I’ve been looking for a long time for a real whiteboard solution. The ones I usually run across that look good to me are $100+ dollars. I’ll grant that those have great quality, but for what I’m looking for it may be too much. So I was happily surprised 2 weeks ago while talking with the good people over at Rocky Mountain SuperComputing Center about what to do about this. They told me all I had to do was go to Home Depot and get one of their 8x4feet boards called melamine. I went with the kids to check it out. what I found was indeed an 8×4 foot whiteboard that was perfect for my room. So to my wife’s horror, I dragged this thing up the stairs, hacked a few inches off of it and proudly screwed in 6 screws to against my wall.
Total cost? $11.43. (screw cost not included) So naturally I looked at this and thought: I need more whiteboard!
So next Saturday when I get some time, I’ll be going back to the Home Depot and getting 3 more of them and it will cover my entire wall. Total cost for an entire wall: ~ $44. You can’t even buy a standard good whiteboard for that much money.
The benefits are endless:
– Teach my kids that its ok to write on walls.
– Late night math equations
– No more lost lists of feature requests.
Oh, and here’s the best part: If it gets old and stained, and I need to replace it? No problem, just take the old stuff down and turn it upside down and build a half-pipe out of it and I’ll just skate on it.
There really is nothing that makes a house a home like a wall of whiteboard to write on.
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