What do YOU do with jigsaws?

[ChirpyGirl]

I have had enough of constantly fixing and refisxing the boxes, they are more tape than box now, and DD insists on taking them in and out, one box has been destroyed and another has so many in that it is about to explode, so how do you sort them that doesn't involve six rolls of tape or plastic bags?!?!?!

My DD is only two so all our jigsaws are very simple, but we store them under the sofa, ina flat and completed state, so then they can come out and be dismantled and then out back together.,...I guess that won't work when they are bigger than twenty five pieces!

DD is 2.4 so they are simple, but cos she loves them MIL has bought her endless ones, she now has about 20 and if they aren't all brought out together she gets so whiney i can't cope!
Tupperware sounds good as then she can see them without needing them out...
I feel a trip to the pound shop is in order!

(I have no room under my sofa, it is taken up by odd socks, playballs, bricks and bits of fluff

ELC have started doing them in tins so I now try to only buy tinned ones. If we're given boxed ones I have to admit if we've lost a piece and the box is completely in tatters I put it in the recycling box

The Tupperware box thing sounds good though,you could stick the pic on the lid and they'd stack nicely. Hmnmmm how satisfying would that be- turning the dc's puzzle chest that is basically a box filled with decaying puzzle boxes and a heap of jumbled pieces into a chest filled with neatly stacked Tupperware boxes. I see a project coming on.

Add into that those annoying card packs with about 6 million cards with pictures on, about 30% of which evaporate the second you open the box, they could be put away as well...!

I use plastic tubs with the picture of the puzzle on the lid. Much easier than the silly cardboard boxes they come in!!
I get the clip lock tubs from Tescos.

ours are stored in those sandwich bags with the zipper tops....no pictures though once the box is unusable. Those tinned jigsaws sound great!

Cheap tupperware from the pound shop does very nicely for us.

If i became president of the world all Jigsaws for all ages would be set on fire!

Life is toooooo short my friends!!!

we have them in resealable sandwich bags.
I we don't have the pictures for some of them but that doesn't matter to DS1

in those plastic wallets with zippers from partners etc.

there are special extra strong ones for the larger and heavier puzzles

I'm not voting for you then PortBlack. Jigsaws are the only way I get five minutes respite from reading to my DS.

Then i am very very jealous that they will partake themselves. Jigsaws and my DSs do not mix and they call me every 10 seconds to 'help'.

Yawn.

I did the plastic box thing too, after the day DD got into the jigsaw drawer(literally - see pic on profile) I used to give each jigsaw a letter & write it on the back of each piece & on the box, so if when I found a stray piece on the floor I could quickly find which puzzle it belonged to.

Ri=usty, that is why I love the Orchard House (I think it's called that) ones, the backs are a different colour for each jigsaw, so even from across the room I can tell her she is trying to put the wrong piece in (again)..

Cliplock boxes here too - I cut out the picture from the box and put that in (You need to score it to fold it to the right size)

My toy box does look lovely

how many puzzles do you all have??!!
I regularly swap and recycle puzzles at the charity shop and with friends who have kids the same age. WE prob have about 6 or so at a time.

I currently have 4 farm jigsaws, 5 fifi (ick) ones, 3 or 4 car ones, one with some weird fairy thing that creeps me out, a couple each of dora, thomas and bob.
I would love to get rid but MIL bought them for her and likes to get them all out when she comes round, so it woudl upset her if I gave them away when she went out specially to buy them (she is disabled).
Serves me right for having a nice MIL!

We had a lot - some of our own & then my sister who has 2 DSs a bit older than mine went abroad & had a big clearout - she had a lot because her SIL passed hers on - I later passed them on to my SIL - some of those jigsaws are now on their 10th child!

Just the other day, I did 2 jigsaws with my DD and by the end, I was so knackered I had to have a nap. Just goes to show how much brain-power jigsaws use up, or perhaps, how little brain-power I normally use in my day-to-day life!

We have about 12. I would love more. Each jigsaw represents to me about 5 minutes of rest and relaxation, and DS will work his way through the lot in a single session. Bliss! (He is 20m BTW)