I picked up this vintage card index meant for filing business cards on July 20th for a fantastic $1.50. I hadn't seen a card index this small before and suspected that it was designed as a sort of Rolodex for storing 2 x 3.5" standard business cards. It makes an excellent storage for those as well as for the several dozen other old affinity cards and library cards I've got. Of course, my problem is that it only fits about half of the business cards I've got.
There are a few places that still make card dividers for this size format, but I opted to make my own from 11 x 17" card stock.
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I saw these while browsing through a thrift store and correctly clocked them as thick tabbed dividers though the person who rang them up for $1.50 thought they were folders because of their heft.
I've been wanting some for use with 8.5 x 11" index cards, but thought that most major stationers had quit manufacturing them decades ago. It turns out you can still get them from Tops via a variety of different office supply outlets, though closer to the range of $15-40 per pack. I'm sure these will work wonders in my Shaw-Walker filing cabinet.
Interestingly, one outlet I saw was pitching them for dividing files within a single a folder, but I'm guessing they weren't aware of how these were used historically. (The entire group of 25 would fill up a standard manilla folder all by itself!) It's sort of a shame that they only count up to 25 instead of 31 so that one could also easily use them as a days-of-the-month tickler file.
Pleasantly surprised by an exciting Grand Prix today. Spa is one of my least favorite tracks on the calendar, and with the new regulations I expected its shortcomings to be amplified. Instead, we got a nice battle for the win and plenty of passes. Super happy for CL16! Lewis’ penalty was B.S. #F1
