Like a lot of you I've organized and reorganized my collection a few different times over the years as it's expanded and I've gone into new niches.  Currently my collection is kinda stuck in the 2014 version of this when I put all my effort into a museum display at the SR-5 Dixie Fellowship.  This system of organization centers around Boxware frames.  You can see a bit of this in an old video I posted on Youtube.

 

I want to keep using that system for topical frames where the goal is just to have a smattering of stuff to show off.  For example have a couple of frames for each Jamboree where the frames include all the neckerchiefs, patches and some cool paperwork.  Same for NOACs and other national events.  My idea there is not collect EVERYTHING from that topic but a respectable accumulation.  A great example of that is Philmont.  I don't need ever durn PTC patch but one frame with some PTC stuff checks the box.

 

The collection that I'm really day dreaming about this morning is one that I want VERY organized and labeled.  That's my OA name/number flap collection.  I've always been a collector that likes to label things. But for my OA flap collection I want to have all the council merger history, totem, charter year - just all the critical data on one label next to the flap.  The perfect system for that is to use the Best Hobby Pages 3-pocket envelope which gives that ample space for a large data label.

 

My odd way about organizing that collection is I want to do it by state or possibly old 12 Regions.  To me organizing by lodge number doesn't tell a story of all the mergers etc.  But instead if you can put them by state and show the predecessor lodges that merged right next to the one that was born that's better.

 

• OA Lodge #194 Chequa S-3b Flap
• OA Misc. 2009 NOAC National Committee
• South Florida Council 2011 Eagle Sponsor
• OA Lodge #265 O-Shot-Caw 2011-2012 L.E.C
• OA Lodge #230 Pellissippi 2014 Hillbilly Holiday
• OA Lodge #135 Achunanchi S-36 Flap Flying Owl
• OA Lodge #353 Immokalee Chehaw Council S23 Flap