{"id":8001,"date":"2024-01-12T13:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcwsupplies.com\/blog\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:09:45","slug":"winter-got-you-down-sort-your-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcwsupplies.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/12\/winter-got-you-down-sort-your-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Got You Down? Sort Your Cards!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Matt Gilman of Cards Over Coffee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2024<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you see this picture and think, ugh, this means you have the winter blues. Most of us get the winter blues. I know I do. However, I am here to tell you that there is a way to beat the winter blues and keep yourself busy in the hobby during the long months of winter. This is what I do to keep myself distracted from the white stuff and more focused on the card stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\"Stacks<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around the beginning of November, I quit sorting and try to get as many mail days as I can. I will make a lot of trades, some purchases and open up a few packs then load it all onto my desk. Some of the mail days around Christmas time I even keep sealed until Christmas then open those ones and add to my desk. So what does this do? Well, it gives you some serious cards to sort and I usually start doing so right after Christmas when I feel winter really starts to kick into full gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cards<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It begins with a smaller card sorting tray where I sort the cards by sport, parallel, insert, base cards, hits, teams I collect, players I collect, and sets I am chasing.
Since there are usually more cards than what these trays hold, I then transfer the cards pile by pile to deeper sorting trays that I have sitting on the floor of my card room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cards<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From there, I empty out the smaller tray into the deeper ones and begin this process all over until I run out of cards. Each pile I created in the deep trays goes into their section in my collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"BCW<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of the cards go into these boxes that I need to make more creative labels for sometime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Card<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The rest fill binders, following the Binder Numbering System I wrote about in my last article.
The process overall takes a long time to sort, put away and sometimes get distracted with a new project or updated sorting idea along the way. I have had many of those times.
So a good part of your winter will be spent sorting and hence curing those winter blues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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