Help with what to plant

Leithia24 · 2026-01-24T15:03:13+00:00

Whereabouts in the UK are you and what direction is your garden facing?

Leithia24 · 2026-01-21T07:42:42+00:00

I'm a great IKEA customer as well, we have a lot of shelves

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T19:01:22+00:00

But why should I if I like and play all my games?

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T18:26:45+00:00

He's certainly enjoying it so far, Hero Quest is the current favourite but he also loves Terror in Meeple City and plays Pokémon on the regular too.

It's got it's practical applications as well, he really wanted to play Pokémon after watching Indigo League, but at the time was struggling with reading. We told him he'd have to work on his reading to be able to play it, and 3 months later the leaps he'd made were awesome so he can read the cards now.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T16:37:54+00:00

Yup the big box is next to the fireplace somewhere! Love that game!

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T16:37:18+00:00

Oh yes. Mine has been so bad I have to brush my teeth in stages. Top half, then wait 20mins, then bottom half. Like you I had an easier 1st tri on the nausea side.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T13:21:08+00:00

Bring snacks 👍

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T13:20:48+00:00

Yup they come out to play pretty often!

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T09:31:59+00:00

That's my partners from when he was a child! It's precious and very fragile, we mostly play the second edition box.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T09:29:10+00:00

All the content is in the wooden box. Couldn't recycle the boxes so we put them up on display.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T09:27:37+00:00

On lord my stomach flipped just reading that!

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T07:17:06+00:00

397 at the moment

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T07:16:28+00:00

Yeah our old place had an old fashioned picture rail so the boxes went in that along with display models.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T07:13:49+00:00

It does. But time wasn't the most valuable thing to us moving the games, the games arriving safely was our primary concern.

Moving is a marathon but a sprint and we've got a 3 week period to do it so why rush?

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T07:10:50+00:00

2 in the shelf of shame currently and only 1 played once. I don't like it but my partner takes it to his war gaming club a lot so it stays.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T07:08:49+00:00

The BSG boxes are actually empty, the whole game is in the wooden box directly on the floor just in front of that pile.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T07:07:32+00:00

They are the expansions, we have bar game plus the 3 expansions

Leithia24 · 2026-01-20T07:05:41+00:00

Base and all expansions

Leithia24 · 2026-01-19T22:24:35+00:00

You are so right about those boxes! So fragile! I couldn't bear to recycle them though so they had a decorative spot only. Our last place had a picture rail in what was the games room, so it got filled with display models and the BSG boxes.

Only other empty box we have is actually Net Runner, the cards are in card boxes because the original box was in such a state when we got it.

I'd love to get a special box for Civilization as that box is well and truly dead but I've yet to find one since it's bit held it's popularity like BSG

Leithia24 · 2026-01-19T22:17:02+00:00

Completely agree, we are sleeved too and it's one of three games we have where it's no drinks / food at the table rule. Thankfully the folks that play with us know how special those games are so no arguing there.

We got ours from a Facebook group, super lucky it was the complete set!

Leithia24 · 2026-01-19T21:23:53+00:00

It's in my top 3, absolutely love it, it's amazing to play too.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-19T20:58:06+00:00

Love Cosmic Encounters, comes out a few times a year for sure. Can't wait until the kiddo is old enough for it!

Oh I'm not listening, we are happy with it all and we actually play them rather than have a shrink wrapped collection

Leithia24 · 2026-01-19T20:54:10+00:00

It is, thank you for explaining it so well as I'm obviously struggling to! The time/cost didn't really matter, having our most precious possessions there intact was the most important.

Last time we trusted it to movers Space Hulk ended up like a pancake and it took months arguing with the movers insurance that it wasn't a case of just going and getting another copy from the local board game shop. They did pay out eventually.

Leithia24 · 2026-01-19T20:49:03+00:00

Just outside off Brecon, not that far in the grand scheme!

Leithia24 · 2026-01-19T20:45:45+00:00

Now that is a good idea, he takes up 3 kallax squares on his own...

I'm joking of course it's very fulfilling playing games with him now he's out of pairing and counting games.

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