/detail.asp?product_id=xcsbb
countrydude82487
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 6:53:44 AM
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i store them in both thin toploaders and in binders with 9 card page sleeves. when i go to events like gen con i actualy take the ones i am going to use out of the 9 page sleeves and put them with the thin toploaders into thick topladers. I am an extremest though. ( i have a 2 year old who like to take off with them and will try to tear them so this slops him pretty quick.)You can always check ebay for stores that are selling lots of sleeves. I have gotten over a thousan off of ebay at one point and they were still unopened and i think i paid like $2 for a pack of 100
PhageLab
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 7:18:43 AM
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Thins sleeves and boxes. With almost 2300 cards now, it's 4 card boxes, and it's getting close to needing a fifth. Organized of course by faction, then uniques and rares up front in order by how important I feel they are to the faction (Mace and Yoda in front of Republic, Luke in front of NR, etc.) and followed by the non uniques, also in a seemingly random order that makes perfect sense to me.
cymonguk
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:37:09 AM
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i use a business card rolodex, they have the right size plastic holders, each figure is the stored alphabeically, when I get a new one just slot in the correct place...


anyone say over organised?
dperron
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 11:02:56 AM
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I used the top loader sleeves, the 9 card pages, and a binder for each faction. I then organize the cards from highest point value to lowest within each faction/binder. This allows for teams to be assembled quickly once every player knows what faction they are using.
Greybird
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 11:51:44 AM
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I don't do the tournament scene so I never need more than one card of a particular figure no matter how many I'm using in a game. So I've got one of every card sheathed in cheap card protector sleeves and then grouped by faction in a long, single-row card box - maybe a little under a foot and a half long - that I can easily carry around. All my extras get packed into more card boxes and put in storage.
Boba52
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 12:14:58 PM
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I play magic as well, so I have extra of these boxes you get to put decks in. I use them for minis by sorting the cards by faction and then by cost. I have recently changed my storage system of the minis to be unique and non-unique by faction and am thinking about doing the same with the cards.

Gurneywars
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:08:03 PM
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All 4000+ of my cards are in top loading penny sleeves. Then they are placed in faction separation in numerical order showing each set order. These are all placed in card boxes you can get at most sports shops or comic stores and I'm starting to see at game stores.

You can get several sizes from single row short to long and double row triple row and even quadruple row. Mine are 3 rows wide plain white and I have 2 at the moment and after cards are put away there is a top to the boxes.

I have few smaller ones like the magic one shown above but star wars of plain white for taking various builds to tourneys.
Biggsy
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 11:49:52 PM
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I have all my cards in one of these:

http://www.bcwsupplies.com/products/Trading-Card-Boxes/Full-Lid-Super-Monster-Storage-Box-5000-Ct.htm

Sorted by faction, then cost. Uniques are separated from the scrubs.
DarthJak
Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 12:27:05 AM
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swinefeld
Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 4:28:02 AM
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I use zippered binders - 3 of 'em. (9 slots per page)

1 big one for Rep/Sep/Imp/Rebs
1 for fringe
1 for Mando/OR/Vong/NR/Sith

After the last 3 or so sets they have become a chaotic mess, so next time I reorganize the cards I will probably do them by sets, with 2-4 copies of the UC/C that will get used often, and then all the other extras will go into a big card box, also arranged by set.
tx3252
Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 5:05:46 AM
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I use 4 binders with 9-sleave pages arranged by faction. I place all the minor factions (Old Republic, New Republic, Vong, Mandos, and Sith) in one. Fringe gets its own binder and Republic/Rebel and Imperial/Separatists get their own.
DarthJak
Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 8:57:31 AM
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cymonguk wrote:



anyone say over organised?


can anyone spell organized? LOLLOL
Darth Percocet
Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:22:00 AM
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DarthJak wrote:
cymonguk wrote:



anyone say over organised?


can anyone spell organized? LOLLOL


Well i "Organize" lol, everything down to my C's cards & figs... Basically i do it by faction, i tried set but then i think it gets too confusing after awhile..

So now for my Uc's & C's i went out & got an Ultrapro binder (you can get at k-mart/walmart etc) & when you get one of them getting the 9x9 sleeve pages arent hard. So i got them by faction in there, basically to seperate the faction so i can open right up to what i want i got them little colored tabs you would put in a school book to organize subjects.. Works pretty good. (Also the ultrapro sleeve pages can fit a card in a sleeve so it protects good)

& for my VR's & R's i got a basic card toploading box, seperate by faction & somewhat like wannabemexican does it by pt cost & force users etc. Put them in a sleeve & then top loader, figure at K-mart you can get 25 top loaders for $2.50 which isnt bad. Or like my brother does, he got the little sleeve page books with each page 4x4 which saves alot of space for his rares.

Now for my figures i just go with tackle boxes, basically got 1 for my VR's & R's, & the little dividers make it easy to organize by faction. & Same with all of my uc's & c's. & for my huge stuff, i went to family dollor & baught little plastic containers with snap on lids that arent much money, basically if you wanna travel how i do is just take what im gonna use or what i maybe trade (in figures that is) my books & card box stay in m y school bag. & my figures are in a suitcase bag so my collection is pretty portable & i got like 800+....

cymonguk
Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:28:52 PM
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DarthJak wrote:
cymonguk wrote:



anyone say over organised?


can anyone spell organized? LOLLOL


what about colour?

or say "lef" - tenant (lieutenant)

:)
wannabe mexican
Posted: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:42:13 AM
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DarthJak wrote:
cymonguk wrote:



anyone say over organised?


can anyone spell organized? LOLLOL


Everyone was indeed spelling organised correctly until you came and douched things up with your mongrel-'english' good sir!
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