Getting Started

When I first got back into collecting, I decided to organize all my old cards and put them into binders.  That is my Winter Project for the year.  But I just realized I have a lot of work ahead of me.

Here are all my cards, as well as all my minis.  That green thing in the middle of the one pic?  That is Donatello from the newest Ninja Turtles figures line, added for a sense of scale for the boxes.  I think I have a lot of work ahead of me

And here are my baseball cards.  Not a huge collection, but enough to get started organizing.  I also took a pic of my 1987 and 1991 Twins box sets that I got for Christmas the years they won the world series.  REALLY WANT TO GET ANOTHER ONE OF THESE TWINS!!! AND ONE FOR THE VIKINGS TOO!!!

This is my original card box/a mobile command center for my G.I. Joe guys.  once I filled it up with cards, the Joes didn't ride in it, I just pretended they did.  Then I got the Baseball Card boxes and it was filled with assorted cards.  Can't see all of them, but what can bee seen from here is cards from the first Ninja Turtles movie, Empire Strikes Back (series 2) Batman Returns, and Garbage Pail Kids.  Can also see part of a card from a McDonald's/Vikings promotional set.

This is most of my CCGs.  Not all of them because I couldn't find a binder full of Star Wars TCG cards.  I think they got misplaced when I moved last.  I went looking in my storage shed, but it was getting cold and I couldn't look long.  I'll find them and add them in the spring.  That box on top?  It has some duplicates from the Star Wars TCG, as well as some other games, but is mostly Magic Cards.  that is the closest I ever got to organizing my collection.

All my Minis.  Might not look like much, but most of those boxes are filled to the point that they were hard to close again.  and that box on the right?  All ships from Pirates Of The Spanish Main.  I had a ton of them from when it was really popular at the local coffee shop.  I inherited a collection about the same size as mine from a guy that moved after it was starting to die out and asked if I wanted them.  That binder and that clear box?  Those are mine (as well as another box just like it below the binder) the rest?  His largely unorganized collection.

And this is a box full of cards that I have gotten since I started collecting again, mostly thanks to Mega Packs I have found (100 cards for $5.  great way to get older cards)  I will be sorting these, as well as any other cards I get between now and then, after I have organized my original collection.