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In the world of a card collector who puts everything in binders, counting is done in base 9.  Yet, still many cool insert sets have 10 cards.  I have a several of these and no satisying way to put them in pages.  Any other binder world collectors find any creative ways to handle this aside from putting one card back to back or using a second page with just one lonely card?

You could use 6 pocket sheets.  The width is the same. 

The Insert sets that I put in sheets are those with the base set themselves, all in the same binder.  So what I do is that at the end of the base set, I leave one pocket empty, then start the first Insert set. At the end of the that one, one empty pocket and start the next Insert set, and so on.  If that brings me to an extra page for one or two cards, I will even skip leaving the empty pocket between Inserts.  But I do the calculation of how many pockets I need for all the Inserts I plan on including before I even start putting cards in the sheets.

I remember many years ago cellotaping a penny sleeve to the edge of a nine pocket page so I could keep all 10 of this set together... 

Instead of the edge like Dodgy...

Tape a sleeve to one of the pockets, then you could flip it up...

Might be what Dodgy is doing... Don't mean to step on his toes on the issue

if that is what he means....

I'm with Bruno you just get another insert set and start with the next empty pocket and keep going. That's what I did with many of the Ultra basketball subsets.

I only collect the inserts of 1 team, and put them all in one album. I collect them by manufacturer listed in alphabetical order for each year. I only have two 49er sets like that. I plan on getting a frame big enough to hang them on the wall.

I like that idea

With some careful cutting, you can turn a 9-pocket page into a 5-pocket page (cut the bottom row off and then the right-hand sleeve on the middle row off). It might look a bit odd, but if you put two of those pages at the back of the binder so there aren't any other full pages underneath for cards to show through, it might be okay.

Sometimes I'll leave the top row empty, so there will be six cards on the first page and 4 on the second. Other times I will make a big X pattern (cards in the four corners and one in the middle center) for 2 pages of 5 each.