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<p>[QUOTE="Pat P, post: 81047, member: 201"]Storage has been a major headache for me, but I think I finally have paper storage (mostly) under control.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a wide variety of paper items, in many different sizes. Here's what I'm doing currently for storage. Anything directly touching the items is acid-free and PVC-free.</p><p><br /></p><p>-- Postcards are in small photo albums meant for 3x5" photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>-- Victorian trade cards, greeting cards, etc. are in 3x5" photo albums or the next size up if the item is larger</p><p><br /></p><p>-- Prints, magazine and newspaper ads, photographs, and miscellaneous other ephemera are in Itoya portfolios of varying sizes. I love these portfolios... they make it very easy to safely store the items plus they're easy to look through. Some of these items are also in 12x12" photo albums.</p><p><br /></p><p>-- Very large prints and old newspapers are on shelves in a deep pantry-type cabinet or in flat boxes meant for storing paper.</p><p><br /></p><p>The smaller albums fill up a small bookcase with shallow shelves in my upstairs hallway. The larger photo albums and smaller Itoya portfolios are standing upright in 14" cubes on a closet shelf, with the cube shelves turned so they're vertical.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the larger Itoya portfolios are standing upright in several plastic magazine holders in the bottom of a pantry-type cabinet. The largest ones are lying flat on a shelf in the cabinet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even with all that, I still have a lot of antique and vintage magazines, catalogs, thicker pamphlets, etc., that I wasn't sure how to store. If they're at all heavy, I've found they don't work well in albums or portfolios and aren't well-protected standing up on a shelf. Lying flat on shelves, they were a pain to sort through and at risk of being damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>So... for these items, just this week I purchased some flat Sterilite stackable boxes that are fairly short and have clip-on tops and almost straight sides. They're working really nicely so I'm about to get more in two sizes. I'm putting each item in a plastic sleeve and then stacking the items with the largest on the bottom in each box. I'm going to store the boxes on wire shelves that my husband installed in a closet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whew, I wrote a book! Getting these things safely stored and organized has been a major occupation/preoccupation for me recently, so it's dear to my heart. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pat P, post: 81047, member: 201"]Storage has been a major headache for me, but I think I finally have paper storage (mostly) under control. I have a wide variety of paper items, in many different sizes. Here's what I'm doing currently for storage. Anything directly touching the items is acid-free and PVC-free. -- Postcards are in small photo albums meant for 3x5" photos. -- Victorian trade cards, greeting cards, etc. are in 3x5" photo albums or the next size up if the item is larger -- Prints, magazine and newspaper ads, photographs, and miscellaneous other ephemera are in Itoya portfolios of varying sizes. I love these portfolios... they make it very easy to safely store the items plus they're easy to look through. Some of these items are also in 12x12" photo albums. -- Very large prints and old newspapers are on shelves in a deep pantry-type cabinet or in flat boxes meant for storing paper. The smaller albums fill up a small bookcase with shallow shelves in my upstairs hallway. The larger photo albums and smaller Itoya portfolios are standing upright in 14" cubes on a closet shelf, with the cube shelves turned so they're vertical. Most of the larger Itoya portfolios are standing upright in several plastic magazine holders in the bottom of a pantry-type cabinet. The largest ones are lying flat on a shelf in the cabinet. Even with all that, I still have a lot of antique and vintage magazines, catalogs, thicker pamphlets, etc., that I wasn't sure how to store. If they're at all heavy, I've found they don't work well in albums or portfolios and aren't well-protected standing up on a shelf. Lying flat on shelves, they were a pain to sort through and at risk of being damaged. So... for these items, just this week I purchased some flat Sterilite stackable boxes that are fairly short and have clip-on tops and almost straight sides. They're working really nicely so I'm about to get more in two sizes. I'm putting each item in a plastic sleeve and then stacking the items with the largest on the bottom in each box. I'm going to store the boxes on wire shelves that my husband installed in a closet. Whew, I wrote a book! Getting these things safely stored and organized has been a major occupation/preoccupation for me recently, so it's dear to my heart. :)[/QUOTE]
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