Where do you store your collection?

[SilvrSpidey]

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but I would like to know what the concensus is on where people store/should store their comic collections. I have a smaller, but slow growing collection of high grade silver-age CGC'd books and as the collection value has risen, so has my concern over where I should be keeping it. Especially with encapsulated comics (where you can't just pop open a box and read through your books), do you keep them in a locked safe at home, or maybe in a safety deposit box? And if at home, do most collectors have their books insured (separately or on home owner's policy)? Any advice/comments are appreciated!

[squidmo2000]

The best advice I could give you is move into a neighborhood where no one speaks english and put your books in a closet with a $1.49 lock firmly securing your possesions...........

[SilvrSpidey]

Whew! That's right where I've got 'em!

[squidmo2000]

Hide in plain sight bud........ and keep all the $ books buried under tons of commons.......crooks are lazy,they got no time to go through your collection,and keep a baseball bat within range in case..........

[Ringfinger]

I keep mine under a leaky pipe in my garage.

[richnerd]

I keep mine under a leaky pipe in my garage.

 

Guess I'll cancel that bid on your auctions..

[sckao]

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but I would like to know what the concensus is on where people store/should store their comic collections. I have a smaller, but slow growing collection of high grade silver-age CGC'd books and as the collection value has risen, so has my concern over where I should be keeping it. Especially with encapsulated comics (where you can't just pop open a box and read through your books), do you keep them in a locked safe at home, or maybe in a safety deposit box? And if at home, do most collectors have their books insured (separately or on home owner's policy)? Any advice/comments are appreciated!

 

I use my comic boxes as furniture all over the house. Throw a tablecloth over a stack and you have a dining room table. Arrange it right and you have a recliner or a couch! Put a Plywood slab and a mattress over a bunch of them on the floor and you have a bed with no damage to the actual comics!.

 

Yes, I'm getting a divorce soon...

 

(If they're an investment, I probably would put them somewhere safe or insure them... yes. I personally don't have any comics worth thousands of dollars individually so I'm not too concerned with someone trying to steal 12 tons of comics. )

[toro]

Any place I can find room!

[Darrell F]

In my closet, the spare bedroom, the den and a short box of books to be filed next to the computer.

[Timulty]

By my bed, in my bedroom. Which is currently barred and triple locked. I also have shotgun booby traps set. Nearly took my foot off a week ago.

[divad]

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but I would like to know what the concensus is on where people store/should store their comic collections. I have a smaller, but slow growing collection of high grade silver-age CGC'd books and as the collection value has risen, so has my concern over where I should be keeping it. Especially with encapsulated comics (where you can't just pop open a box and read through your books), do you keep them in a locked safe at home, or maybe in a safety deposit box? And if at home, do most collectors have their books insured (separately or on home owner's policy)? Any advice/comments are appreciated!

 

I use my comic boxes as furniture all over the house. Throw a tablecloth over a stack and you have a dining room table. Arrange it right and you have a recliner or a couch! Put a Plywood slab and a mattress over a bunch of them on the floor and you have a bed with no damage to the actual comics!.

 

Yes, I'm getting a divorce soon...

 

(If they're an investment, I probably would put them somewhere safe or insure them... yes. I personally don't have any comics worth thousands of dollars individually so I'm not too concerned with someone trying to steal 12 tons of comics. )

 

[Ringfinger]

I keep mine under a leaky pipe in my garage.

 

Guess I'll cancel that bid on your auctions..

 

Oops, I meant in the basement, not garage. Different leaky pipe.

[nearmint]

Bulk of stuff is in the house. Expensive stuff is in a safety deposit box. All of it is insured with a policy separate from our homeowners.

[Mr. Zipper]

By my bed, in my bedroom. Which is currently barred and triple locked.

 

Other than someone looking to steal comics, is anyone really trying to get into your bedroom?

 

[Timulty]

By my bed, in my bedroom. Which is currently barred and triple locked.

 

Other than someone looking to steal comics, is anyone really trying to get into your bedroom?

 

 

You can never be too careful.