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Christopher Ebert
United States
Cape Coral
Florida
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I don't see how it happened. I understand why, but it amazes me how the mind can think one way, but due to one or a few circumstances it suddenly shifts somewhere else, and acts as if it had been there all along.
Hi. My name is Chris. I am a sleever...
...but it wasn't always that way. It is new to me. I never really put sleeves on any cards in my board games. I never minded if my cards looked used or warn a bit cause that showed that they were loved and played. I don't sleeve my clothing after all and it certainly doesn't look like it did the first day I got it. Cept for Magic the Gathering, but I only did that with the decks I was using and only cause I liked the art for the ones I found. It had nothing to do with protecting the cards or anything. And because of that, I came to realize I preferred the feel of the cards themselves instead of them in sleeves.
Here's how it started...
I was getting frustrated with the little card decks in Arkham Horror. They were such a pain in the ass to riffle shuffle. I was thinking about getting one of those automatic card shufflers, but didn't think they would work well for those tiny things and probably would make more of a mess to the point of not being worth it.
Then I got into Thunderstone. And then realized if certain cards don't get used much, they will not show the wear that the others do and be easy to point out say, in the dungeon. ("Oh, that may be a treasure cause it looks pristine, I better kill a monster")
But those two cases didn't do it yet. Nope.
Next, was Merchants & Marauders. Nothing but those little cards like in Arkham Horror. But I loved this game too much to let that get in my way.
I'd like to point something out at this point. I never knew you weren't suppose to riffle shuffle with card sleeves. No one ever taught me otherwise, nor did I see any other way to do it. I wasn't a member of BGG in my MtG days nor did I even think of looking up different ways to shuffle.
So back on track... I read a forum talking about how quickly the Merchants & Marauders cards can get worn out, especially the Cargo Cards. Well, I didn't want that to happen. I was spending a lot of money for board games for my tight budget so I wanted to start protecting them and making them last cause I didn't want to worry about it being out of print if I needed to replace it.
And it started. I bought my first card sleeves for the purpose of protecting cards. I read about this company called Mayday that sold really good quality for a low price, and they were just clear, with no art or colors on them. Just what I wanted, and I could afford it. When I went to their site to order them, that's when I saw the video on an easy way to shuffle cards with sleeves. There was the trigger. Shuffling those little cards in Merchants & Marauders was no longer an issue and it was soooooo easy.
(I also got into using plano boxes for storing board game parts as well. Just wanted to mention it even though this blog post is about sleeves)
So far I have sleeved Merchants & Marauders, Space Hulk Death Angel, RAF: The Battle of Britain 1940, Space Alert (but only the small cards, I haven't found sleeves for the threat cards yet), and Pandemic (and expansion)
Once I get the money, I want to sleeve Thunderstone (along with all the expansions I have), Nightfall, Mansions of Madness, and Arkham Horror (as well as the expansions)
Other games I have like the few Wings of War games and all of my Munchkin Games I may sleeve after those if I feel like it, but I've already got to spend too much money as it is, and there are more board games that I'd like the have anyway.
So, my fellow Card Sleevers... I now understand you.
Update: 11 Jan 2012: Thunderstone, Nightfall, Quarriors, and Ascension... all sleeved now. 
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