My collection has evolved for over the past 40 years. I have stored, organized, cataloged, changed, moved more times than I can remember. I am constantly looking for way to better store and catalog my collection. Wish it was easy to do but with well over 75,000 cards it can be daunting. So listed below is how I have attempted to store my and organize my collection.
This is how I store my collection
The Ultimate Hockey card Catalog (one card for every set ever made, (euro, main, insert, parallel, minor promo)
Storing these by year for 1990 to present, decade for the periods before. Was trying to put in sequence with spaces for wants in-line with my excel spreadsheet but find it difficult with cards sets found that are not listed in my spreadsheet.
Colorado Avalanche Catalog
Storing these cards by player in binders, I use to store them by year, might go back to that. For the GU and Auto I have those in P-touch holders in two monster boxes by player.
Boston Bruins Catalog
Just in a monster box for now but will transfer to binders by player.
My set collections are in binders.
My auto collection is in a binder alphabetical.
PC's are in binders in sequence with missing cards spaced.
Now on to the trade list items are presently in boxes by year, possibly going to a player sort for the star players. This has been the hardest thing about my collection, trying to figure out a better way to store and catalog that makes it easier to find cards for trade, sell and to donate.
Real curious to find out how others have setup their trade list, store and catalog.
List by player?
List by team?
List by set?
What do you prefer when looking through a tradelist?
How do you store and catalog your collection?
Does anyone use a program, dbase, excel to catalog their collection? If so what?
Any suggestions or comments?
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Mark