Anyone Ever Unslab?

I seldom buy slabbed coins but when I do I break them open. I put all coins in Whitman Classic Albums. I collect coins, not plastic.
And as to what it was like prior to TPGS's. When I was a kid there was no such thing. Of course there was also few Folders, no albums, flips were always around, no TV either and no computers, no camera phones, no FAX machines, No computer printers and gas for a car was about $0.32/gal. Most coin collectors were known as idiots or jerks. Mostly all coins you collected came out of change. Not to many hobby stores delt with coins, mostly postage stamps. There was no one selling coins on a HSN on TV since we didn't have such TV's. No calculators, no watches that you didn't have to wind and no one was a drug addic since no one knew what that was anyway. No coin shows, no gun shows, no knife shows and probably only dog or car shows.
AND you could walk down any street any time of the day or night and never even think of being robbed.
Imagine looking through your change and saying to yourself something like OH, now what is this stupid thing the Mint did to our Mercury dimes now with this old guy on the Dime. As kids we didn't know who he was.

I buy slabbed coins and put them in my albums.Want it or not slab is the king at present.There is too much fraud in the coin market!

that's a self made album.I bought a big empty album from a book store and the pages from Leuchtturm.But I can see Krause site selling these lately.

True, however, now that China and who knows who else is manufacturing faked slabs, just how do you know yours are real? Also, since there are more and more TPGS's popping up every day, so how do you know who those new ones really are? So how does anyone know if the coins inside a slab is real or not since even the slabs are now being made in China.
NO, the olden days, a few years ago, of a slab being the way to know yours is real are now fading away.

''True, however, now that China and who knows who else is manufacturing faked slabs, just how do you know yours are real? Also, since there are more and more TPGS's popping up every day, so how do you know who those new ones really are? So how does anyone know if the coins inside a slab is real or not since even the slabs are now being made in China.
NO, the olden days, a few years ago, of a slab being the way to know yours is real are now fading away.''

You know there is a verification function in major TPG's where you look up your coin by a picture.Fake slab's is much more difficult to make because of the serial number.

I buy coins and put them in my Dansco albums. I have never bought a slabbed coin, but if I did, I would not hesitate to crack it out because my goal is to complete the album.

I still need to purchase the many key dates. They almost necessitate being bought in a slab; not only for authentication, but for selection (that is, I am having a problem finding them raw). The ones I find do not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. It may be paranoia; however, I am hoping to become more confident in authentication myself. I do not want to rely on the TPG to authenticate a key date.

Before slabs.

Some dealers would sell coins as gem, and when you wanted to sell your coins to dealers they all became AU. Slabs make it harder to say an MS coin is AU and vise versa.

I will never argue against the fact that slabbed coins are easier to sell. However, selling coins is not a part of my game plan, so neither is keeping the slab!