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I recently bought a massive card collection and they are currently filling my garage now. I mean FILLING! I'm in the process of moving them into the basement. I bought shelving and a high-powered dehumidfier. I have to figure out how to organize the cards and I'm currently going through all of the Orioles cards. I've cataloged and logged all of the Orioles sets from 1954 up through the 90s. Once I hit the 80s, I started to run into some duplicate cards that were already in my collection. So, I'm literally looking at each card with a magnifying glass and swapping out the duplicates to put the best card in my Orioles collection. Looking for off-centering, dinged corners, chipped edges, out of registration printing, color print density, moire patterns in the printing, spots, etc... finding the best card and swapping it. It's quite an undertaking but it does improve my collection one card at a time. I have a ton of cards to go through. I'm currently in 1991 Topps. The collection I bought fizzles out around 1994. Once Topps is done, I'll go back and do the same for the Donruss, Fleer, and Score cards. After the Orioles cards, I have to go through and see what I else I've got. There's complete sets I have to go through and catalog as well. I'd like to get back to trading sometime soon! I guess in the meantime, this keeps me busy.

Short answer is yes, I'm lookling at my cards. More for organization purposes at the moment, but appreciating them all the same.

HAPPY COLLECTING!!!

Not so much right now, as I'm still organizing and building a permanent storage for them.  But my plan is to watch baseball games with my son and show him the cards of the players in hopes that he'll become a fan as well.

Take them out?  They're everywhere!!!   lol

This is a cool way to display your cards! What's the product called, and where can I get it?!

I am currently in the process of creating a user list for essentially my "PC".  Once that is finished I will see how many cards that is and probably purchase some smaller boxes and have them physically pulled from the rest of my collection.  I am thinking that this will help me have a bit more of a focused collection, and have the cards I am interested in looking at most more easily accessed in the smaller boxes.  We will see how this goes.  I have tried this in the past but then ended up giving up.  But I think I have a better system this time.  

Would you believe I actually already gave up shortly after typing this?  I am finding I just don't have that much time for the hobby to even do a project like this.  Seems more of a chore than fun right now.  Maybe another time... again.