western australia

Another jigsaw done and dusted

@JudyEv (341743)

Rockingham, Australia

January 17, 2024 5:57pm CST

While my sister was staying with me, I finished off a large jigsaw with her help. Vince took a photo of it for me. It shows a collection of beer bottles and brands from around the world. It was quite difficult to do but also kept my interest. My sister has lent me two more but they are much smaller than the one I’ve just finished. When I dismantle a jigsaw, I put all the edge pieces in a separate ziplock bag so I don’t have to go to the bother of fishing them out next time I do the puzzle. Do you ever do jigsaws? And do you keep the edges separate for the next time?

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@BarBaraPrz (47611)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

18 Jan

I grew up doing jigsaw puzzles with the whole family. I do them online now (TheJigsawPuzzles.com).

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@BarBaraPrz (47611)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

18 Jan

@JudyEv I dreamt about doing one last night.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

@BarBaraPrz Did you have the dream before you read about them here?

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

I do them online sometimes too and on that same site.

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@BabeSays (8575)

• Mauritius

18 Jan

That's impressive. I did once when I was little during our visit to one of her friends. She gave it to me and asked me to solve it. It kept me busy and she and my mom got to chat without me getting bored.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

That was very smart of your mom's friend.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Jan

@BabeSays We always had a tub full of toys for kids to play with if any ever visited.

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@BabeSays (8575)

• Mauritius

18 Jan

@JudyEv Yes she's a very smart lady. She would always give me toys whenever my mom and I would visit her. She knew how to make kids happy which is why I loved going to her place. Good food and toys were something she always offered and I could not refuse.

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@allknowing (137553)

• India

18 Jan

I do not do jigsaws but am an addict when it comes Wordle and Quordle. I do them every single day

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

They are great fun to do too.

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@Juliaacv (51456)

• Canada

18 Jan

My hubs loves to work on jigsaws, he has one on the go currently. He will pick away at it a bit now and again and have it finished in a few months. The last one that he finished took a very long time, and we glued it together and I hung it in my office.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

I think I remember when your husband finished that one. I remember that it took him a very long time.

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@Juliaacv (51456)

• Canada

18 Jan

@JudyEv Yes, it took him a very long time. It is a winter's scene of a man and a woman in a horse-drawn sleigh coming out of a covered bridge.

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@wolfgirl569 (107859)

• Marion, Ohio

18 Jan

I keep those separate for the ones I am keeping. But I donate a lot of them

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

It just saves a bit of time when you start off.

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@1creekgirl (41686)

• United States

18 Jan

That was quite the endeavor! I really really don't like to do puzzles.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

Fair enough. We'll all different.

I can't stand playing Monopoly!

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Vicki, #1 Creek Girl

@1creekgirl (41686)

• United States

18 Jan

@JudyEv I don't like Monopoly either!

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@snowy22315 (181948)

• United States

19 Jan

My nephew likes to do jigsaw puzzles. I find them just another thing I don't want to apply myself to. If I do have time I want to fill I usually read. I bought a jigsaw puzzle last year, pit 2 pieces together and it sat there for a few months until I realized I wasn't going to do it.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Jan

Now that I don't have so much else to do and can't do a lot of the things I'd like to do, I find myself doing them more often.

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@snowy22315 (181948)

• United States

19 Jan

@JudyEv They can be entertaining I guess

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@RebeccasFarm (90295)

• Arvada, Colorado

1 Feb

Oh I do love this one..so lovely and homey Judy.

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@RebeccasFarm (90295)

• Arvada, Colorado

2 Feb

@JudyEv Yeah it is so vintage and lovely..

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@jstory07 (139782)

• Roseburg, Oregon

18 Jan

I do not do jigsaw puzzles. Cats love them and will slid on them.

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@jstory07 (139782)

• Roseburg, Oregon

18 Jan

@JudyEv That is why I do not brother.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

@jstory07 I can understand that. It would put me off doing jigsaws too.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

That would get pretty annoying after a while.

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@LadyDuck (471969)

• Switzerland

18 Jan

This one was surely not easy too do. I found one not totally completed, I could finish it one day.

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@LadyDuck (471969)

• Switzerland

19 Jan

@JudyEv The one I found is 2000 pieces, it's a big one.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Jan

I brought a small one back from my sisters. Only 250 large pieces. I finished it in an hour and a half. It's good to do easy ones sometimes.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Jan

@LadyDuck That is a big one indeed. They can be a bit intimidating to start with.

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@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

19 Jan

Jigzaw puzzles remind me of the confinements of COVID so I hope I never have to do one ever again This one might have had me feeling thirsty

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

20 Jan

They can certainly fill in a lot of time. It's a pity you are totally over them.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317250)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

18 Jan

I love jigsaw puzzles. I have several. I've never kept the edges separate. Good idea. Mostly I do online puzzles right now.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317250)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

18 Jan

@JudyEv My son frames his puzzles too. I like doing them over.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Jan

@just4him I prefer to do them more than once too.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

I have a few but my sister has A LOT. She has also framed some and put them on the wall.

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16137)

• Nairobi, Kenya

18 Jan

Nice photo. The only jigsaw I ever did was on a website online and it was very small.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

I sometimes do them online but I prefer real ones.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Jan

@mildredtabitha They are in our newsagents and gift shops here.

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16137)

• Nairobi, Kenya

18 Jan

@JudyEv I didn't know there was a real jigsaw. If I find one, I will play.

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@dya80dya (36773)

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19 Jan

No, I never did these.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

20 Jan

They fill in time if you are retired and don't have enough to do.

@GardenGerty (160879)

• United States

18 Jan

I have not done one in ages. My first husband always said I did not do them right (?

) and Bob does not like them. My kids like them. I sent one of my grandsons a puzzle for Christmas and my daughter and her three youngest kids took a picture and sent me last night. It was rows and rows of all the Lego "little people."

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

I can't imagine that there is a right or wrong way to do jigsaws.

The one of the Lego people sounds fun. Vince doesn't enjoy them either.

@Shiva49 (26762)

• Singapore

18 Jan

I do them very rarely. A great way to spend time and keep the mind active.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Jan

I do more now that I'm older and can't do so many other things that I used to do.

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@Ronrybs (19589)

• London, England

18 Jan

I recognised the bottle of Newcastle Brown and Fosters. The colours all looked pretty similar, so that can't have made it easy to do

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Jan

The labels weren't too bad but all the dark glass areas were a bit harder.

@LindaOHio (181237)

• United States

18 Jan

I had a period in which I put together quite a few puzzles. I haven't taken them back out again. I don't separate the edges. Have a good day.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

I have fads of doing them I guess. It's nice to do them with others too.

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@Beestring (14672)

• Hong Kong

18 Jan

That is a large jigsaw. How long did it take you to complete it? I used to do jigsaws years ago, not now.

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@JudyEv (341743)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Jan

The first time I did it on my own it took about a week but I'd only do a bit each day. I get a backache if I spend too long bending over them.

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