General Forum

At one point, probably late 1996, I got the idea to put my entire collection in sleeves. I put all my comics in bags so why not cards?  But it made them nearly impossible to stack. I saved all the sleeves in an empty box and still pull from that original, 20 year old stash when I come across a card that needs one. 

A Topps set of 792 in penny sleeves will not fit in a 900 card box.  

Personally,  I do not like storing cards that I have sleeved into a box.   The top of the plastic tends to bend and I am afraid it will screw up something.

I also find it very difficult to pull sleeved cards out of a box. 

Which penny sleeves/boxes do you use? Mine fit just fine. I use Ultra Pro 2 5/8 x 3 5/8 sleeves and standard BCW 800 count boxes.

I have my whole collection dispersed between three BCW 3200 count full lid boxes (2 for basketball 1 for baseball). I don't use penny sleeves anymore, as I have been told they can cause patterns to show up on the card and foil to stick. 

However I still have standard ultra pro penny sleeves for shipping trades in toploaders.

When I used to have some cards in peny sleeves in the 3200 count boxes, they were harder for me to get a hold of them to pull them out of the box because of how slippery they were. I assume in single row boxes it would be easier to manage though. 

Oh also a tip if you are thinking of going with boxes, BCW sells what are called "monster pads" that you can use to keep cards standing up straight when a row is not completely filled. I would recommend using those as you don't need to lean the cards over or worry about them falling over and getting out of order or damaged. Just a single pad fits snug enough to hold the cards up, but since I got so many in my shipment, I usually will just fill the entire rest of the row up with the pads. Keeps everything secure. They are also good for keeping cards from falling over if you take a large chunk out of the middle of the row for whatever reason to look through them. 

Well, its a good idea, but I'd rather not throw down $10-$15 for pieces of foam.  I'd rather make a homemade box filler thing at home for free.  I have used balled up newspaper in the past, which works ok, but I'm not sure if that would damage the cards or not.

sahal694 wrote:

I have my whole collection dispersed between three BCW 3200 count full lid boxes (2 for basketball 1 for baseball). I don't use penny sleeves anymore, as I have been told they can cause patterns to show up on the card and foil to stick. 

However I still have standard ultra pro penny sleeves for shipping trades in toploaders.

When I used to have some cards in peny sleeves in the 3200 count boxes, they were harder for me to get a hold of them to pull them out of the box because of how slippery they were. I assume in single row boxes it would be easier to manage though. 

Oh also a tip if you are thinking of going with boxes, BCW sells what are called "monster pads" that you can use to keep cards standing up straight when a row is not completely filled. I would recommend using those as you don't need to lean the cards over or worry about them falling over and getting out of order or damaged. Just a single pad fits snug enough to hold the cards up, but since I got so many in my shipment, I usually will just fill the entire rest of the row up with the pads. Keeps everything secure. They are also good for keeping cards from falling over if you take a large chunk out of the middle of the row for whatever reason to look through them. 

Yeah if I remember right, they were a little pricey on the BCW website. I ended up getting them off ebay for cheap. I think it was Steel City Collectibles, but I could be wrong.