so i don’t think there is a topic like this yet? i’m very curious how everyone is keeping and organising their card things.
i know some of you are able to fit everything you need into one shoebox, some of you have a lot more boxes, like me. i wanna see it all!
so let me start by showing you where, what and how i organise my postcrossing related things.
firstly, everything i need is here:
then there’s another black and white box for basically everything else.
one box for stickers, one for rubber stamps i never use because i’m too impatient (and smelly chocolate stickers i just found out i have)
so that’s all my stuff. now i see that it all fits into 4 photo’s it feels like i have less than i thought i did (maybe we can all pretend we don’t see the 8 postcard boxes).
but yeah. show us what you all use for postcrossing (if you make cards yourself i’m sure you have a lot of different things) and how you organise all you have.
Mine are not very organised yet. I just keep everything in the packaging it came in, but already the postcards have gotten all mixed up which means going through them every time to find one.
And my received postcards are displayed on my fridge and bookshelves around the house
I have my postboxes so disorganized! On the left from my desk, the “current” box with assorted stuff, on top stamps and in the writing process cards, plus stickers and tapes, more tapes and received cards box on top of scanner, underneath another received box and icebreaker collection album
In my wishful fantasy, I’am organized like in the pictures shown. Boxes on a shelf.
In reality … we’ll let’s say it’s very good that I am living alone. So I am the only one who has to perform parcours to get from my desk to the kitchen.
One of the biggest challenges: to sort newly-bought postcards into the fitting box. (not only because for some it’s not clear whether they fit tradition- or art- or people-category, but the sheer task itself
that’s actually one of my favourite things to do. going through my cards, see what i all have and put them all together.
the only bad thing is that i always like my newest cards the best and i feel a bit guilty towards my older cards.
Oh, what wonderful pictures to look at (did I see a camel Washi there???)!
My kind of “storage” is not very helpful: inside my flat! Hahaha!
What would be better: inside my house (but I don’t have a house! )
When my mother, regularly, asks “how do you store your many cards?” I always think she wants to be controversial, as she knows full well, how I store everything… around my flat!
So I always have to sort through boxes or bags of cards to find the (hopefully) “right” card!
Anyway, you well organized people are so inspiring!
I sort my received cards chronologically and my ready-to-send cards by “first impression”: put them all face down, then turn them over one by one and take note of the first thing that pops into my head. For example, I have categories “animals” and “old/vintage”, among others. A vintage photo of a cat could fit either of those categories, but if I let my monkey brain tell me the first thing it sees when I flip it over and put it in that category, I know I’ll be able to find it again because it will be the first place I think to look.
Sounds like a good way to decide, im which category you put a card.
I already fail to decide on categories. So by now, I just put new cards next to those cards that are most similar. Yet their number is still low enough so I can mostly remember what I’ve got or where to search the right card when I get a profile.