The great organization of 2020

I got all my cards logged and ready to go for the month yesterday, but today I spent awhile in my den going through all my boxed cards. I told you that I went through all the cards in my books and made sure everything was logged on to TCDB. Well next up is everything else. Since I started my collections, I've organized my player collections and my Michigan collection in books but the White Sox collection and Vintage collection cards have all just gone into boxes (and a dresser when I set up the den) so I needed to separate all of them. So that's what I did today.

I put all the vintage into sets and just put all the White Sox aside to do later. I went through every card and pulled out all the White Sox cards out of the vintage as well as pulled all of my player collections out of both the vintage and White Sox. Here's how it all ended.

Those are all the White Sox cards. Those are going to take forever to check the database against. I haven't decided to do it by player or by set yet. If you've done this before, I'll take suggestions. Right now I'm leaning towards player.

These are all the 80's and 70's cards. The bulk of it being 80's if you couldn't tell.

There's all the 80's (up to 1987 because that's the last year of the collection). You should see Topps, Fleer and Donruss for each year from 1981-1987.

Here's all the 70's and 1980 at the end. You can see the 1973 set is quite a bit higher then the rest although 1979 isn't real far behind. I thought the 70's would look a little more fuller than it is but it is what it is.

Here's the 50's and 60's which isn't terribly impressive. It would look a little better if I had my Sox cards because I have a lot more from these years that are Sox cards. You'll notice I left space for Bowman and Fleer from the early days as well. The empty spaces I do have cards for but they are Sox. I do not have anything from 1952 yet though.

These were all the player collection cards I pulled out of the Sox and Vintage collections. The majority of those will end up being duplicates once I check them. Once I check them with my books I'll have a better idea. When I first started my collections, I tried to get a card for each collection so if I had a White Sox player collection in the 80's, I would get 1 card for the player collection, one for the White Sox collection and once for the vintage collection. I eventually decided that was dumb for myself because I'm a budget shopper and why would I set myself up to having to get duplicates so I eventually merged them all but I hadn't gotten around to pulling the duplicates, so a lot of those are that.

Once I broke that stack down to players, here's what it looks like. I wish all those Konerko's were all new to the player collection, talk about a huge boost.

The first thing I do will check these against what I already have. Then I'm going to start checking all my vintage collections and make sure everything is logged.

While working on these cards today, I decided that this was the great organization of 2020. Once everything is done, it will be a piece of cake to add stuff. I'm pretty good at adding all new items in now, I just have to get caught up with all the stuff I already had.