Thank you for all your suggestions on ways of storing Personal Size inserts.
I came up with this cheap and simple solution for storing past years of my Personal size diary inserts. The earliest being 1987.
I've used some card stock which is about 160 gsm. But you can use what ever you can find. Mine came in A4 size.
Using a trimmer I cut it down to 245mm x 190mm, I folded it so that the 'covers' both front and back were 110mm in width. This gives enough clearance if you have any tabs in your stack of inserts.
The problem then was how to punch the holes. I did it in two goes. Fold the front right over and punch, then do the same on the back.
As you will see you do end up with holes in the spine but that shouldn't be an issue with card stock for the folder.
I then passed the treasury tags through the holes in the front and back cover.
You can make the spine thinner if you wish. Mine is about 25mm, but it will depend on how many inserts you want to store in each folder and the length of your treasury tags, they do come in a variety of lengths and colours. I found 4 tags was enough to hold my inserts securely.
Now to just sort through my past inserts and decide which ones to keep and store them in a more organised way.
The 1984 catalogue has a photo that includes what was called the Manilla Pin Binder. It’s hard to interpret what’s in that image, but the design would be useful inspiration for some possible design improvements to your DIY storage binder, avoiding the holes in the spine and the exposed ends of the treasury tags. I think I have one being used as storage so I’ll send a better photo.
ReplyDeleteThat looks a bit like the more recent plastic storage binders, though the 'flexible' bit doesn't sound like the post and press-stud mechanism they use.
DeleteOld skool office storage binders might provide an example; folded and stapled flaps that could be punched, or use the elastic and 'giant needle' fixture.
I think the orange coloured one in that image (top row 2nd from left) is a Pressboard Filing Binder, which had metal posts which screw together.
DeleteThe other one I was referring to is in the middle row 2nd from right, but not very obviously a binder!
Aha. I think you're right, which explains why I thought it looked similar.
DeleteMy earlier reply had an addendum, but the formatting must have deleted it as seeming to be an html tag...
We used to use Niceday JOCA files for holding A4 documents at work. Niceday being a very major office product supplier, so hardly esoteric. Simple folded card, creating internal flaps that held an elastic & wire page fastening. The enshitification of Google means that it is very hard to find a reference. This is the only one that provides a picture, though it is pretty poor:
https://www.thefilefactory.co.uk/products/hr-and-personnel-files-and-folders#joca
The AI hit tells me that 'Joca file A4' appears to be a misspelled search string... Yeah; mine, and no, it's not misspelled...
I’ve just unearthed my old Manilla Pin Binder. It’s coloured red, and I now think the one I was looking at in the picture is actually the blotting paper!
DeleteFor personal size insert storage,
ReplyDelete1. Get an old shoe box
2. Turn inserts on their long side and lay across shoe box on their long side.
Sorted.
Many thanks to Neil at Flatability for this solution.
For added flash Ness cut some dividers from standard card of your choosing to separate different varieties of inserts (only necessary if you have a large stock, as some of us do 🙂)
To stop inserts.sliding forwards in the box, place something heavy in front of them.