Board Game Organizing: Part One

After going to a Meetup of board game aficionados, B and I realized two things. One, we do not have too many games. And two, if we are going to go to board game parties, or have them at our place, we need to organize our games some more. So that's what I did Sunday afternoon.

Of course, I forgot before pictures. Here are the 5-minutes-in pics.

 This is the cabinet that B wanted to hold all his MTG cards. We are still in the process of organizing them (which will take forever). If you look on the second shelf, you can see that the binders don't fit very well. The cards are also fairly valuable, which would be bad if the basement ever flooded.

These are the binders I pulled out of the cabinet.

 

These are our board games.


Last step first- I went through every game and bagged up all the small pieces.

No risk of these little guys spilling all over the floor...wow, that wound up sounding like a pun. It wasn't meant to be a pun.

A little tip if you have little-used buzzers. Keep the batteries inside the box, but outside the buzzer. No acid-leaking batteries this way, and no mad dash to find some when you want to play.

I used some cardboard for now, but eventually I'll get some type of wood to set the binders on. It still needs some work, but at least the binders fit perfectly.

B took the doors off the cabinet, and we tucked it in the corner. Stacking some of the games sideways lets me fit more games in the space, and it makes getting the games so much easier than tall piles.

The longest games wouldn't go in the cabinet, but they fit perfectly on this little shelf. 

We've been collecting dice, and this is one little jar of them. I found this big timer at a thrift store. The little jar is full of some timers from old games, and three more that I bought from a yard sale. 

Still some work to do. I'm working on a games binder, and of course there are all those cards. But I'm really happy with the progress so far.

-DearLadyDisdain
Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.