Back in the box for another time. I thought about mounting one once but I didn't get to it in time and a piece went missing.

Once completed, back in the box they go for another day! We use our puzzles over and over again and the fun value never decreases for us. We mostly only pull out puzzles during the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year months and usually buy a new puzzle or two every year (we've only been doing this for a few years) to add to the collection so we increase our assortment.

We really like the Disney Thomas Kinkade puzzles.

Back in the box and really IMO these mounted are just not that appealing.

I place the edge pieces in a baggy and then put the puzzle back in the box. I trade puzzles with my sister and niece. It's always fun to see what they pick out, and they enjoy mine as well. Eventually, they get donated or sold at a garage sale.

i give to charity

We have a closet to put puzzles

We have a family tradition of finishing at least one puzzle over the Christmas holidays. We about 15 large 1500+ piece comic puzzles as well as 3D puzzles which we rotate each year so only do the same one again after many years. The comic puzzles have a lot of detail and are lots of fun to do as a family

I love puzzles! But between having kids, a cat, and now a new puppy, I have not been able to do many over the last many years. I worked on one with a friend a few years back and she thought it was special enough to mount and display. I'm glad she did as I felt that way too! Generally speaking though, I put them back in the box. There have been one or two (before kids) that I completed and then carefully disassembled in sections so I could easily reassemble it and mount at a later time (which I have not done yet though-LOL).

We used to do them when our kids were home and always when they were home for break during their college years. We would set up a card table and just work on them as we wanted. Sometimes just finding a piece as we walked passed the table. Sometimes several of us would sit and down and spend time working them. We do simple ones with our grandchildren now. They love them and are really getting good at them.

I love puzzles, especially the Liberty wooden puzzles. My sister-in-law, another friend and I subscribe to the Liberty puzzle of the month club -- each of us picks 4 puzzles. Then we swap them around, loan to friends, etc. Ultimately, when everyone is done, we sell them on eBay and recoup enough of the puzzle price to go buy new ones.

Jigsaw puzzles help me relax and are great to have on the go to share with a visitor. Before dismantling, I take a picture of completed puzzle.

I do them online, so I don't have that issue. The site I like is thejigsawpuzzles.com.

Cool! Robbi!

I do puzzles on my iPad with the magic puzzles app. They have puzzles that you do not know what it is until you are finished. They are my favorite. Just something about not knowing what it looks like is fun.

Mount and frame them for display

is there anyone but me left who gets the tactile responses provided by actually touching things?

I usually put them back in the box and do them again. Once I have the pieces memorized, I give it away or it sits in a closet forgotten forever. I'm thinking of mounting a one I bought recently and putting in my office at work, though. I think my coworkers would appreciate it. I love finding puzzles with no box so you have no idea what they are. My favorite are 3D wooden puzzles. I collect them. Fun and they look great as decorations!

@burdnerd: I love doing puzzles on my computer when I'm bored, but I've never found them as fun as real ones. There's just something about a real puzzle.

@havingfun: Nothing beats the real thing. Puzzles, books, conversations, it's always better in real life.

@havingfun: It feels like the old school people prefer to continue doing things the old school way. Real paperback books, actual physical puzzles and crosswords in the newspaper, etc. The folks that were brought up with the new things also feel comfortable with them because this is what THEY learned on. It's really all the same-yet so different. I am old school for the record!

Great thought, I love puzzles, did many 3d ones which I displayed but when started getting dusty, gave it to local kindergarten and salvation....just did a sherlock holmes speckled band,. No pic, just puzzle so toughest, but realized 9 pieces were missing when 1000 were all made, so going to flip it, number them and pass it on. My pride and joys are 1100 piece Terry Rose ski poster, that I did and framed for sons 21st bday and marilyn Monroe 300 piece Andy Warhol for my daughter; smaller ones can be framed, key is to look for standard size so no custom framing needed. Love the puzzles in the box!

24 by 36 on box; was 24 3/8 by 36.5 and needed custom framing; while at Michaels!

....or make frame and gift....as art! The key lesson I learnt that every person is our life is impt to teach us something, without which the picture is incomplete! The 1100 piece puzzle, was missing the last piece for over 3 months, which my hubby found buried in sofa edge but was going to frame with last piece missing, black on edge and the note below, to my son to treat all those that come in his life with respect and have a more fulfilling life. Sorry for long description but had to share this labour of love and my pov...

Since I tend to receive jigsaw puzzles as gifts, I do have a collection. Once I complete one, it's either saved or given away. I donate most to a place like a Senior Citizen or Safe Home for women children or another group home. The ones I keep are generally artistic in nature and very difficult to do other than just putting together a pix of dots of different sizes. I have redone them over and over and never get tired of those.

Ones I save are several from the M.C. Escher series; interesting reprints of old black and white photographs such as the Brooklyn bridge, London Tower or a Pen & Ink intricate drawing of an old Southwestern Bell series (1978) of the yellow pages cover for Area Code 713 (Greater Houston). That was a limited edition and I still have all the pieces! Most of what I save are the 500 piece size but are very difficult to put together even after doing it several times.

I am currently doing a series of "fantasy" jigsaws but am not really finding them a challenge even though they range from 500-1000 pieces. I'll probably end up donating them once I do them.

IMO, Stave Puzzles are probably the best in the world. I love their teaser puzzles or the New Yorker Covers. I have two of theirs that are keepers and have probably put them together at least a half dozen times over the years. They never get stale nor easy!

Our puzzles go back in the box and are shared with family and friends or donated to special care homes etc ...however we do have a tradition of rebuilding a Father Christmas puzzle early in December and displaying it for the Christmas season ..this is going on 20 plus years now

Donate them to a retirement home or adult day care and some child care centers, if we didn't, we would have hundreds of puzzles .

We buy them from www.mrpuzzlehead.com

I love doing puzzles. I put them away to do again. Once tired of them I donate them. Recently donated a bunch to a psych/mental health facility when I found out they like to get them as many clients trying to detox find it helpful to have something to do with their hands.