Rolling the Dice

The kids have had an extra-long holiday - they’re just back at school today - so last Monday, I came up with a great project to keep us from screaming at each other - tidying up the games shelves.

At our house, we have two five-shelf bookcases in which we store our collection. It was a complete disaster, with pieces missing or stuffed in odd places.

We took it shelf by shelf, going through each game and finding out what was missing, the kids helping out along the way.

We wrote down what was missing from each game on sticky notes, and the kids put together the puzzles to make sure all the pieces were there.

Then we went through what we call the “missing pieces” bag, which is a large ziploc bag with pieces, cards, dice, etc., that we’ve found around the house, and tried to put things back in the right boxes.

It took us two three-hour sessions, but we managed to get the kids’ games and puzzles done.

The benefit is that now they have easy access to all of them, and it’s so much more appealing to actually play a game when you know that all of the pieces are there.

We still have a big mess on the other side of the room in the grown-up games shelves, but I feel confident we’ll soon see improvement there, too.

I encourage anyone reading this to go through their own collection of games - there’s nothing like tidying up to make you remember how fun it is to actually play those games you haven’t touched in a while.

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