I apologize for the photo quality, but the lighting isn't great and I took it with my phone (hey, easy upload). I also apologize for the state of the mess inside, and I thought about straightening it first, but decided to just go with it because I wanted to be real in my plead for help.
This closet has a strange shape - sort of square on one side and octagon on the other (past the ironing board). It does have some lovely wire shelves though, and that makes my job a little easier.
As you can see, it currently houses board games, bed linens and my ironing board. I plan to relocate the bed linens to the rooms they belong to. It only makes sense to have our sheets with the beds they go on.
Then I plan to purchase a tabletop ironing board. I lug out this huge ironing board about 4 times a year for various small projects, so a tabletop model half the size of this one would work for what I need.
But where I need help is with board game organization. We play all of them quite a bit and the boxes are falling apart, pieces sometimes get misplaced, and the games are falling off the shelves. Some games don't have boxes (Uno Attack, Hungry Hungry Hippos) and some have small pieces that just get thrown into the box (although I have used sandwich bags to contain some of them).
So what have you done to organize your board games? Have you seen or heard of any great ideas that other have done? I need all the ideas I can get!
I hope your school year is going great so far and if your kids haven't started yet, enjoy those last few days of no routines, no homework and no demanding mornings!
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We play a lot of board games too and while I don't have a perfect system, this is what works for us.
The games that don't have boxes we use either jumbo plastic bags or plastic shoe boxes. For the ones that are falling apart we put the pieces in sandwich bags and rubber band them to the board. Depending on how long your closet is you can stack them on top or do them side by side. I put a sticker on the board that lists the name so we don't have to take all of them off to find what we are looking for.
Again, not the perfect solution, but it works for us.
We are big believers in packing tape up the boxes that are falling apart. I'm also a bit of a container freak. So any little container, coin purse, what have you can work well for little peices. We do have one tupperware container for all the "decks of cards" games.
Oh we're way past the packing tape stage here. :-)
Thanks for the ideas, ladies! Keep them coming!!
I, too, use packing tape until the tape will no longer hold any more tape. We have a couple of boxes at this stage and I'm looking for clear plastic boxes about the same size and shape as the original boxes to use instead. I can't wait to see your "after" picture -- I know it will be great!
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