How do you put your chess pieces in their box?

I recently bought the Club combo from House of Staunton via the USCF, and it is a very nice set (I feel like I should have paid five times the price -- but then again, I'm normally a cheap person). It comes with a nice if fairly standard box, slide-top and two compartments for the pieces. Ideally I'd just stand them all up in there, but more than a few of the pieces are too big for that, as is just lying them down in an orderly manner.

How do you put your pieces away? Just... carefully if unceremoniously dump them in? 

On purpose.

No.

Can you post a picture?

A romantic walk?

By the way, that's really good idea.

Why would it need batteries?

Excellent topic!

I have been strugling for years with exactly the same problem, I just didn't dare to ask!

LOL @ the batteries

Head first!

Mine like to be driven around in the car so they can fall asleep. 

I methodically lay the pieces in the box in the following order:  King and Queen; two bishops; two knights; two rooks, and eight pawns.  I've found that this is the best order to get the pieces to fit in the box, but, more importantly, it's a logical way to make sure that I don't get home and find that I left one of the pieces at the tournament site.

Bowerick - about that . . . . I got an email from one of your white rooks (the one with the small chip in his base - he says you call him "snookums").   Anyway, he's feeling a little uncomfortable with the level of affection you show.   He likes you as a friend and he swears it's not you, it's him.   He's just not in a place where he's ready for a relationship right now - but he totally wants to keep hanging out with you and he hopes that things don't get 'weird' between you now that he's shared this . . .

And how and when have you, HIghnoon, made acquaintence to Wowbagger's friends and harem?

#1 Chess pieces always feel comfortable talking to me because I'm a good listener.

#2 I went to high school with his spare white queen - we were together for a while, she was a year behind me and when I went to college, things kind of fell apart between us.   We were just in different places - I was ready to experience a whole new world at college and she wanted things to stay the way they had always been.  No one was to blame - we just slowly grew apart and we both moved on . . .   Anyway, back to your question, we still stay in contact once in a while.  I assume she shared my email with the rooks . . .

Then how do you explain all the children Wowbagger has? There are eight of them!

Hmmm - I think you'd have to ask him.   Are you considering the pawns as children?   If so, that shows a very low opinion of children - that they are 'human shields' to be sacrificed to protect grownups, etc . . .   And only a very small percentage of them are allowed to grow up themselves and become adults - it really makes chess a sick game when you think about it that way.

Teh. 

They are captured, after all. Not killed. 

Oh well - that makes it better then.   Capturing children and preventing them from growing up, using them as human shields, etc.  Maybe that's how people do things in Canada!

Okay, you win! They're not children then!

OP, I totally get your question.  I have a nice HOS set that I bought on Ebay that did not come with a box.  I keep them in the original shipping box for now because each is somewhat "fitted" in foam that keeps them separate from other peices so chipping will never be a factor. 

I am an okay woodworker so I will be making my own fitted storage box for the pieces and each piece will have its own "home".   Fitted is DEFINITELY the way to go.  Or, you can do what someone above said, place the king and queen first, then other pieces on top of them.