Well I got a FEW in Feb 2015. No LEs, I had no clue pin trading was even a thing. I just liked the pins.
Then this year, in Oct, I really started getting into it and even got a few LE - though I didn't know they were at the time. That's when I officially started. So.. mm, two months, cuz that was the last week of October! Sadly, I didn't do any actual trading because, well, I'm dumb, lol.
When I got home from that trip, I started looking into pin trading (which is when I found this forum) and looking up tips (I had no idea about scrappers and tbh I'm very happy I learned about them before buying pin lots off of eBay - or trading in the parks).
I came in at a very expensive time, though, what with Halloween/Beauty and the Beast Anniv/Moana/Christmas! And I've already met some pretty sweet people. I'm even considering moving to SoCal or Florida (I wanted to move out of NC well before this anyways, haha).
What made me really happy was that there was a genuine community for it. It's a little difficult for me to socialize (where I work, I'm literally the youngest by some ten years!), and so really it's the community that just sucked me in. So if I seem way too eager to please, forgive me!
I have a bad habit of just getting pins I like though so I've got very few traders.. though I really like trying to keep an eye out for pins I think other people would like.
And I've rambled a lot. ._. Sorry;;
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