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Friday, March 06, 2026

My mini collections - updated storage setups

Despite being seemingly set with the storage options I had in the meantime - maybe I wanted a more orderly way to funnel my awesome action collection towards a 3,200 count box, rather than in separate boxes.

It's been something that has been in front of me and I finally took a 3,200 count box I had bought at a card shop three weeks ago - to add on top of my other 3,200 count boxes and rejigger how I stored certain awesome action classifications towards one catch-all storage option.

I was expecting to fit everything from my awesome action collections into the box and maybe even some other mini-collections - but while I left gaps to add more cards to the collections in the box, there might not have been the space to add a bigger collection of cards [my fun cards] and one smaller collection of cards [my personality shots].

I made a simplified list of how I store my awesome action cards - there are subsets for each classification / groupings that are not listed in detail.

Making the throws – 1B – Row 1
Making the throws – 2B – Row 1
Making the throws – Double play throws 2B – Row 1
Making the throws – 3B – Row 1
Making the throws – SS – Row 1
Making the throws – Double play throws SS – Row 2
Pitching – Row 2

My dirt fetish cards - took up parts of three rows.

Dirt fetish – A – B – Row 2
Dirt fetish – C – P – Row 3
Dirt fetish – R – Z – Row 4

I added my game face cards to the 3,200 count box - to finish of the cards from my awesome action collections that was going into this one catch-all space.

Game face cards – Row 4

A snapshot of my tower of 3,200 count boxes - to keep things relatively manageable, I don't want to end up being obligated to buy more storage boxes, where it feels overwhelming seeing other collections [people end up trying to sell collections or whatever], where it's just these monolithic boxes that end up a chore to dig through if you need to pull or add more cards.

On the other hand, a 3,200 count box ends up an appropriate storage option [still relatively cheap at under $10, but price might have ticked up] for bulk cards - where I do want to herd a good portion of cards into one sturdy place where I am not losing track where they are in multiple, loose boxes.