carrying pins to trade

How do you transport/carry your pins to trade at the theme parks or pin trading events? I bought a small brown Disneyland pin bag that only has 3 pages and a zipper pouch. I like the size and wear it on me, but it is now too small to fit everything. What about pins with cards? Should I put those in baseball card 9 pocket pages and put in a binder to put in a backpack? Should I just get a large pin book/case (although it seems I should spend money on pin books/cases to hold my keepers than my traders; I'm watching the large Haunted Mansion pin bag on eBay, for example). I've been pin buying for years and years but only started trading recently, and it is so much fun. I also very much enjoy giving pins to kids (and sometimes adults too) with empty/somewhat empty lanyards, hence I want to bring as many pins as possible. Thanks for any help.

You could get a wide lanyard and a smail pin bag would do ,that's what I always do

I've never done an event, but for the park itself, I do a lanyard and sometimes a small pin bag. If I don't feel like carrying much, I just bring my lanyard and a few random pins in my pocket to trade/give to little kids with lanyards on.

It depends on if you're going to the park to trade or to ride rides. If you're going to trade only (and of course, this applies to pin trading events), binders with the 9 pocket pages work the best because some traders prefer their LE pins to be on the original cards they came on. If you don't have the original cards - either you no longer have them or you traded for them without cards - then the bigger pin bag is the easier/lighter way to go because you can fit more pins per page than 9 pins in those pocket pages. If they are hidden mickey pins, cheaper OE pins, and just "trader" pins in general, some people like to use corkboards; but those are bigger and thus, harder to transport. If your primary goal is trading, you may need a stroller (yes, some people use them without children inside), or luggage / file-case-boxes with wheels. Because you cannot bring luggage into the park (they have said you cannot "drag/pull" anything behind you with wheels, you can only "push" things with wheels - hence the reason some people use strollers or wheelchairs), you can only use luggage / file-boxes with wheels at pin events at hotels.

I usually empty my lanyard of my keepers and take my traders or whatever incomplete set and doubles I have

Since I usually go to the parks to pin trade I take 2 pin bags. A large one and a small one. For our upcoming pin trading party I am bringing 2 large bags and a smaller bag.

If you're just trading casully with CM's and park visitors you really don't need pin cards. I use large binders, that I recycled from where I used to work, with 12' X 18' foam sheets cut to size and hole punched. If you are going to an event or to do serious trading and need to trade the card too, you can attach card and pin to the foam sheet. Thinking about it, you could put 1 or 2 foam sheets in small carboard binder and fit about 5 or 6 binders in a backpack and keep your pins sorted by type. You can fit 15 pins with cards on a sheet and maybe 30 without cards.

dopeydoc3 said:

David is it an east coast party?

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The party this month is by Disneyland. The Central Jersey event is on the east coast.

Truthfully, I love the pin bags that have a bag part and a pin pages part attached to it. The bag part you can use to store whatever you want and the pin part for your pins. Sometimes I will put a binder or smaller pin bag in the bag part, just depends on what I am doing that day. Since they started making those that is what I use for the parks. I have 2 of them I use and one that is brand new never used just in case... LOL.