Of course, when you still require the Wayne Gretzky rookie card for your set, you can have 395 cards and still feel like you are about a thousand cards short.
Nonetheless, I now have the second and third-best cards in this set:
#175 - Gordie Howe
#185 - Bobby Hull
I got a few other key cards, including...
#161 - Mike Bossy (Record Breakers)
#100 - Bryan Trottier
#215 - Bernie Federko
#145 - John Tonelli (RC)
#164 - Brad Park (Record Breakers)
#225 - Jean Ratelle
#1 - Goal Leaders (Bossy/Dionne/Lafleur)
Another 218 cards--plus a Gretzky RC--to complete this landmark set. In the meantime, I'll continue to chip away at it, a few cards here and there.
QUESTION: At what point do you "page" your sets? That is, when do you put a near-complete set into pages? Do you get a certain percentage, like at least half? Or do you wait until you have every single card? Or, do you not use pages at all...?
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As soon as I can afford to buy a binder and pages. I like watching the pages fill up.
I don't really think about it when I do it, but I'd estimate it happens around 80% completion.
Great pickups. A set like this I would certainly page immediately. Personally it depends on the set, if it is a larger set or a set that will take me a while to finish I certainly will page it right away.
Sets like UD series 1 and 2 etc I usually will leave in a box and never page or page when they are done.
Great set to start. I am still working on the 82-83 OPC set. I will have to check your wanted page to see if I have any of the 79-80 cards you need. No Gretz, though!
I never page my cards any more. It got to be too insane storing the binders. Boxes are fine for me.
Nice haul. I agree with Dave H, I have limited space so a set has to be something special to be considered binder-worthy. Something like 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee would go into the binder pretty early on, maybe once I hit 1/3 of the set or so...
I'd page it immediately.
What I have stopped doing for sets in progress is leaving space for cards I don't have. What I found is that when there are too many spaces in the binder, the pages aren't rigid enough and they'll flex under their own weight, causing a slight bend in cards on the bottom row.
So now I keep them in pages, but when I'm about half-way done, I'll reorganize them to leave the proper gaps. (I don't bother sorting them because I don't want to have to shuffle them about. New cards go at the back.)
For sets where I've already left holes and I'm not at that magic 50% mark, I just make sure there's not enough room in the binder for the sheets to bend. Cardboard will help. Or store them flat.
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Good luck on the set, it'll be fun to follow as you build it.
As for the pages, I never really cared for them. I keep all my cards in boxes. Sets go into penny sleeves and then 800 ct. boxes, which I keep in card houses (each house stores 12 800 ct. boxes). My PC cards are in top loaders or magnetic holders, all kept in a Monster Box. The only pages I have are for my mini cards since they are a pain to store otherwise. I keep them in enclosed three-ring binders.
For a set like the one you're completing here, probably between 40-50% complete before I would put into pages...
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