That's awesome, congratulations again on the award!

Pssst, you're gonna need a bigger shelf.

Glad Sam liked the plaque so much, that pic of him holding/staring at it cracked me up.  Reminds me of one of my nieces, she's in a similar situation/condition, biggest smile I've seen out of her was when I told her all my junk mail was for her and she opened a Luxury Accessories pamphlet I had gotten from HA. It had all kinds of purses and stuff in it, well, she had pretty much the same expression as Sam. Long story short she wouldn't put it down, took it home and her parents were pissed at me because that's all she would talk about/wanted (stuff in the pamphlet). Ooops. 

So what are the inside dimension of those boxes, how tall of a graded note could I fit in one and how sturdy are they? I've been watching those a long time and they look good.

3 hours ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

That's awesome, congratulations again on the award!

Thanks, again.  

3 hours ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

Pssst, you're gonna need a bigger shelf.

Yeah, but not the worst problem to have. I don't know exactly what's gonna happen when the NGC one gets here though. I'm also out of the little plastic stands that I use for them. I guess I need to hit up Michael's and see if they still have those. I had a spare one sitting around that I bought a year ago for... reasons (possibly linked to eternal optimism)... and I was able to just pop the PMG one on that stand. Maybe the solution is just going to be hanging them on the wall in a big (and possibly growing over time) display.

The stand the PMG one is on was supposed to be for my AIChE "Best In-Practice Paper" award but I realized that keeping that plaque (made of soft wood) would leave indents and grooves in that plaque over time so I took that award off the plastic stand and put it on the wall and that stand has been sitting empty. Now it has something to do.

3 hours ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

Glad Sam liked the plaque so much, that pic of him holding/staring at it cracked me up.  Reminds me of one of my nieces, she's in a similar situation/condition, biggest smile I've seen out of her was when I told her all my junk mail was for her and she opened a Luxury Accessories pamphlet I had gotten from HA. It had all kinds of purses and stuff in it, well, she had pretty much the same expression as Sam. Long story short she wouldn't put it down, took it home and her parents were pissed at me because that's all she would talk about/wanted (stuff in the pamphlet). Ooops. 

I think the single most hateful thing Amazon has done to me in recent years is starting to mail out those holiday toy catalogs...  

Ben has not yet figured out the difference between business cards, gift cards, membership cards (like my Top Golf card) and Credit Cards. So he has a wallet full of "credit cards." Uh huh...

3 hours ago, Fenntucky Mike said:

So what are the inside dimension of those boxes, how tall of a graded note could I fit in one and how sturdy are they? I've been watching those a long time and they look good.

The below gives you outside, but I'd put INSIDE at about 212 mm wide and about 125 tall at the edges (the "spine" / lid is curved). It's big enough to hold my world notes in the wider, taller holders.

I would say they're reasonably sturdy for what they seem designed for. They seem like they're meant to sit on a bookshelf and look like a book, not to be stacked really high on top of each other. They're pretty sturdy if gripped at the bottom or the sides but I'd say that trying to hold them at the top / by the lid in the middle is a bad idea. They are just a little "squishy" at this point and I can feel them start to give some if I try to hold them hard enough at that point to hold them when they're full / have the weight of a bunch of notes in them. No complains. I like them. I just would be aware of that one apparent weak point and that they don't seem designed to be held by the "spine" like you would a real book.