Should I Sleeve My Board Games? - Board Games and Coffee #13

Grab your favorite beverage and join us for another round of Board Games and Coffee! Conesy and Suzanne discuss their approach to sleeving board games. Should you sleeve them? When should you sleeve them? While there is no right or wrong approach here, we share our approach to this age old Board Gamer question.
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[@briangiese2628]

I only sleeve cards for games when I need to shuffle/draw cards a lot. Over a decade ago started to sleeve all board game for a couple years, but realized it was not needed and an extra cost that wasn't needed. I stopped and removed almost all the sleeves maybe 4 years after I started. It takes more space and costs money. IN the last 15 years of playing a ton of board game, someone spilled 1 drink near a card once. It helps if you game with people that understand basic common sense were they put their drinks to help reduce these type of possible moments.
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[@wiscodice_main]

Sleeving all of your games, especially with a big game collection can become expensive in a hurry! A little etiquette and understanding at the table can go a long ways!

[@rydiafan1]

My likelihood of sleeving is a balance of shuffle frequency and game value. Even though Love Letter is constantly shuffled I won't sleeve it, because I can get a new copy for $10 whenever I want. Meanwhile I have sleeved my copy of Age of Renaissance even though you only shuffle the deck two or three times a game, because it's an out of print game from the 90s.
Edit: Although if I played Love Letter every day I would sleeve it. So I guess frequency of play also enters into it.

[@wiscodice_main]

We didn't mention, or think about, buying a new copy of a game we own. Very good point!