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I quit buying board games cold turkey 2 years ago and my shelf finally makes sense
Two years back I had 140 games stacked in a closet in my apartment and I couldn't name half of them without opening the box. I used to buy anything with a good BGG rating at a convention, haul it home, punch the cardboard, then never get it to the table because my crew only shows up maybe once a month. The turn came when I counted 60 games still in shrink wrap and realized I'd dropped around $1,800 on cardboard I was basically using as shelf decor. Now I borrow first, always. I hit the local library game night or a friend's copy, play it twice, and if it still sings to me after that, I buy it used. My shelf sits at 22 games and every single one hits the table at least 3 times a year. The weird part is my group has more fun now because nobody spends the first 40 minutes reading a rulebook we never touch again. So what's your rule for keeping a game, one play and out, or does it have to survive a whole month before it earns shelf space?
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the_troy14d ago
I did something close to this after my own closet got out of hand, except my number was 90 games and my rule became the two play rule. If a game doesn't get played twice in the first year, it goes up for trade or sale, no sadness allowed. For me the trick was tracking plays in a little notebook, because I lied to myself all the time about how often stuff actually hit the table. Once I could see the truth in writing, about 70 games walked out the door and I never missed a single one. My group likes it more too since we spend game night playing instead of me pitching boxes nobody wants to learn.
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