Board game storage

Where do you store your games?

I keep the ones used regularly by my gaming group in the bottom of my china cabinet in the dining room. We game mostly on my dining room table although I have a couple of other tables I can press into service. They are alphabetically organized behind wood doors. The overflow is on wire shelving in my family room behind a curtain and have overflowed to adjacent shelving beside the fireplace. Mostly shelved by size with a nod to type of game and frequency of use.

We have no space, so they're just on a shelf in the back room. We don't have very many, sadly, for multiple reasons, so it's not such an issue.

We have shelving along the short end of our gaming room, and a cupboard with drawers for the tiny things, cards, CheapAss games etc.

We have no order, though, the games barely fit so they are stacked in haphazardly. With only a couple of hundred games, finding the game we're looking for usually takes less than a minute.

We're planning to buy an IKEA Expedit in the near future, so it will look something like this. It will go in the spare bedroom (i.e., the book/game storage room that has no space for a bed), which is close enough to the living room of our tiny apartment that it will make no difference.

I can't imagine alphabetizing them at this point because we really don't have enough that it would necessary (maybe 100), but I guess we'll see.

I forgot a couple of places. I keep small, often used games and generic components in a drawer in my dining room. In another drawer I have wedding favor bags of different sizes which I use in place of plastic bags for component storage and the all important box bands. In the living room I have a bookshelf of small, lightweight games like Tsuro, Bonanza and Diamont.

I don't have all that many games, particularly not in the dining room, but since I can't actually see them because they are behind wooden doors and I like to be able to lay my hands on a particular one quickly, I alphabetize. The collection changes. I hope to pick up my copy of Terra Mystica soon and another game will need to be moved out to make room for it.

4> Are those your games?

>6 MDGentleReader: Nope, that's just an example of what Expedit looks like with games in it. I will take pictures in a couple of months once we have our own set up, though :)

Ah, just like seeing books on bookshelves, I had questions about individual games, but I'll wait until the games are yours! What you posted looked like a pretty good collection.

I can give you a rough listing of what games will eventually be there, anyway: some fraction of my games (many owned jointly with my brother and sister, so we tend to pass them around between us) and all of my fiance's games.

I'll take a pic of our games and post here some time. Not an animated gif, though.

Mine, pretty up to date. John's, YEARS out of date. He hosts quite regularly and people give him games which he hasn't gotten around to cataloging. Both of us have slowed down considerably in our purchasing of board games. People bring games that they really want to play. In John's case, they will give him games that they don't feel like lugging over to his place all the time.

Hmmm, need to look for the 2nd Burgund expansion.

In the original view, I was going to asked if Colosseum got much play. When I got it, I often needed a five player game. Too many other good games to play, though. I should just get rid of it.

I used to store mine on shelves in the basement, but am now putting them in clear plastic totes/storage bins on shelves in the basement. Easier to grab and pack and go when I take them to play at other places. Can also organize so that games of a particular type or genre are in the same bin together (Star Wars games, horse racing games, Monopoly versions, for example).

I keep mine in large plastic lidded crates. I have over 110 crates holding some 2000 games. They are quite disordered and largely uncatalogued. Sigh...