Shoutout to the person who told me to stop sleeving every single card

I used to think if you didn't sleeve every card in your collection, you weren't a real board game geek. I spent like $80 on premium sleeves for Dominion back in 2019, and it took me three hours to sleeve everything. Then I realized I only play that game with my cousin twice a year, and the cards are fine. A guy at my local shop in Portland told me to only sleeve games that get heavy rotation or have rare cards. I was skeptical until I played his unsleeved copy of Catan that still looked brand new after 50 plays. Now I only sleeve my top 5 most played games and save the rest of my money for new expansions. Has anyone else stopped being a sleeve fanatic?

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maryadams12d agoMost Upvoted

My brother in law is still out there sleeving his copy of Fluxx like it's a rare Pokemon card. I finally told him to just buy a second copy if he's that worried about it.

lisa_wilson8711d agoMost Upvoted

Actually sleeving Fluxx makes PERFECT sense because the cards get shuffled CONSTANTLY and some of those older printings have different backs that make it obvious what's coming next. A second copy won't help when you've got a 2013 edition mixed with the 2018 reprint.