Ziploc Treatment

[Saizo 0]

How many ol' school players here placed everything in a ziploc bag, gingerly placed it in the box after removing the bulky cardboard insert? 

Ain't too proud to say, "I did"

Some might find that blasphemus, I say it is organization. All ships and planets have their own little cozy bag.  No mixed up and searching for anything.

[ItsTheDukester 0]

Heresy! Blasphemy! Sacrilege!

(kidding!  )

 

 

 

[The Warp 23]

The day I discovered The Container Store was a great for my Cosmic Encounter materials...  I have small boxes, large boxes, card boxes, token containers, alien boxes, boxes for the boxes.... it's a little much, but what can one do?

[Saizo 0]

LOL. Yeah, it's a bit OCD--but then. . .

[Paul Grogan 0]

I'm with you here.  The first thing I do thesedays is remove the cardboard insert and ziploc bag everything.  When I go to Essen any buy 10-15 new games, the bin in the hotel room is filled with cardboard inserts.

Sacrilidge - maybe.Practical - yes.  

I travel with my games a lot and they tip on their side.  Without things in ziploc bags, I would have have lost so many components.

[Podtrooper 0]

  Guilty!

As is every board/card game I own.  So much so, that it's become a running joke among my friends.  Especially when they have to empty 10 or more bags to play my (2nd Ed) Talisman, etc.

It's a habit I picked up from the olden days of (original) Axis &  Allies, Blitzkrieg and other wargames, not to lose all the little cardboard counters.  One of the more reliable Laws, is that game parts will find thier way out of the box.  

 

[Saizo 0]

Isn't that the truth. I've had wonderful games that I took great pains to keep together, i.e. Magic Realm, and one day I went to play it and pieces....gone!  I did a moratorium for it that day and just put the game back in the bookshelf.

[slagbeast 0]

ziplocked here too.
Even went to the local office supply store and got plastic 5X7 signholders to display the aliens as we play.

[Saizo 0]

Hey, Fido--

Great idea on the card holders.  Might have to do that myself.  Thanks for the tip.

[RobertDG 0]

It's not a sin to be organized, no matter how badly people may tease you for it.  I've done this kind of thing since I  bought my first real board game, and have never regretted doing so.  For my Mayfair CE set, I used clear plastic film canisters for each set of tokens.  Now I use small ziplock bags I found in an office supply store for small tokens, and card holders to keep my decks separated and ready for play.

[Spieler1042266 0]

There are Games where Boxes are pretty good, but FFG Games just have so many tiles that I think it's almost impossible to design

and produce HQ-inserts for a reasonable price.

 

I use zip-locs and plastic boxes since i bought TI3 2d ed