How Do You Keep Your Collection?

It all depends on the size of your collection. Mine is small enough (for now) to have in 2x2s and a binder. Eventually, as your collection gets bigger, you may want to start type sets and so on. This requires more books/binders.

For some of us, it's already too late......

Lets see, my collection isn't that big, so I could probably just for fun list my whole collection here, heres what I got going on......

Albums

Canadian cents 1920-date (2 books)
Lincoln cents 1941-date (2 books)
Jefferson nickels (2 books)
Roosevelt dimes 1965-2002 (1 book)
Washingtoon quarters 1965-1985 (1 book)

I have one large size Statehood Quarter map-type folder (includes the 2009 quarters)
One large size Presidential dollar folder

Tubes

One tube of pulled-from-circulation bicenntenial quarters
One tube of pulled-from-circulation bicenntenial halves
The one tube dedicated to each of the four westword journey nickles, so thats another four tubes.

Air Tights

A 1922 BU Peace dollar
A Bicenntenial BU Eisenhower dollar
A 2005 one oz. silver proof Austrailian Kookabura
A 2005 proof national parks commerative canadian moose dollar
A 1978 Silver Proof Eisenhower dollar

Binder With 2x2 sheets

The binder is where I'm slowly organizing the rest of my collection. Instead of my Kennedy halves, the 2x2's sheets are all pretty sporadic containing pretty much the rest of my collection. All my older coins, silver coins, proof coins, world coins, variety coins. Pretty much everything that is not listed above I am working on putting in 2x2's then putting them in plastic sheets.

That is except for my Kennedy's. When I bought my first 1000 dollars in halves to roll search I wanted to put a complete circulated Kennedy mint/date set together. But I didn't want to have to put every Kennedy into a 2X2 then into a sheet because that would be like 80 coins. So I just stuck the Kennedy itself straight into the sheet, stuck a little brass brad through the coin pocket to prevent the coin from falling out, then labeled every single coin with the what date and mint is was with black label maker tape. I even kind of mixed it up, using yellow tape to write ".9% silver" for the two '64 issues, and blue tape for ".4% silver" for all the silver-clad issues, and red tape with "NIFC" on it for any issue that was NIFC. It sounds like a lot of work for something that you would think may look dumb but it actually turned out to be a really attractive, easy to maintain and examine set. I'm actually quite proud of it.

Those that aren't in albums or at the bank are in here. Neat and tidy so my wife doesn't kill me.

latman - wow! that's an amazing chest of drawers...did you build that yourself? looks great...are those vertical drawers for binders?

My coin collection is out of control. I now have well over 100 Whitman Classic Albums and primarily all full. I have 8 or 9, getting old and can't remember, of those Whitman Red colored cardboard boxes for 2 rows of 2x2's. Also, pretty much full of duplicates not yet in albums. A few large cardboard boxes of Proofs and another of Uncirculated sets from the Mint. Started getting those in the 50's. Several boxes of foreign coins in 2x2's and have no idea of what they are. I don't collect foreign coins but people keep giving them to me. Then of course there are those 3 ringed binders full of those plastic pages that hold 20 2x2's.
Like I said this collection is just out of control.

I use "everything" but will always be disorganized and messy and incomplete !

Same here, no matter how hard I try.