There have been several posts over the years regarding chip storage solutions. Now that I have a digital camera, I figured I would share mine on this very wintery day.
These storage trays you see in the pictures below have been mentioned before on the chipboard and are worth mentioning again. They are available at Walmart for around $5 and they work great for storing chips.
I use 2.5" x 2.5" mylar flips and can comfortably fit 3 rows of from 75-80 chips in each draw for a total of up to 240 chips per draw and 720 chips per tray. A simple 2" x 10" rigid piece of plastic (barely visible in the 3rd photo) keeps the rows of chips in each draw from merging together. One very convenient feature of this storage solution is that it is trivially easy to add a new chip to my collection and maintain alphabetic order of the chips.
One storage tray:
A picture with the draws open:
I also have a nice chip frame that I use so as not to have ALL my chips hiding in cheap trays. I will choose a different theme (currently my wife's Palm Tree collection) and have them pominently on display in the frame.
Current palm tree chips on display:
Finally, for my traders, I use the common 100 chip racks (identical to those used at nearly all casinos). They fit perfectly in a nice old antique pool ball rack I have.
There are many other very desirable storage solutions out there. Please feel free to share yours as I am sure many, as well as myself, would be interested in seeing how you store your collection.
Jim
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