Puzzles Puzzles Puzzles
By patgalca
@patgalca (18481)
Orangeville, Ontario
January 29, 2019 4:34pm CST
Over the years I have given my husband a puzzle or two or three for Christmas. Once he put them together on a board he pushed them under the living room sofa. It got to the point where we had two piles touching the bottom of our sofa. I told him it was time to take them apart. He had some silly idea of mounting them and hanging them. Uh, where?
I finally suggested to him that he take pictures of the puzzles he completed then take them apart and put them back in the boxes. We found all but one box (which I found yesterday while cleaning out the games cupboards).
So I thought I'd sell them. I used the brilliant idea I had used for the books of arranging them on the steps to display and take a photo. The photo you see above is of all but three puzzles. We have yet to take the one apart which we found the box for yesterday, and, well, why the heck didn't I just put the LIDS on the steps?? One puzzle opened at the bottom and spilled some of its contents. Okay, no problem, I'll pick them up. Unfortunately it happened to another one as well.... before I had a chance to pick the other pieces up.
Did they get mixed up? Well, yes and no. Only a few fell from the second box. The puzzles are very different in colours, and I think one's pieces are actually bigger than the other ones. But do I take my chances in selling these two puzzles?
Anyway, lesson learned. Though if I had just used the lids of the boxes, would I have known which lid went on which box? I am just lucky it was only two puzzles that happened to.
Now I have to figure out a way to sell these things. I may just have to wait until spring garage sale season. Even Facebook isn't cooperating with me. I can't find the last picture of books I posted.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
6 Feb 19
If you were closer, I'd buy a few from you even without the correct lids, but I've not been doing puzzles on a table top recently, I've been working on the online ones instead at least until and if I ever get my kitchen table cleaned up from tax stuff which is ongoing.
Good point about not knowing where the lids might belong if you only used those for your images. If you ever do something like that again, you could write some numbers or letters on both the tops and bottoms of the lids just to get them to their rightful pieces. The two that opened up you could try selling as a set just in case you didn't figure those out corrrectly, but if they are different sizes it shouldn't be very hard.
I've heard of many people gluing their finished puzzles together, but I've never heard of anyone, before this, saving their finished puzzles on boards under furniture before. If you hadn't pulled them out, would he just have left them there forever?
Me, I enjoy reworking one's I've done before, so I put them away after a day or two and do them again a year or so later. Sometimes you can trade puzzles too, but I'm not sure where or how.
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@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
6 Feb 19
Believe it or not, my husband would pull the puzzles out from under the couch and show them to people, to everyone's stunned amazement. That's why I told him to take pictures of them.
Great idea about selling the puzzles as a set. I just found another piece on the floor that looked to match a third puzzle (which has a tight fitting lid). I have to ask my husband what he thinks about which box it goes into.
I may have to buckle down and do some work uploading individual pictures on Amazon. But exercising has been my priority and I don't have much energy after that.
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@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb 19
That's a great idea to display them on the steps like that. Unfortunately we don't have any steps. 
But fortunately we don't have any puzzles to sell either. 
I gave most of ours to the local library.
But fortunately we don't have any puzzles to sell either. I gave most of ours to the local library.