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Bryan:
Ah, that's right, forgot about that, would end up like George Costanzo's wallet.<g>

https://youtu.be/yoPf98i8A0g
RoGeorge:

--- Quote from: Bryan on October 22, 2016, 09:09:41 am ---I am thinking now just using coin envelopes and storing them in those old school business card holders. The envelopes should fit in the plastic sleeves

--- End quote ---

Card holders are good enough for SMDs.
For TH, I found them cumbersome to extract/put back parts with small terminals, so I put the parts into a small zip lock bag, then the bag was put into card holders. Adding one extra layer, the plastic bag, made them too annoying to fiddle with, so I discontinued them as a TH parts holder.
Robert763:
I have a very old RS component case. It was designed for the job. It's a medium sized plastic case with a foam insert carrying an array of plastic tubes long enough to hold reistors. It even came with a set of labels. Only E12 but I've annotated for E24. Higher precision are in polybags in a Realty Useful Box. No point in keeping every E48 or E96  Unlike the modern books the RS box can hold a usable quanity of resistors in each tube not just 10 or so. Shame they don't sell them any more. I do have a spare.
Wallace Gasiewicz:
I use the plastic sheet protectors for SMD parts. I use a FUSE iron for making custom pockets, WeR Memory keepers, a scrapbook supplier
This is essentially a soldering iron with a roller tip. It welds the plastic sheet protector together. I just bought the tips and put them into an old soldering iron, which is temp controlled. Takes a little practice to get the temp and the speed of rolling correct. Pretty easy.
This is like what Zapta showed, but full size paper sheets, in regular loose leaf binders, of course you could make them any size and you could get a bunch of Franklin Planners cheap from Salvation Army...apparently no one uses these things anymore...

https://www.scrapbook.com/store/brand/we+r+memory+keepers.html?msclkid=d4fa19667f6313496bfa78958d53c6dc&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Search+-+Text+-+Brands+-+We+R+Memory+Keepers&utm_term=we+r+memory+keepers&utm_content=We+R+Memory+Keepers+-+General

You can make different pockets in cheap plastic sheet protectors, Pennies each protector.

I use 4x6 index card boxes for axial lead regular parts. You can tape the parts to a 4x6 card and "file" it or put small plastic envelopes behind cards or use 4x6 mailing envelopes...or all these combinations.
Card boxes are from Salvation Army, Again Cheap.
Boxes labeled Resistors, 1% Resistors, Caps, Inductors ETC....
Bigger parts are in plastic shoe boxes with cardboard filing dividers.

ICs are a problem, I use parts boxes from Harbor Freight, the kind with multiple pull out "drawers" Never seem to have this under control...

Wally
mc172:
For SMD resistors, capacitors and the like I use these: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/compartment-boxes/1016551

You can get them elsewhere, which is good since I refuse to use RS as a result of what they've done to their webshite. Anyway, I like them because the vials are small - you don't need large vials to store several hundred 0805 resistors and the lids come off without any force, so you don't risk jolting and spilling them everywhere. On the other hand, it's in your best interests to make sure you don't drop the tray.

I number the lids of each vial and have a reference insert in the lid.

They do smaller ones too: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/compartment-boxes/1016539
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