Wining About Boardgames

I promise, the fun stuff is coming. But here's another "set-up" post, about post-its! As I mentioned in my introduction post, I have collected games for the last year. I wasn't able to play all the games I collected as they arrived, so my shelf of unplayed games (sometimes called the "shelf of shame" or "shelf of opportunity") grew. I decided that in 2021 I was going to try and play my unplayed games. I decided to mark them with a bright pink post-it note so they would sit on the shelf and taunt me until I played them. It's working! Yesterday we got two pink post-it games played! I'll make a post about those on a different day. But how exciting that those two post-it notes have been removed and will no longer taunt me!!

"Life is a game board.  Time is your opponent.  If you procrastinate, you will lose the game.  You must make a move to be victorious."   -Napoleon Hill Using the quote of a potential conman from the early 1900's is possibly a shady way to start a blog.  However, the quote kind of fit in the place I'm at right now with board games.  I won't exactly say I'm new to the hobby any more.  I've been purchasing and playing board games since 2018.  I've backed several Kickstarters.  But, the above quote was how I recently started amassing a huge collection of games over the past year-- I felt like I was running out of time.   My name is Kate, and I buy a lot of board games.  Most of which I play- some of which are still in the shrink wrap they came in.  There, got the introduction out of the way. Because of Covid-19, the entire world stood still for a brief amount of time last March.  Everyone will probably remember where...