How do you inventory your cards?

[comatoad]

Whenever I buy cards, I immediately inventory them (unless they're going into my PC, in which case, that's a whole different inventory system).

I use a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.

Qty Last Name First Name Team Set Year No. Notes
1 Keith Duncan Blackhawks Ultra 2005-06 211 RC

I can immediately break it down and tell you how many Hawks, or Keith, or 05-06 Ultra cards, or RCs I have. It works out really nice. I then put them into 5,000 count boxes, with index cards so I can find them just as quick.

How do you inventory your cards? Any suggestions?

[comatoad]

Is anyone else this anal about keeping track of their cards?

[G0SHARKSG0]

I am actually crazy over keeping track of my cards, I change it constantly because I always get people saying that they don't want to read a list, so I made a bucket but then people were saying they didnt like the way I sorted my bucket (by team) so now Im making a new bucket again......I like the microsfot excel idea for a list, Ive just never used it before so I realy woudn't know what I was doing

[darkqug]

I inventory my Kevin Dineen collection with a spreadsheet, but haven't inventoried my entire collection. I do put scans all of my personal collection up on my website, but those aren't inventoried anywhere else. Maybe a spreadsheet for all my collection would be a good project.

[senrab]

I just rummage through the boxes like an idiot. LOL I have no organizational skills at all.

[aweeks]

senrab - lol. i completly agree! apparently females are far less organized then men!
although, outside of hockey cards, i'm a very organized person. weird!

[senrab]

Haha, yes...we're supposed to be the ones who hold it all together. Whoopsie

[OPCfan]

I designed an access database to archive my collection. Have most of it inputted but the application isn't finished. It's a work in progress. I'm thinking of ditching it though. Access is a pain and VBA is the worst programming language ever.

Not sure what I'm going to do with it. Maybe write a front end for access or transfer it to mysql and write a front end for that. Anything is going to take a lot of work at this point. If I didn't have so much data (over 8 thousand records = about 11,000 cards logged) I might have done it all on zistle but I don't like how they designed it.

[flemingc04]

Here is a screen shot of my Excel file:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c96/aoliver417/SCF%20Stuff/HockeyCardSpreadsheet.jpg

I use it to track any RC, parallel, insert, vintage and valuable base cards.

[lumm0x]

Excel, although not to that degree of detail, as well as photobucket. Used to use the Beckett database but found it cumbersome and incomplete.