Come on now all you experienced members, I have a question which I am sure you can answer and new members are just dying to know. How do you store all your tricks? When we start out in magic we tend to go mad buying all the tricks we can lay our hands on in the hope that we will discover a secret device that will work miracles easily. Of course we soon discover that the secrets of a good magician do not lay in having half a dozen different packs of trick cards in your pocket, or some rather strange plastic artefact which looks suspicious to the layman before we even start. The secret of a good magician is in entertainment. I have seen audiences spellbound with the simplest of tricks that most of us would disregard as being too easy. Well presented even the most basic trick can hold an audience's attention and get an excellent applause if it is presented in an entertaining manner. All this is all very well, but where on earth do you store all those tricks that you buy. The trouble is that they come in all different shapes and sizes. Some in boxes, some in flimsy polythene bags (with all the props stuffed inside), some in fancy presentation boxes and of course some are just manuscripts. So how do our more illustrious members store their tricks? I suppose with my interest in close up magic my problem is fairly simple but I have tried storage boxes from Ikea; storage boxes from W.H. Smiths; workshop toolboxes with little draws and compartments; I have even left them in the Jiffy bags they arrive in but nothing seems to be ideal solution. Heaven knows how all you stage magic guys go on with cabinets, swords, tables, circular saws and the like to store. There must be an ideal solution to this, so come on guys tell us, where do you keep it all. All answers to Keith please for publication. | 
