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When I was still a kid, my parents made sure I had some really good board games for Christmas. Then, when I wanted to play them, we played at least a couple of times all together. After that, I had friends who loved playing those games too. Board games might be passe’ or maybe not. I do believe that people are still interested in them because everyone can participate whereas computer games are difficult unless everyone is on their own computer.

So, what type of board games are still available? Well, of course, the old standard..Monopoly. That game alone has so many variations that it will take quite some time just viewing them. For instance, there is the standard game, the electronic bank edition, Spider-Man 3 Monopoly, Monopoly Jr. Disney edition, Disney Pixar Monopoly, Monopoly Spongebob, Monopoly Express, Littlest Pet Shop Edition, Monopoly Tropical Tycoon DVD Game, Monopoly, Here and Now and last but certainly not least, Monopoly Luxe with a $7,500 price tag. There are more, of course, but I needed to stop for a bit.

Anyone for Monopoly?

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I have to tell you that I could not believe this particular game, although I should since so much out there in the market is crazy anyway, was available to sell. Now, I am not going to give you the link. You have to find that yourself. But this is great. The only problem I can see is that the thing would make me so hungry for chocolate while I was playing that if I did not have a fresh supply of chocolate, it would be time to head for the store…hopefully BEFORE the game started. If not, that game could be called because of chocolate lack. LOL!

Yes! It IS a real game. The way this one works is buy favorite chocolate properties, sort of like the old monopoly game, you collect chunks of chocolate. You can trade them in for chocolate factories. It’s deceptive in how it sounds…real easy, but you also need to suppress your cravings or get sent to Chocoholics Anonymous. Oh NO!!! This can be a chocoholics dream or something dreadful. ACK! Looks like fun to me. Ah, go hunt it up and give it to somebody for Christmas!!!

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I am not a fanatic football fan. Nevertheless, I do like to watch football from time to time. The problem that I had initially at home was that my husband has never been, even remotely, a sports fan. But when I showed him a game, he got into the action because he loves strategy games and football is nothing if not strategy in the pros. So now, when I watch football so does he. My favorite teams have been picked because of their helmets or their team colors. But, hey, I am female so I can pick any old way I want to.

When I was about 10 years old, watching pro football on television was born out of desperation, really. My Dad wanted to watch it and I could watch that or go do something else. What can I say? I was a bored kid. It was Sunday and Dad was not about to go riding in the car for the heck of it, which we seldom did. So, I got the football bug.

Having traveled around the country, I thought about it a lot whether I would actually go see a pro game or not. Even when I was is Cleveland, it crossed my mind to go see about Browns tickets but I usually went on because I had to do my job. Sigh. It could have been a very sweet deal but I also knew that it was possible that by the time I got back through Cleveland, the game would be over. Bad news there.

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