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Pin bags or boards or...?

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Due to recent acquisitions my collection has overgrown it's storage space (the shopping bag from the park)! How do you store/display your pins? And due you keep them on the card or no? Thanks in advance!
 
Good question. I'm curious to see what others do.

I have a large pin bag. I do remove my pins from the cards and keep inventory on a spreadsheet where I note whether or not it originally came on a card (so I can go back and get it if I ever trade or sell the pin). Then the LEs I put in a plastic sleeve and put them in the pin bag. The OEs are either stored in the pin bag or on its themed lanyard. My husband is working on a display case for his (it will be enclosed in a shadow box).
 
I have multiple bin bags/books (the Disney parks kind) that I primarily use for storage. I have some pins framed and on display but not many. I keep my park traders in a small felt bag for easy transportation and accessibility in the parks. I also don't care for the cards. For the most part, I don't think the cards look good on display. I think most pins just look better on their own. I keep the cards but tucked away and out of sight.

However, I think you should do what you like. If you want to organize your pins on a display board, go for it. Want them on the card, then go for it. They're you're pins and so let them make you happy.
 
We keep most of our collection in 3 ring binders that I have made pages for. I use the clear full sheet pages you can buy at staples or any other office supply store and then put black construction paper in them. That adds some rigidness to them. My wife also has several cork boards for her most favorite pins for each collection she has.
 
Pins on card in big binders. Pins not on card in a pin bag. Hidden Mickey pins and sets we are working on, on cork boards.
 
I frame my pins I will show you some examples:




This one also has inner lighting:


The ones I haven't been able to frame as of yet are still on their cards on a open table on display.
 
I keep my pins in books. Most are not on cards with the exception of my Soda Fountain pins. I keep those in the original packaging. I know some people like boards but I think over time, dust and sunlight may ruin the pins.
 
I just had a similar problem as my pins expanded out of their original container (a very small box :lol and I moved to a bag, although a binder/book would have been nice too. I find corkboards are nice for displaying, but if you REALLY want to display them, make a fancy frame like nsingleton did (I also frame my most special ones, I have photos in my Collection thread, too lazy to pull them up now haha). The problem with corkboards is that they're hard to bring around to many different places since they tend to be large, this is where bags or books come in. I prefer bags since I like knowing I can just zip it open and viola as opposed to taking a book out of bag or carrying the book around all day, but books I find aren't bad either

As for cards, I take all my pins off of cards (usually) since in the bag the card takes up so much room and what I do is I put a post-it on every card with the pin that originally went on it (along with the Pinpics number) so that I can easily identify the card if I'm ever looking for it
 
We are currently struggling with the same dilemma, run out of pin bags we have 10 but they are full and the collection is gradually flowing all over the house!
 
depends on the pin, Traders i keep on the cards in a bag, some parts of my collection i display on borads others i keep in pin books/folders. I only keep the cards for my collection pin for the really speacil LE's or pins I Might be willing to trade at a later date. Box set pins i keep in the boxes. Anything not on display is in a storage box under my bed, (including the books) so ive still got easy access to them.
 
Main Collections? Cork boards in the 'Pin Cave' (currently 22 boards and 8 canvases)
Secondary Collections? Pin Cabinet (custom made with foam cored drawers)
Sub collections? 6 pin bags

Traders? 4 pin bags
 
My keepers are either framed or in my cork display case. My traders are in pin books and shoe box.

BTW....Nate, I love the framed pins. Nice job!!
 
have the larger pin sets in Shadow Boxes on the wall ex: Animation Art series, pics in pin showroom, State Pin set
am working on the PODM pins waiting for the framed set to come back then to put lights behind them, this will be in 2 frames, one has the AP's that I won in Sept the other all the rest of the set. Rest of keepers are in pin bags or in the bags from the events! have traders in separate pin bags as well.
 
I use 3 ring binders. I put sleeves for baseball cards in the binders and place the pins in the sleeves on the original cards. If it's a shopping pin on the big cards I trim them down to fit. You can order the sleeves on EBay I think they are Proline. I buy my binders at Sams club. This will keep your pins and cards from getting damaged. The reason you want to keep your cards is as your collection grows and evolves you will end up trading away some of the pins you now love.
 
A lot of people do boards. I'm a big fan of lanyards, which I hang up. You can also buy baseball card holders and out them in binders on cards. For pins without cards, I've seen people use paint chips from Home Depot or the box they can in if they were a mystery box set.
 
Boards for me... I figure there's no point in having pins if you don't display them and show them off. One is a straightforward board, the other I decided to make a little more artsy. Here are mine...



 
Boards for our keepers bag and binders for our traders. We don't see the point in keeping them if we can't see them. Even our PODMs are in shadow boxes.

A couple of our cork boards.




 
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