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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1907046, member: 31533&quot;]Ok. Time to answer.</p><p>For your bills:</p><p>This is somewhat of a two prong approach. The first is to envelope and protect the stacks and the second is to then store the protected stacks in a container that is controllable as to air flow and to be able to handle storage easily.</p><p>So I looked to document protection (books, for example) and have come up with this strategy:</p><p>1. You create your own individual wrapper for each object (in this case a &#039;stack&#039;) out of either archival cardboard or other material or with mylar of a thickness that would be suitable for this. You have to measure the height, width, and depth of the individual stack, and put in a small allowance as extra, possibly something on the order of 1/32&quot; so that the wrap does not touch the edges so much that stress allows it to encroach on the edges. Pretty much called a four flap enclosure. Here&#039;s two&nbsp; examples of this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]326592[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; and [ATTACH=full]326591[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>2.) Next, you will want to put the wrapped stack in it&#039;s own individual container, again you can make your own and make it out of archival material, probably cardboard, or use a size that you get already made. Much will depend on where you will then store these boxes. If they are too large, it doesn&#039;t allow you to really put them in another container, which I think is important for really long term storage, and to prevent bugs or other (dust, humidity, etc.) problems. The purpose of this is to &#039;cradle&#039; the wrapped stack in a shell so that any accidental mishandling of it won&#039;t lead to damage that is unintentional. Here&#039;s an example of an archival box to use:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]326599[/ATTACH]</p><p>Note: in both steps 1 and 2 you do not want to have &#039;air-tight&#039; wraps. Part of a good storage system will allow a certain amount of air-flow.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) This step is really important, because your archival box will be larger than your stacks and you do not want the stacks shifting around. So you make your own dividers for the box out of a hard acrylic or other material that will not introduce fumes or other byproducts that could harm your stacks:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]326601[/ATTACH]</p><p>Note: you will have more parts to each than this shows. because you want to use the &#039;center&#039; portion to store your wrapped products. And it is possible, depending on&nbsp; your storage box, to have more than one stack in it, but however you do it, you want to have the stacks remain &#039;flat&#039; rather than on an edge. And depending on the archival box you use, you may be able to &#039;stack&#039; the stacks in it, with a hard acrylic piece between each stack.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last part is this one: to get a suitable container to hold your boxes, which will prevent air flow you don&#039;t want and to retain proper humidity controls and prevent bugs. I like the dog food storage containers like these (the have round openings so the other box you use will have to be able to be put into these easily). I like it because it still allows a certain amount of &#039;controled air/humidity and you can also place dessicants in it to help as well. You can open these occasionally to introduce &#039;fresh air&#039; in when you have a good humidity as well. I think this should prevent any foxing or rust issues in notes, and for what I would imagine might be a quite humid environment (India) would be sufficient for long term storage.</p><p>Here are two examples of what I use for dog food and I have never in 7 years had any issues with spoilage or moisture (though I am not in a particularly &#039;humid&#039; place) or with any bugs getting in (and I do live in &#039;ant heaven&#039;, but can usually keep them the ants outdoors. When the ants have invaded the house, they have always stayed away from these containers, so I have to assume the ants don&#039;t know the food is there. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]326615[/ATTACH]&nbsp; and [ATTACH=full]326616[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, this approach, though it takes basically four steps, does allow for proper document storage as well as controlled environment and I think is a good sound one for you. You might have to use other items, if these are not all available to you, but the basics are here. It presumes upon thinking about your bills as bound documents instead of bills that simply get inserted into a mylar sleeve, and it allows you to also put a label on each wrap so that you know what is inside it without opening it each and every time. Good control method.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you like this suggestion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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