The Reason for bagging and boxing comics!

[Mark Stanislawski]

I was awakened at 4:30 this morning by the sound of rushing water! It seems the supply line to my toilet broke. I caught it fairly quickly, turned the supply off and then immediately ran downstairs because I knew my comics were stored directly under the toilet (I know, I know, not a good place but it is the only place I have right now!).

The bottoms of some boxes were a little wet, the sides of some others were a little wet BUT all comics are dry and safe due to the fact that I bag and box the books. Otherwise, I would have lost thousands of books and been pretty PO'd for the rest of the day.

Oh, the line is fixed and everything else is good, too.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

WHEW!

[Dagwan]

Huzzah for polypropylene!

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[Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod)]

Wow, close call!

[ClarkKent_DC]

As Edna Mode once said, "Luck favors the prepared." Good on you, dude!

[Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)]

I feel you, Mark. I've had two incidents with water and comics and thanked my lucky stars they were all bagged. I am glad all is well more or less.

[Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)]

Phew!

I had a flooded basement a few years ago, and was just as relieved that the comics were bagged. (At least the ones on the boxes in the bottom, which is where it counted.) Now, I keep them all on pallets. And I keep the pallets on a high ledge.

[Lumbering Jack (M'odd-R8-Tr)]

My comics are tucked into my attic, which has been (mostly) insulated from the elements, including extreme heat that is the bane of all attics.
However, the sheer act of lugging my all 20-plus boxes of comics up two flights of stairs was enough of an effort to make me never want to do it again. When I move, I will seriously consider whether I want to bring them all with me or leave them as a "bonus" for my home's future owner.
I mean of the 4,000-plus comics I own, only 10% of them might be saleable above cover price.
Which all makes me think that maybe I should have just stored them in the basement and hoped for the best.

[Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)]

Lumbering Jack said:

My comics are tucked into my attic, which has been (mostly) insulated from the elements, including extreme heat that is the bane of all attics.
However, the sheer act of lugging my all 20-plus boxes of comics up two flights of stairs was enough of an effort to make me never want to do it again. When I move, I will seriously consider whether I want to bring them all with me or leave them as a "bonus" for my home's future owner.
I mean of the 4,000-plus comics I own, only 10% of them might be saleable above cover price.
Which all makes me think that maybe I should have just stored them in the basement and hoped for the best.

Well hopefully you will be rich when you move again and you can hire someone to move all of those boxes for you.

[Mr. Satanism]

Wow, scary. I had a similar thing happen but on a smaller scale. Probably would've lost a short box but they were bagged and ended up okay.

[Dagwan]

Rob Staeger said:

Phew!

I had a flooded basement a few years ago, and was just as relieved that the comics were bagged. (At least the ones on the boxes in the bottom, which is where it counted.) Now, I keep them all on pallets. And I keep the pallets on a high ledge.

How high is it? [/Johnny Carson's audience]

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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Check out the Secret Headquarters (my store) website! It's a pretty lame website, but I did it myself, so tough noogies

Listen to WOXY.com, it's the future of rock-n-roll!

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