>>51878600>i don’t even sleeve my binder cardsI was agreeing with you up until here. This is guaranteed to fuck up your card edges. The best binders all have a high friction backing to them which prevents your cards sliding around once their placed in there. But that backing is only useful if you sleeve your card before hand, since the friction force will be applied to the sleeve and not the leading edge of the card.
Hopefully you don't have anything worth >$5 in there...
>>51878651As for you, if your autism is so severe that you cannot bear the thought of your cards in anything but a toploader, just keep them there. It's better to do that than to lose sleep over it. But know that a good quality binder, sleeving your cards when you put them in, and turning the pages at full tension, will keep your bindered cards in the same condition they were when you put them there.
One way you can look at it is that the majority of psa 8, 9, and 10s that were sent in at the beginning of the pandemic were from bindered cards found after 20 years. And while most of those childhood collections returned as a psa4-5, the damage on those cards was done well before putting them in the binder, instead of being inflicted by the binder.
