I tend to acquire a lot of cards that are used infrequently but are still worth keeping around for those few times they might be useful. For example, old credit cards, library cards for cities I no longer live in, frequent flyer cards, store loyalty cards, etc. It doesn’t make sense to try to cram all these cards in my wallet and carry them everywhere. I prefer a slimmer wallet both for comfort and aesthetic reasons. Additionally, having cards in my wallet that I never use makes it harder to find the one’s that I use frequently. Finally, my wallet space is finite so I couldn’t cram all my cards in it even if I wanted to. I initially resorted to storing cards in drawers. However, cards were difficult to locate when I needed them. Then I thought of a simple but elegant solution: a credit card storage album.<\/p>\n
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You can make a credit card album for under $10 using only 2 items that can be easily purchased on-line: sports card sheets<\/a> and a 3 ring binder. Simple steps are given below:<\/p>\n Each sports card sheet stores 9 cards. (18 cards if you don’t need to see both sides.) So 20 sheets will be more than enough for most people. Note: Make sure you get sports card sheets not business card sheets. Business card sheets hold 10 business cards but won’t work for credit cards which are larger than credit cards.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why even keep the cards around?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some might object to keeping rarely used cards around at all. To this I have two responses. Firstly, there are some cards that are unambiguously necessary to keep but are very rarely used \u2013 most notably a social security card. Secondly, the amount of space that this card album requires is minimal \u2013 no more than a medium sized book. In all but the smallest sparsest dwellings, this is insignificant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tend to acquire a lot of cards that are used infrequently but are still worth keeping around for those few times they might be useful. For example, old credit cards, library cards for cities I no longer live in, … Continue reading \n