How Do You Keep Track Of Your Collection?

I see everyone has an inventory problem. Back in the days When we had MS DOS- I spent at least a couple years doing inventory and finally had a complete inventory except for a couple boxes of foreign.However. if you ever get burglarized as I have been-(twice) then you will need an inventory for the police-Fortunately for me- the police made an 85% recovery of what had been taken out of one of my safes-(the one that could be carried out) I had a huge Indiana safe in my garage but a sledge hammer would not open it. They thieves had thrown the safe in the Tuoloumne River near where we lived. Some of you may know Insurance adjusters are real picky- you must be able to prove what was taken- in order to get compensated-and this usually never happens. Afer MS-Dos like all of you, I had to start over again. So for a long time now, I have been using my Sony digital-I take one category at a time- Say My Conder tokens and photo them- they are in the white 2x2's and placed in a 2x2 coin box(es)on the photo I name them and place them in a folder on my desk top (Keeping the labeled disk) In my master folder (Dewey's Coins) I have many other folders named with each category, types etc inside this master folder. Ancient, Great Britain,VIctoria Major types etc;, With thousands of a 50 year accumulation, I will never be able to get in complete but you can at least have a pictorial inventory for your most treasured items. From what I have just read on all of you with this same problem, we seem to be a bunch of gluttonous additics. We have a disease which I call COINITIS. However, We need not let it frustrate us too much if we remember this-- The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. habiru001-- call me Dewey

I use a program called "coin manage" it works very well even though my version is a older version, but it tells you the value of the coins,date purchased,what you paid,and so on. I found it was alot easier to keep up with than the paper and pen I started out with. you can download a trial version of it at libertystreet.com

LOL renal, aren't we all.....