to start us off, here are some of my equipment boxes:
--- here's my MH1 box! ---

the top 3 rows contain most of my weapons, sorted by weapon type and strength from the top-left to the bottom-right. armor sets are sorted based on when i got them chronologically, from right to left. on the left side there are a few extra weapons that i don't use, but i like to keep around (crystal hammer + bone broadaxe since they were my lowrank village progression buddies, lacerator blade for MHG opening CG rathalos armor hunter cosplay)
--- here's da MHG box WOW so many pages now ---



you might be able to tell how the first page was built off my MH1 box... i was able to reorganize the weapons section quite a bit, having over double the amount of space to work with above the armor section -- having a full row for each weapon class worked out pretty nicely i think. page 1 ended up storing most of my low + high rank equipment
i ignored page 2 for most of my playtime! page 3 has a cooler, blue background so it was my first choice for storing all my g-rank equipment. since i didn't need any extra space to store low / high rank gear, page 2 ended up as a sort of "overflow" for any armor sets that were too weird to take up space on page 3 (plus some greatswords because there are simply SO many greatswords, they're hard to all fit in a line together...)
also for armor sets on page 3: i couldnt tell you if i sorted them from the left or from the right, to be honest ._. i think i might've put some stuff over on the right before i filled it in completely with armor
--- aaaaaaaaaand heres MH2! offline only gear at the moment ---



2 things different from before: armor is DEIFNITIVELY sorted from the left this time around!! and for now i only have 1 row reserved for each weapon class
i will definitely need to reorganize my weapons by the time the servers release and i begin collecting weapons more seriously... but for the time being i think it looks nice like this! page 1 has the main four blademaster weapons, and page 2 has their "counterparts"
feel free to drop any equipment sorting wisdom you have in this thread ^v^