i'm another that loves board games, so i might not be much help here! we have ummmm a lot more than 20 hehehe. now that DH is back home permanently we're even talking to bro and SIL about dinner and games night starting up once a week again

anyhoot - back to your issue - maybe you need to let a central person know that you guys don't really need board games - that you'd prefer other family gifts (if that's what they want to give) - things like totem tennis come to mind... i guess when people know a family spend a lot of time together, they look at activities for all of them (and i know that i do my best to avoid electronic games when buying gifts!) - it's hard to know what sort of thing people will use

as to culling your "collection" - maybe make an effort to play them all again, see which ones the kids are too old for or find boring, and hand them on. the ones they like, play with now - and the ones that are a bit advanced, keep dragging out.

i know when we were younger, we used to drag a game out every now and again until we actually understood it - then we'd play it to death - and now we drag them out for nostalgic reasons.

hmm, if E goes to bed nicely tonight, might have to drag a game out to play...