The Hall Closet II

Remember in November when I was so excited about re-organizing our hall closet? It stayed that way almost three full seasons before it became overcrowded again. Leftover party supplies from the kid’s birthdays were tossed in there, Matthew took to shelving his bobble head collection on the bottom shelf, and my books were spilling out.

This is the before:

This is it after:

I was already in a closet organizing frame of mind when I started the project because last week Matthew and I collected all the board games in the house and moved them to what we now call The Game Closet in our garage.

I drew Monopoly game cards for each of us and cut out dice and dominoes from construction paper to decorate the outside of the closet. On the inside we hung up old score sheets, the earliest dating back to 3/30/03.

Photos were taken at night so they came out a little dark

These are some old team names:

Purple Peacocks

Zombie Patriots

One Smart Wookie

Banker & The Candlestick Maker

Bank Robbers

Cat Burglars

The Game Closet has encouraged a spike in board game play around here. Matthew and I played a two day game of Monopoly and about 50,000 rounds of Slamwich during one rain soaked weekend recently. 

It is not unusual for a stuffed friend or two to join in the game play

In quite a few games that we play the number 6 is the best number to roll. Matthew has a chant that he says before he rolls the dice:

“One, two, three, four, five, six – pickup sticks- I want to roll a six.”

It never gets old.  Right Bob?