 because I seem to have this habit now that every time I complete a puzzle I feel like I have to do this. Compare how both Eboo and Masterpieces stand up to my non-permanent storage method. Now for those of you who are new here I'll quickly go over what I'm talking about in terms of the non-permanent method and if you haven't seen my first couple of attempts using this method on two other brands then I'll leave a link down below to where I did my first puzzle storage video. But then after we quickly go over that you're going to join me as I try to use my puzzle mat for the first time. Now I'm not sure how well or how bad this is going to go for me but I'm sure that'll be interesting. I'm really curious how this is going to turn out and we're going to use this on my Masterpiece puzzle. So let's get down to business. First things first let's go over Eboo real quickly. Now I was successful in putting this puzzle away using my non-permanent method of choice but I do have to say it wasn't as easy as the Buffalo Games puzzle. All the pieces did hold up very well together. I was even able to lift it from the puzzle board and it stayed in one piece which was great. So just doing that alone made me realize that this was actually going to work. So I did my usual counting of pieces on each side just to make sure it fits within the box and then try taking the sections apart. But the reason why I say this wasn't as easy as when I did it with the Buffalo Games puzzle was because it was almost like the pieces did not want to come apart at times and areas that you didn't want to come apart would. So it felt delicate in some areas but where I really needed it to come apart it was a little difficult. There were some casualties along the way but it was nothing disastrous. Once I got the section that I wanted out I did any little repairs I had to do and I saved it in the box and I did that for the rest of the puzzle. Overall it wasn't the smoothest process but I got the results that I wanted in the end and just to give it some kind of support or cushion in the box once all the sections were inside I just took the bag that the pieces came in kind of folded it up and put it in the middle and just covered the box. Now I plan to store this box laying flat but then I realized well I have nowhere to put this flat so it has actually for the last week in a bit it's been standing vertically and I haven't opened it up to see what it looks like so um let's see because I didn't really put any like bubble or anything to keep it supported. That fooled me for a second. Ah look guys oh well you see that's not terrible it's still trying to hold now I just folded it up. What have I done? There we go. So as you can see I'm trying so the hold is not as strong as with Buffalo Games. Everything seems intact in here to be honest. Nothing has fallen apart in here which is great and I've been had I've had it standing up the whole time. Obviously I'm trying to like take the sections out and some of the pieces do come out but I mean I just pop them back in and it's fine but overall this is really not bad honestly for standing vertically and I didn't put tape on the box I probably should just to keep just to make sure that it stays you know closed but I mean that's all I've done seems pretty darn good to me it's not bad. Considering that it wasn't the strongest holding puzzle if that makes sense it holds up it does the job which is nice. Now if it were to fall apart one day if I open it again or fall to a million pieces I'm not gonna be too heartbroken because honestly that puzzle was pretty easy in my opinion to put together and it didn't take me very long so I won't be so crushed so that's fine. Now let's move on to masterpieces. Now one thing I noticed immediately after I completed the masterpiece Hershey Park puzzle was how strong it held together because I seem to have this habit now that every time I complete a puzzle I feel like I have to do this. Not bad huh? Watch me drop it. Oh jeez. I'm not getting to it then look at it it's still holding together I don't know if you could see that but one section I just banged it against something and all it did was bend slightly but it's holding on. Now I haven't done this one yet so let's do that together. All right so let's get started with this one here let me get my box. All right we have let's do our counting to 10 by 11 so always get your box ready so that you could start popping the sections in. All right let's get my life. Oh yeah oh this is magic this is wonderful look how easy that was oh my goodness look at that guys we have very thick puzzle pieces here so that's why. This worked out really well for this brand they came out fairly easily those probably maybe just about five or six pieces that came loose from the edges so that was an easy fix they stacked on top of each other really nicely and they went into the box really well so honestly I think masterpieces did a better job at this than buffalo games and it just has to be because of those thick pieces it was definitely much easier to do than on the buffalo games puzzle so what do you know in terms of my favorite non-permanent method of storage for my puzzles it looks like masterpieces has hit first place buffalo games is number two now and he boos at third place but that's okay seco doesn't even make the list it didn't even try to make the list but anyways let's move on to the puzzle mat. Hit the like button if you have one of these puzzle mats and also if you do let me know if you use it very often but let me know your personal experience with this all right here we go now let's see what the instructions are first we have to spread out and flatten the mat on a smooth surface then we have to fully inflate the tube please note that the inflatable tube is not for lifesaving anyways roll up make sure the jigsaw puzzles are flat before rolling up the mat place the inflated tube at one end and then roll up the mat slowly by applying even pressure then lastly fasten both ends of the mat with the enclosed elastic bands for easy storage and transport all right guys i'm gonna do my best here to film this but let's open this up and see what we have inside all right so here we have the mat i guess these here are the elastic bands they have velcro on them and it comes with two of them so let's put those on the side because we'll need those last here's our inflatable tube the only dilemma i'm seeing here is that i gotta inflate this uh this is a lot i have asthma i'm gonna be wasted by the time i'm done with this okay the tube is inflated that was that was strenuous all right and let's open up this mat it just seems like a piece of felt fabric to be honest it's nothing sturdy obviously because you have to roll it up let's lift up the master pieces puzzle and let's get this mat under it all right so we have this on this seems pretty big i guess it doesn't really matter where you start with it all right let's try here i guess we do this right so start on the edge and then just roll from there okay i feel i feel in here the puzzles crying a little bit all right now it looks like we have a sausage so once you have your sausage ready put your elastic bands on all right i mean i think that's it the puzzle's inside i mean you're probably not supposed to do this i don't know why i'm doing that but i guess just to see how well this lets the puzzle hold up all right what happens if i do this that probably wasn't a good idea the last part of the test is let's open it and see what's happened to my puzzle this is probably not a good you know i just kind of smashed it on the table but let's see i guess that's not bad right all you have to do is kind of flatten the pieces back down and i mean it did its job it's it saved the puzzle and you could put the tube anywhere once it's all rolled up you could store it in a closet i mean i guess if you like to keep your puzzles that way you'll have multiple sausages in your closet but you know this works really i'm i'm surprised i would be curious though how this can save a puzzle that is not fully completed to me that sounds like that would be a real test because if you need to stop your puzzle midway store it somewhere else until you can get back to it will it hold up well if it's not fully completed or does it have to be fully completed i don't know i think that's for another video we're gonna have to try that next time but obviously with that you would have to start the puzzle whilst this black mat is on the table so yeah i think we'll try that next time but i think honestly this puzzle mat is it was a success this it works which is fantastic this is great i kind of want to do it again now wow i mean as i said you just gotta push them back down but that's not bad at all this is fantastic i would recommend this this is good stuff i'd be curious how well this would work for a number of puzzle brands let me know what brands you've used this puzzle mat on i'd be curious to know that turned out better than i expected so yeah i don't know how well that would work for a half completed puzzle or one that's you know barely started probably not well now that i think about it but again let me know your experiences using a puzzle mat but yeah it's good stuff i just got my sausage hanging on the side there are the pile of puzzles that i need to find the home for in my house but it does the job that was fun i'm really glad that the puzzle mat worked out for me and it wasn't a catastrophe which was what i really expected but thankfully it wasn't so if you're interested in picking one of these puzzle mats up and i highly recommend it now i'll leave a link down below in case you're interested in looking more into it but anyways guys i hope this video gave you some good information on these puzzle mats and help you get an idea on different ways to store your completed puzzles but yeah this is pretty useful and speaking of useful i'm gonna have a video coming out soon on kind of like my favorite puzzle items favorite puzzle must-haves so stay tuned for that all right guys well i'm gonna go figure out which puzzle i'm going to do next and it might not necessarily be a flat jigsaw puzzle so if you want to find out exactly what i'm talking about and if you're new here be sure to subscribe so that you can keep up to date with all my puzzle reviews and see what new tips and tricks i come up with and i always got new puzzles coming in anyways guys thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one