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Does a fort need to be indoor only? My neighbor's feedback made me rethink everything
Last month I posted a photo of my living room box fort, all four towers and a tunnel. A guy commented that it wasn't a 'real' fort unless it was built outdoors in the rain. At first I laughed it off, but then I tried building one in my backyard during a drizzle and honestly, the corrugated cardboard turned into a soggy mess within 20 minutes. He argued the challenge makes it better, the stakes feel higher when the walls might collapse. I switched to taping plastic sheeting over the roof panels and bracing the base with rocks, and that actually held up for a full weekend. So which side are you on: strictly indoor forts or do the elements add to the fun? Has anyone else gotten criticism that totally flipped their building method?
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jenny_carr5225d ago
Laughing at the idea that cardboard fort purists exist, but here we are. Honestly the guy kind of has a point, because my best fort memories are the ones where the wind was trying to take the whole thing down. But calling an indoor fort fake is like saying a pillow fort needs a building permit, it is just gatekeeping for no reason. Your plastic sheeting and rock trick is genius by the way, I am stealing that. Forts are forts, rain or shine, and if your towers survived a whole weekend outside then you already won the argument.
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