Night Owl Cards

  Today would have been my mom's 84th birthday if she hadn't left us five years ago now. My mom was vigilant when it came to neatness. It was a big deal. Then God laughed and gave her three boys. She waged a mission against messiness daily, but it was often a losing battle.  Out of the three of us, I inherited the neatness gene. But it still wasn't good enough. Before I had my card room, I'd often sort cards in the living room and when my parents came to visit, there would be stacks of cards around the house. My mom would say to my wife, "they're right in the living room ," as if only certain things were allowed in the living room.   She'd be pretty pleased with the card room now. I admit I am, too. I gravitate toward items that make the hobby neater, although my mom probably would be happier with a collector who had just 10 items in their collection and a tiny little display. One of those neatness tools is binder pages. I love how binders and pages tu...

  A couple of comments in my last post, combined with a long-overdue discovery, combined with the mailman apparently not feeling like delivering on my street today, led to this post.   Some folks mentioned yesterday how they skip oversized cards because of the difficulty in storing them. I'm assuming this mostly pertains to fitting them into pages, because you can probably find a box to fit just about anything card-like, unless it's enormous.   I've never shunned non-regulation-sized cards because they don't fit 9 pockets, if I like them, I'll get them, no matter what size. But I understand, as a binder guy, not having a place to store them. I felt that particular collector pain for a long time. Because I didn't have all the different page configurations.   But I do now. I have 2 pockets, 4 pockets, 3 pockets, 8 pockets, 15 pockets, just waiting to complete a mission.   I've shown this binder before, a couple of times. It's what I use to store cards and ...