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Re:A giant whiteboard for $14 plus nails by proee on Monday July 08, 2019 @12:35AM (#20379915)
My advice is to splurge and get a magnetic whiteboard. I recently bought a huge one at office max for around $150.

Having a giant "magnet board" is quite wonderful. You can hang papers, play with magnet "things", and even purchase magnetic whiteboard pens and erasures that magically stick to the surface - so you never lose them.

Back in my college days when I was broke, I did use these exact shower boards a few times. As mentioned by the author, they tend to not erase well and you end up resorting to using nasty cleaner chemicals.

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Re:A giant whiteboard for $14 plus nails by ifoundthetao on Monday July 08, 2019 @12:46PM (#20384251)
Yeah, that was my exact experience too. They're nice for a while, and they can make great Kanban boards, if you're into that. But I only got a couple years out of them (which is honestly fine, for their cost). If I were a bit more clever, and still needed those types of whiteboards, I would have engineered something to make it easier to remove them from the wall, without having to redrill holes.
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