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red_bus
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:09 pm

Am currently tidying up some of my collection (by way of displacement activity

). At the moment I have a large amount of modules and gaming magazines stored upright (some bagged and boarded, some not), in boxes and on shelves.

I have an option to store some of them in shallow plastic boxes - but they would have to lie flat. Say about 12 per box (so the pressure on the bottom ones would not be too great).

Good idea?

Bad idea?

NB: I am aware at the time of typing just how geeky this sounds

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Plaag
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:23 pm

Can you not turn the plastic boxes upright?

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red_bus
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:41 pm

Good idea - they have chunky handles on the sides so it wouldn't work - but full marks for lateral thinking!!

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Mars
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:57 pm

I find it tough to find boxes that fit magazines standing upright very well. I usually end up using boxes that printer paper comes in and putting the magazines in with the spines up.

Sea-to-sky-games
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:01 pm

Dragon mags and boxsets I'd lay flat. Modules, I'd stand them up.

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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:00 am

If you laid your Dragons flat, wouldn't their covers bend around themselves in a curlique-like manner?

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Mars
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:10 am

grodog wrote:If you laid your Dragons flat, wouldn't their covers bend around themselves in a curlique-like manner?

You can alternate a few of them to even out the stack.

napoleonsdad
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:54 pm

I'm from the store them upright school. It's too easy to set something a wee bit heavy on a stack of boxes resulting in crushing damage.

Sea-to-sky-games
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:12 pm

You can alternate a few of them to even out the stack.

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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:27 pm

I just go to Wal-Mart (boo, hiss!) and get the little plastic magazine racks, slide some cardboard in on the sides to keep the gaps from hurting anything, and then stick the mags/modules in there, and stand them upright, on a bookshelf. But, I don't have anywhere near the number of what others do, so for me its a cheap and effective way.. and, I can still get to them (most of my collection is a "play collection") when, or if, I want to.

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