I finally bought a proper short box for my favorite run and it changed my whole system

For years I kept my comics in old cardboard boxes from the comic shop. They were free, but they sagged and the lids never fit right. Last month I decided to spend about $25 on a single plastic short box from BCW, just for my complete 'Daredevil: Born Again' run. Putting those books in there, seeing them stand up straight with a clear lid, it hit me. I was treating these stories I love like old magazines, not the art they are. That one box made my messy closet stack look sad. Now I want to replace them all, but that's a lot of boxes. Has anyone else done this switch slowly, a few boxes at a time? How do you decide which runs get the good boxes first?

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hollydixon2mo ago

Ugh, I feel this in my soul. My old cardboard boxes are basically a sad, saggy monument to my past bad choices. I started with my absolute favorite story too, because looking at that one nice box just makes the rest of the pile look like a garage sale. It's a pricey rabbit hole to fall down, for sure.

jessew831mo ago

Hmm, I gotta respectfully disagree a bit. For me, upgrading only the stuff you actually read makes sense on paper but in practice it just drives me crazy. The mismatched boxes everywhere look even worse than the sad cardboard pile to me. Those old cardboard boxes might be saggy but at least they're all the same kind of saggy. My whole collection gets the same treatment or none of it does, otherwise my brain can't handle the visual noise. It's like having one nice piece of furniture in a room full of broken stuff, still looks like a mess. I'd rather wait and do it all at once than get that mixed bag look going.

brooked402mo ago

That BCW short box is a game changer, but careful with the clear lids long term. They can get brittle and crack if you stack them heavy. I learned that the hard way. I started the same way, upgrading my most loved runs first. For me, it was the books I actually pull out to read that got the good boxes. The stuff that just sits in storage can wait in the old cardboard. It makes the upgrade feel worth it every time you open the closet.