Plastic Album Storage

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Do you have an IKEA near you? They have nice plastic storage boxes that are not expensive--if you don't have one near you, I can go to mine and get what you need and ship it to you.

I really don't think it's a good idea to put completed albums into an airtight plastic box... it sounds like a recipe for growing mould, must spots, and getting them fusty to me. My mother sent me some papers that I'd left behind when I moved, and they were sealed in ziplock baggies in a plastic shoebox - and by the time I got them (about 18 months after I last used them) that perfectly good paper was so incredibly fusty that I couldn't use it and had to throw most of it out! They need air to breathe...

I know you just had a terrible experience with water, but it would be worse to lose your albums to mildew! The best security is to scan the finished pages and save high-res electronic versions of them on DVDs in a safe place - that way if anything bad happens you can print them out and at least have a copy of them!

Actually the storage solution suggested for hurricane areas is to put your albums into space bags and suck all the air out and then pur them in a plastic watertight box. The plastic box is only there to make sure that if there actually is a water problem, the other articles that might float don't piere the space bag. Because you vacumm all the air out of the bag, their is no air for mildew to grow.

you couldn't possibly get out all the air, and the plastic of ziplocs could still allow some seepage.