Night Owl Cards

Greetings from my living room, which is now cluttered with cardboard. This is my annual Dodgers dupes box organization. And I'm about two months late with it, too. My mission with this annual activity is to incorporate all the dupes I've accumulated in the past year into the main dupes box. But there are two other missions within that main mission: 1) To get rid of some cards. 2) To find cards I need. Those are polar opposite mini-missions. The first is sad and the second is happy. And I'm pleased to say I'm succeeding with both. I am hell bent on getting rid of cards I simply don't need. I have no problem keeping a few dupes of each card because you never know when you'll require one on demand or someone will need one. But where once I would have no problem with having 10-or-more of any card, I've since cut that down to five of each, and now it's down to three. Sometimes it's less than that (sometimes it's more for certain key cards)...

A couple of online conversations both on the blogs and Twitter recently have made me think a little bit about my persistent battle to avoid being known as a pack rat. I admit there's a little pack rat in me. I'm a collector, it's part of the job description. But I try to keep the accumulation mostly to pieces of cardboard -- the right size of cardboard -- and limit everything else. I also try to store items in a way that makes sense, both to me and to other people who live with me. I've addressed my sorting and storage habits in past posts. But I don't think I've done it all at one time, in a single post. So I'm going to do that here. I don't really expect it to help anyone. It's not a perfect system. As far as bloggers, some are more organized and some are less (I'm sure you know who is who, I don't need to name names). But it's ideal for me. SORTING My glorious roll top  card desk is the sorting station. When packages co...