I would like to know more about fanzine selling/trading groups; I'm going to need that outlet at some point cosmically soon.
Do you keep these types of items, and if so, how do you organize them?
Some. I had a metric ton of BatB stuff that I went through, and I tossed a lot... and eventually regretted some of that. So I'm no touchstone on what you should or shouldn't keep.
How I organized it: Anything flat or flattish went into a notebook. I got page protectors and slid in photos, articles I couldn't bear to toss, puzzles, cross-stitch patterns, small costume pieces (the logo from a jacket, for example), even small works of art that I took out of the frame (and sometimes the mat as well.) The notebook was treated as and put in the same place as the fanzines for the fandom. That way I had it, it wasn't in the way, it was organized.
Larger things are harder. At the moment, some of my fandoms are in bins - fanzines, notebooks, and the larger items. It's not optimal, but they're *there* if I want them. Thing is, they only go into the bin while I see if I still care enough to keep them at all...
And I'm impressed with your sparsity of canon. Right now my number is four - Klinger, collected that got me into fandom, BBBC reprints, and an extremely fancy collected set that one of the Watson's Tin Box people gave away one night. That's not counting the two versions on my phone, either.
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Date: 2012-12-30 12:50 am (UTC)Do you keep these types of items, and if so, how do you organize them?
Some. I had a metric ton of BatB stuff that I went through, and I tossed a lot... and eventually regretted some of that. So I'm no touchstone on what you should or shouldn't keep.
How I organized it: Anything flat or flattish went into a notebook. I got page protectors and slid in photos, articles I couldn't bear to toss, puzzles, cross-stitch patterns, small costume pieces (the logo from a jacket, for example), even small works of art that I took out of the frame (and sometimes the mat as well.) The notebook was treated as and put in the same place as the fanzines for the fandom. That way I had it, it wasn't in the way, it was organized.
Larger things are harder. At the moment, some of my fandoms are in bins - fanzines, notebooks, and the larger items. It's not optimal, but they're *there* if I want them. Thing is, they only go into the bin while I see if I still care enough to keep them at all...
And I'm impressed with your sparsity of canon. Right now my number is four - Klinger, collected that got me into fandom, BBBC reprints, and an extremely fancy collected set that one of the Watson's Tin Box people gave away one night. That's not counting the two versions on my phone, either.