For all my damn slabs...

I have storage issues - but let's be honest with ourselves, unless you collect something really small, say - stamps...hold on, hold on - my friend's dad passed away year before last and there were stamps everywhere in his 3-bedroom ranch house...boxes, books, sheets, letters from overseas friends formed during WWII, African stamps, Nazi Germany stamps - there were stamps EVERYWHERE...and then we found more; oh and he had a ting for maps (me too) so then there were three sea-chests full of maps: National Geographic, National Parks, road maps, city maps...

That having been said - I (we I assume, since you are reading this) collect comics and proper storage required space - even raw comics, miles upon miles of raw comics, take up space - but my slabbed books, well they're a problem.

I don't even have that many slabbed books, 150 maybe (?), but they are starting to infringe on the available space. I had been planning on ordering comic boxes designed to accommodate slabs, but every time I do I end up with 'issues' with getting the boxes - so I have subsequently given up, and no-one had any supplies for us slab hunters at Emerald City CC. Which is frustrating - Seattle is not a small city - and the con is both big and well attended, but all I ever get is a bunch of $1 books and some hammered SA & BA books and maybe 3-5 slabs that someone has overpriced on their back wall - because we're all loggers and fishermen in western Washington and we don't know how to surf the internet for auction sites or have even the slightest idea what stuff really sells for on-line, so I'll be happy to buy your book for 50% more than GPA. But no slab supplies.

So...I was poking about with my books last night (or the night before) and I noticed that I had a couple options: I can either store my slabs in Magazine sized boxes, that are readily available at my LCS and have the lid not close 100%, which is OK; or I can store them sideways, lengthwise, in a short comic box with a little room left over - which I am figuring I can fill with old packing material (because I have sooooo much of that from CGC, Comiclink, Heritage....blah, blah, blah).

I'm thinking the best bet is for me to clear out some old stuff that I don't care very much about (X-men anyone?) and use the newly empty boxes for the portion of the collection that I do care about...

Anyone else have any inventive solutions for storing your slabs?

Happy Hunting

Lee