How do you catalog your toy collection?

[Fire Marshal Bill]

I keep it pretty simple. I use a word document and everytime I get something new I update it.
Sammy

That's what I do. I mostly started it so my daughter would have a reference when she inherits the collection. I wanted her to know which ones were mine when I was a kid so she at least wouldn't sell those for $1 each at a garage sale one day .

[Gorn Captain]

If I can't display it, I sell it. There's no point in having a "cardboard box" collection to me. But I did catalog it all. Two years ago, part of my collection got damaged, and I had to fight the insurance for almost a year. They don't mind you paying each year, but once you have to prove what it's worth when it's damaged...

[tay666]

That's the way I try to do it too. What's the point of spending money on something you are just going to pack away in a box somewhere. I understand that some folks just don't have the room for displaying a lot of stuff, so maybe they have to out of necessity. But I'm lucky enough to have a decent sized room that I can devote to my collection, so if for some reason I have something just sitting in a box, I might as well sell it.

Saying that, I probably should make a proper documentation of everything I got, for insurance purposes.

Well, I can understand boxing up some stuff and storing it way.
For me, it is because I don't have the space to display it 'yet'.
But once my daughter finishes college and moves out completely, then I will have the display space for it (one I build the shelves and such)
So, for now, I box some stuff up, for future display.

But I do have many different lists on my computer so I know exactly what I have, and what I still need to find.