"Sacrificed My Game Room" Topic

Well, back in December 2007, I was so proud of my game room that I posted this thread on the subject:

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However, during these last two years a few things have happened:

1) My two gaming buddies have been unable to game. My best friend was transferred to India and my nephew has been extremely busy with school and work;
2) Work has kept me from being home. For two years I've been on the road about 9 or 10 months out of the year; and
3) My wife now has her office at home. She tried to make it work using a tiny corner of the dining room, but it simply was not fair to her, when I had an entire room that had not been used in two years.

So, this is what it looks like now . . .

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This week was an exercise in wizardry, as I used up just about every plastic bin and box to store about a million things. Believe it or not, almost all my stuff is in the closet of that room (I'll take a picture of it when I can). The rest (terrain tools and materials) are in the garage.

Anyway, please join me in a moment of silence, for my short-lived dream of having a game room.

Dan
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Nooooooooo…oooooooo! :( hats offf for a minutes silence everyone

Sorry for your loss but at least her office looks nice :)

Buy a bigger house! Your dream must LIVE!!!!!

Your a good Man CC. And yes. It was a lovely room. Be happy for the time you and the room had together.

It aint right it just aint right.You could get a divorce.

Good luck John

I feel your pain. Have a beer.

I congratulate you in making the right choice. A sacrifice to be sure; but I;m sure your wife feels you have "stepped up to the plate" and made the right decision.

Perhaps the garage can be made to meet your needs on a temporary basis, weather permitting?

Oggie

You mentioned a dining room. Get yourself a nice padded table cover and use terrain boards on the protected dining room table for those now infrequent games. It's what I used to do when I lived in an apartment.

My condolences are more for you having so few people to game with locally, especially given the energy and enthusiasm you exhibit in your gaming interests.

Take it in stride CC, and add "…for now" to the end of that.

Everything comes back around.

10 gun salute.

Steve
cavalcadewargames.com
nycjadie.wordpress.com

I hear there's a corner of the dining room going spare….in 2 years you could have the WHOLE dining room, then expnd through the kitchen…naval games in the bathroom….

Bummer, CC. I'm sure you'll get it back one day.

Reminds me of a commercial for some sicom about married couples.

Recently Married Guy: "A man's mome is HIS!"

Guy Married for a Few Years: "A man's home is his castle."

Guy Who's Ben Married for a Long Time: "A man's home….is the garage."

I've been married for 13 years and my wife is encroaching on my basement refuge.

a moment o silence observed.

I'm fairly sure I'll never have a dedicated Room until
Both Kids are off to College;
I currently have stuff spread through the entire House: most aggravating!!!
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I have to kick the kids out of the loft 'play room'
if I want to set up a week-end table:
that's where the Wii and Kid TV-VCR-DVD are set up.

Someday….<sigh>

Your wife is a lucky gal,I share your pain but reality will have its' way wi' us.

Dan,

Sorry to hear about your loss. As I was looking at the pictures though I had to ask how you did the grassy areas on your boards. Were these the rolled railroad grass sheets glued down or what? Fantastic terrain and minis! I hope that you will have more time and folks to game with soon. Cheers.

John

John, I cut and glued down sections of GW's Battlemat:

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Guys, thanks so much for your sympathy during this transition.

Dan

My game room is in a useless part of the house. It's in my cellar, right by the washer and dryer.
I am also divorced, so that helps.

I mourn your loss.

Tis a shame….really. However if you don't use it, sometimes you lose it.
Nice office.

My wife has always had stuff and I have had junk.

Now that a moment has been observed silently, a few reflections to add.

I had a game room when I lived alone.

Right now I have storage at home and I game at my office a few times in the year.

I have already discussed with the wife that when we buy a house, I get the basement for a game room/office/library/den or also known as "mancave"

known to the wife as where I keep my "toys"

Dan, You did a good thing for your lovely bride. fear not, opportunities will come for you to expand your gaming. Maintain your passion in planning projects as you have and you will have plenty of projects when space becomes available.

Cheers!

Albert

I simply put a door lock on my cave, shut it and growled at every mention of 'it would be nice for guests….' she came up with. She eventually accepted the other three floors as hers and left my stinky cave alone.

You still done the right thing!

You made the right choice, and as mentioned, when your infrequent games happen, you can use the dining room or garage. When the games get more frequent, you can discuss what needs to change. Maybe it's time to finish the garage!

Sorry to hear that. Makes me value mine all that much more.

The cool thing is that things change. Eventually, the opportunity will return for you. You have good karma!

Take care Dan.

John

Never give up.

Never surrender.

Play where you must.

Play where you can.

But play on.

Jim

And if your wife puts up with you being gone that much, she's a keeper.

One day my wife came down to the basement to look for more expansion space for her growing shoe collection and to complain that there was too much 'scary stuff' down there and she felt uncomfortable coming down.

I explained to her my stuff is like the gargoyles, they're supposed to scare off the the evil spirits and things that don't belong there.

Major bummer, but if its any solace, you made the right decision.

That's depressing…

Dude, you did the right thing, and you have earned beaucoup brownie points for future situations in which discretion may not have been the better part of valor.

"Sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one." You and Spock, real heroes. Now, by a bigger house with a mancave. You are making lots of overtime pay, right?

Duuuuuuuuude – she sooooooooooooo planned that! Women (especially wives) work like that!

PS: You're a good husband….

Give and take. Relationships and life are like that. They ebb. They flow. Five years from now, you may find yourself with more gaming time and the pendulum will swing the other way.

Jim

It's all good CC.. your time will come ..again..

Apparently we are buying some land and building in the next 2-3 years, so I'll use my current gaming room warandpaint.blogspot.com however now I've done it once I'll do it all again.. only bigger and better etc… and I'm sure you will too mate.

If not you can come to my house any time mate = )

TW