Night Owl Cards

  Here it is. A plain, black, nondescript binder. Another key addition to my collection.   I'm not as creative as some collectors with their binder presentation, with year-accurate labels and every binder the same color, but I do proudly display a collection in binders. They are out in the open where everyone can see them -- not that I'm taking tickets to my card room. The cards that are in boxes are tucked away on shelves or in drawers.   I'm never comfortable stashing cards in boxes. I know that's what I did as a kid, before I discovered binders. But when binders showed up, it opened a whole new world. Cards are a visual medium and binders offer the best way to present a visual theme.   I feel the same way about any collectible publications that I own, yearbooks and programs and the like. But because that's a side part of my collection, I've stored them in bins without much of a thought -- until a revelation a couple weeks ago.     I mentioned last month ...

I've been eagerly awaiting the binders that Kenny from Torren' Up Cards had promised me a couple of months ago. I know that sounds sad. What has my life become? Waiting by the mail box for something I can pick up down the street for a couple of bucks? But ever since I've gotten my card room in order, with everything in their place on their respective shelves, I've come to terms with exactly how many binders I need and that I don't have enough of them. I counted the total amount of binders with cards in them. I have 91. Yeah, that sounds like a lot. It's not enough. I believe I need about 100 to have everything worth storing in a binder stored in a binder. I could probably comfortably store all that without having overflow issues. But nine more binders amounts to money I don't want to spend (the bargain-basement binders at the dollar store or wherever fall apart too easily for my liking). So free binders in the mail? Yes, please! Kenny sent me...