Hi all,

After a fairly cursory search I did not see any threads on the best ways to store box sets (from early OD&D sets through to 2nd Ed. campaign settings and even non-D&D RPG box sets). If I have missed one please do let me know. But here is the dilemma: if you store them vertically on a bookshelf (perhaps alongside all your lovely hardback AD&D manuals etc..) they look cool, but will the softcover books and sheets inside bend over time? Most RPG boxes are not jam-packed so there is room for this to happen. Do you put some padding in (e.g. folded bubblewrap) inside? Or, store them flat. Then you can be sure the contents will be OK but unless you want to stack lots on top it takes up a lot of room and looks a bit weird.

What do collectors here do? Upright? Flat? With padding? With the contents removed and stored separately? ... Do tell !!  

If there's room inside the box, I bag and board the contents then add bubble wrap to fill any remaining void. Bag the box and store standing upright with all the others.



Mike

chromaticknight wrote in Storing: (1) Box Sets:If there's room inside the box, I bag and board the contents then add bubble wrap to fill any remaining void. Bag the box and store standing upright with all the others.

Basically I agree, but with a caution: many of these old, fragile boxes have edges that are beginning to disintegrate. So if you slightly overfill it with bubble-wrap, or bag the whole box just a little too tightly, it might cause stress that will cause it to come apart after being stored a long time.

I had a nice box-set storage discovery... I found these 'treasury' size bags at the local fgs:  



The fit TSR boxes perfectly!  Snug around the box edges and corners, no excess plastic to tuck away, and they hold  the box lids tight for upright storage.



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treasury bags are the way to go for box sets. they will fit all tsr, chaosium, fgu, most Avalon hill, etc.

if you find something that won't fit in treasury bags they make some bags that are for folded newspapers that fit larger boxes as well as board games. they come in short and long sizes

10x13 book bags fit ad&d hardback books as well as other larger than mag size items

thick magazine bags will fit those magazine size items that won't fit in normal size mag bags