'I'm marrying a monster': Fiancé is baffled by girlfriend's unorthodox moving hack

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Mar 1, 2024 3:00 PM EST

Nothing like popping the top off of a good board game to get the night going. For decades, the board game has been the vehicle for good times in households across the world. The thrill of getting together, choosing your pieces, shuffling cards, and locking into a strategy… this is the core of game night. I've played Monopoly games that have forged friendships, and I've played Cards Against Humanity games that have ended them. Such is the gamble of a night treading the boards, as they say. (They don't say that, but whatever.) And holding together all those good times is the humble cardboard box. It neatly keeps the tokens of merriment nicely organized, separated, and ready for fun. 

So it really is baffling to hear what a Reddit poster's fiancé did to these board games-- and in the name of efficiency! This is one of those all-timer Reddit threads. It's just what the internet is for. 

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  • 01
    r/mildlyinfuriating u/TyroftheSwift • 10h Im marrying a monster
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  • 02
    My fiance and I have decided to move later this year, in preparation of that we been going through our stuff and condensing/ getting rid of this and that to cut down on the amount moved. Tonight I find her sitting in the hallway fiddling with our boardgame collection in the closet. She was removing each game from their respective box, placing the contents in a zip lock bag and then depositing all of this into an extra backpack... When asked why she would do such a thing, "there's lots of extra s
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  • 03
    While technically her logic is sound, it just feels wrong. Monopoly belongs in the monopoly box, Scooby Doo Clue belongs in the Scooby Doo Clue box.
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  • 04
    It's pure chaos and Im now worried I have become engaged with an unrealized serial killer.
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  • 05
    All jokes aside, I love her. But am I crazy for thinking this is mildly infuriating, or am I just being anal.
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    Witty_Horse3662 - 9h I can see the confused and terrified looks on your friends faces now when you guys host game night and simply pull out a backpack, saying "Everything we need for a night's worth of fun is right in here"
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    Whitechapel726 .7h This is exactly what I'm imagining. Friends come over and OP's wife pulls out a bunch of ziplock bags.
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  • 08
    wat sillvrdollr 7h The chaos of making a game out of random ziplock bags.
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  • 09
    SubarcticFarmer • 10h Keep the box or ditch the games. That'd drive me crazy.
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  • 10
    ChewMilk 8h Yeah that was my question reading the post. Like.. are you also moving the boxes (then this doesn't make sense) or are you just keeping the baggies? What are you gonna do in board game night, pull up the monopoly baggie? That's so odd
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  • 11
    Curious-Difference-2 • 6h If there was a way to stack all the empty boxes inside each other it could make sense, but in my experience they don't fit inside each other like Tupperware
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  • 12
    calvin_goodrich • 10h She's being pragmatic and thinking ... literally ... outside the box. Or she's a serial killer. Sweet dreams ...
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  • 13
    Ok_Character7958 - 10h That's how my daughter's Life game lost all the people pegs and cars.
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  • 14
    nowhereman136 - 10h i have physical discs of over 500 movies on my shelf (technically in storage at the moment). I can save a ton of space by throwing the cases out and putting them in a disc binder. I can save even more space by loading them all to a USB stick. But thats not really the point. I like looking at a shelf of movies. It looks nice and its something im proud of. i can see someones board game collection providing a similar feeling, and theres nothing wrong with that. For me personally
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  • 15
    OldSheepherder4990 - 8h Use spray bottle to discourage bad behavior
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  • 16
    Suspicious-Vanilla12 • 10h Oh, those awful tiktok hacks
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  • 17
    HCheong 10h ● Lump all her lipsticks into one huge chunk to save further space and throw out the plastic handles.
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