[gmunny]

How do you organize your chips? By Casino, Denom, Mold, Color, or?? Also, how do you sort within the main group, alpha or other? I am having trouble on organizng my chips and just wondering how other do it? Thanks

[Gaming Ore]

Great question and you will see a lot of different answers!

I have mine in a temporary mode until I find (and want to invest) in a better way. Each chip is in a 2" x 2" flip. I place them into boxes that hold 2" x 2" flips in two rows and about 100 deep.

I have the boxes grouped into specific areas of interest, as follows:

Nevada
Atlantic City
Indian (Native American)
Riverboats
Illegals
Foreign
Wet
US Card Rooms/Casinos
Roulettes

All chips are files alphabetically by casino, and by denomination within a casino.

Jim (Gaming Ore) Follis

[Midnight Rose]

Gmunny, this is gonna sound like one of those weird quirks discussed in that other thread, but I'm using two of the 2-sided binders from Target that you advised (and will soon have to get another one). I've changed the way I've sorted them a number of times trying to get it right, but this method seems to work well for me right now:

Binder 1 side 1: Michigan, Canadian and international chips
Binder 1 side 2: Vegas chips
Binder 2 side 1: Casino chips from other areas
Binder 2 side 2: Fantasy/home game chips (this will soon need its own binder)

Each binder side is sub-categorized by state, city, or country (depending on how many chips I have from a particular area), then each page per side is in alpha order by casino for that area. So one page might have all the Atlantic City chips I have, the next page would be California, etc. For the chips I have in quarter-to-five sets, most of those are kept on a separate binder page than the individual chips from that area.

I may not be able to find anything else in this messy house, but I know where my chips are at all times.

[Ranman]

I agree, very good question. I was going to ask the same thing.

With my collection growing faster than I realize I have come to the conclusion that the KISS (Keep it simple stupid) method is needed.

This more relates to the fact that I have my collection listed on a web site but if you look at my collection page I have my chips split into 8 categories currently on 9 pages plus my trader page. As I get more chips from many different places and the $1-$2.50-$5 sets I've started to collect and want to display, I now realize it's too many and I need to trim it down to make it easier to sort and log my collection whether on my site or in my binders.

Right now I find I don't have enough time to catalog new chips into all these categories, determine if chips I have in my "current" category are now obsolete and then having to move them around. I've just made the maintenance of my collection (on my site anyway) too complicated for the amount of time I have available. My new acquisitions pile up waiting for time to take care of them but as they pile up they require more time to deal with and it snowballs like this until that very rare occurrence that I get a free weekend to take care of things . I have 30-40 chips now I need to deal with but can't get to .

I am now considering trashing my current layout and re-doing my whole site (more time to try and find). I will probably cut it down to 4 main categories similar to how Rose does it. Vegas/Nevada, Other American, Foreign, Fantasy/Custom. Within each category I will sort by area (state, country etc) and then probably alphabetically.

Oh, BTW... Just to make this more time consuming I've also started to put my collection in the Collectors Assistant software I just started using and learning.
Damn OCD!

***Mini thread jack***
Can you or Rose show that binder you are talking about. A pic and/or P/N would be great. Thanks

Ranman

[ross]

I have my collection similar to Jim's. They are in cardboard flips then put into boxes with some set catagories...

Atlantic City
Colorado
Europe
Nevada
Puerto Rico
NCV
Las Vegas
California
Hard Rock
Binions Horseshoe
Palms (this one might go away)
United States
Foreign
Canada
Wet Chips

Within each box it is denomination (house chips up front). In the case of AC chips I use Archie's catalog number which will essentially put them in Casino/Denomination/Release date order

Here are some of the boxes on the shelf


Here's what I am too lazy to file... maybe today

[Matthew]

My collection is small enough to go by denomination and the only group that is split further is white or blue $1.

Baseball cards on the other hand are in card boxes by year-manufacturer-sequential order for complete sets and then year-teams for doubles and year-manufactures-sequential order for all other duplicates.

[Midnight Rose]

Originally Posted by Ranman

***Mini thread jack***
Can you or Rose show that binder you are talking about. A pic and/or P/N would be great. Thanks

Ran, I just searched Target.com and called two local stores, and came up blank. Then I tried to take pictures of the binders, but either I'm a horrible photographer or my camera is crap (or both), but they came out just plain ugly. I'm headed to the MTPL game in a bit; since we're taking Pink Shirt Poker pics, I'll ask Wedge or MID to take some pics for you. In the meantime, if you to go the home office section of Target and look for "Case-it" 2-sided 3-ring binders, you can't miss it.

[jamby]

Nice idea for a poll.

Mine are in cardboard flips stored in binders and organized by casino. I've pretty much modeled my organization on The Chip Rack and the U.S. Guide books.

-jamby

[Couga]

That is a tough question.

Well as I have more chips in playable sets from closed casinos I would have to say by casino. However my collectable chips are first seperated by denomination. Then by alpabetical location (by State) then by alphabetical casino name.

- Couga

[i run 8s]

I use a few methods. My NCV HS collection is in flips in 9 pocket pages and binders, as is my Crystal Park collection (1 of each chip) that I have. The common, inexspesive chips are also in flips by states. The more costly Items are in snap tights and storage boxes.