General Forum

Around March I finally got a new card binder just for my personal collection. It has been slowly growing until now, after a lot of summer trades, it's nearly overfull. My question is would it be safe to keep pages of cards in just a regular old school binder? Or should I bite the bullet and get another decent one?

I use them.  But the bottoms of the sheets seem to hang lower than the bottom of the cover on some.  So maybe it depends on whether you stand them up or lie the down.

I've found that regular binders work just has well as card-specific binders, just buy D-ring and not round ring. Granted, I don't store a lot of cards in binders, and the couple I do have I lay flat on my shelf.

I second Olerud363, go for the regular D-ring binder. All pocket pages are usually 3 ring standard and there's no need to pay extra for a bland graphic on a cover you won't really see if you store your binder vertically (in a library). Also, if you can wait a week or two, they'll be on sale pretty much everywhere (back to school specials).

My five year old daughter gets growing pains. Wakes her up at night — which wakes me up at night. They are a real PITA.

Oh, wait, not those growing pains... ignore me.

Thanks everyone :)

Virtually all of my cards are in binders. A have a few card-specific ones, mostly from the old days or received as gifts. Now I will use any binder I can get my hands on. They work just fine. D-rings are much better, but even round rings are ok, but you have to very careful that you're not bending the cards when you put the binder away, because some might be conforming to the curve. 

Depending on the size of your collection, I think binders are the way to go. Easily accessible. Protect the cards. But as the collection grows, they can become pretty expensive and space consuming. 

Anyway, enjoy. 

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