Purchase Second Hand Board Games for your GAME NIGHT!

Purchase Second Hand 

Board Games for your GAME NIGHT!

Everyone likes board games! Growing up in the 80s - 90s everyone used to have game nights with family and friends, playing classic games such as Monopoly, Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders, Operation, Clue, Uncle Wiggly, The Game of Life and Old Maid, just to name a few games.

Why not re-visit those good ol' days, by having board game nights with your family and friends. I recently visited the local department store and the price tags of board games now-a-days are outrageous, most are between $25 - $50 each.

I didn't have many board games to have a two to three hour "Board Game Night", so I went to various local thrift stores to see what they had. To my surprise, they had shelves of board games, most lightly used at great prices.

I purchased these board games at various local thrift stores. 

Price in parentheses is the price that I paid. The price on the right is the retail price for a new game.

What's Yours Like? 

($0.45)  $20.00

RISK                                        

($3.99)  $30.00

Clue                                          

($2.99)  $20.00

Trivial Pursuit                           

($3.99)  $40.00

                                  

TOTAL                                  

($11.42)  $110.00

SAVINGS OF $98.58

** NOTE - These games are used and may not be the latest edition, but the game play is still the same. If the box is not taped shut, look inside and see if all the pieces are there. On the games that I have purchased so far, What's Yours Like? was basically brand new without the shrink wrap and the rest of the games were in really good condition, but the boxes have some signs of wear. RISK even had all 350 pieces.

After bringing home a newly acquired game, I take out a few zip lock bags, paper towels, a can of disinfectant spray to clean the game. For the game tokens and dice, I place them in a zip lock bag and spray the disinfectant spray inside, seal and shake the bag a few times to make sure everything is disinfected. I leave the pieces in the bag for about 5 minutes or so, then I empty them out on a paper towel and pat them dry.

For the game board, I spray a paper towel and clean off the board front, back and sides.

Now I just have to find some friends that want to play board games.

HAVE A GREAT GAME NIGHT!

Re-Purpose An Old Picture Frame Into A Cork Board

Re-Purpose An Old Picture Frame Into A Cork Board

If you have any old picture frames laying around or find a good deal on one at a yard sale, you don't have to have a photograph to utilize the frame. I turned this frame into a cork board. 

If your old frame has a print already in the frame, you can easily remove it from the frame with a flat screw driver by bending the flexible flat driving points and flip the image over and use it as a backing to adhere the cork board material to.

If you just have the open frame, flip the frame over and measure the opening of the back of the frame. Take some mat board or cardboard from an old box and cut to size.

Buy a roll of cork (thicker the better) at your local art supply store (A.C. Moore and Michaels usually has a coupon for 40%-50% off one regular priced item every week).  

Cut the cork to the same size as the backing board. 

Use gel super glue or some other form of adhesive to bond the backing to the cork board. ( ** Note - Do not use spray adhesive, the cork will just absorb the adhesive right through to the other side.)

Once you have the both pieces together and have let dry for a little while, place them into the back of the frame. If your frame has the flexible flat driving points, take your screw drive and bend them back down. 

If you don't have the points to fasten the print to the frame, take some brads and a hammer at least two on each side of the ledge of the frame.

DIY Perfect Bound Book Repair!

DIY Perfect Bound Book Repair!

This is my Holy Bible. The back cover and last few pages had separated from the rest of the book. You might have a perfect bound book that has a similar problem. What do you do?

Items needed:

old white t-shirt
gel super glue
ruler
pen or sharpie
scissors
a few paper towels
two decent size books or two book ends

 1.) Take down the measurements of the spine, back cover lip and the height of the book.

 2.) Lay the t-shirt of your work surface. Take your ruler and pen/sharpie, measure and mark the dimensions that you have just taken down. I started measuring above the bottom shirt hem.

3.) Take your scissors and cut out the strip from the t-shirt.

4.) Next, take the two books or book ends and prop the book to be repaired, spine up with the back cover in the open position on your work surface. Take your gel super glue and apply a decent amount of glue to the spine.

5.) Apply the t-shirt strip over the newly glued spine and pat down with the paper towel. Line the strip flush with the right side of the spine. There should be some overhang on the left side of the spine. Bend the back cover back a little and apply some super glue on the underside of the lip. Begin to turn the back cover back onto the spine. Just before the two halves meet, tuck the strip overhang under the lip.

6.) Turn the book over on its side with the spine facing down and wedge it between the two books or book ends. Let the book sit for a few hours to dry.

Good luck and enjoy.