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Thought provoking questions for pin traders!

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Thought provoking questions for pin traders!

Aquata

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So I was having a conversation with Mali87 (Melissa) last night and we were discussing our collections and the following questions came up -

How long do you plan on collecting Disney pins?

If you still have your collection as you get older and get closer to your deathbed (morbid thought, I know...), what would you do with your pins?

Now keep in mind that Disney pins have been around for quite some time as it stands. I'd say that in the last five years has the hobby really "boomed". While it may not always have this much attention and may die off significantly at some point, I think it's safe to say that as long as there is Disney there will be pins to collect and there will always be collectors.

Now onto my answers...

I really plan on collecting for as long as I can. I can honestly foresee that I will go in "spurts" most likely where I'm more actively collecting at some points in my life than others but overall, this is my only real "collecting" hobby that I'm passionate about. I love seeing my collection grow 🙂

As for the second question, if I become old and on my deathbed, I would HOPE... that I would have stayed active in the pin community and know some collectors. That being said, since I don't plan on having any children and have no siblings who would have had children to pass the pins onto, I'd most likely give my collection to a fellow pin trader/collector/Disney memorabilia lover who would really cherish it and take care of the pins. I'd like to think that I could blow someone's mind some day by just giving them this life long collection of pins that includes some (by that time) that are very old and VERY HTF pins (if they all hold up but I treat my pins really well so... fingers crossed). If I kick the bucket early for some tragic reason, I've already told Melissa that she gets my collection (she promised not to poison my ice cream :lol🙂

So I'm interested to hear answers 🙂
 
provided we continue to go to Disney every couple of years. I can see myself being active in some way. But I tend to go in spurts with all my hobbies. I hope this one lasts a long time. I would pass mine on two my kids, unless they were really really not interested. Then maybe donate them to a charity or fellow pin collector. I have already said when we died. I want to be cremated and my ashes spread at Disney. So it's not morbid to me. lol
 
wow..i like your anwser... i would want to do the same.. 1st my kids could have it.. but if not. than it should go to a collector that loves pins and will take good care of them for as long as they have them.

pay it forward....
 
If I was on my way out,I would sell them and take one hell of a vacation before I bit the dust..except my hubby gets my scoop pin that scoop gave and signed for me,the others would go bye bye
 
Ive been collecting various things for years now, I have kept at it but obviously as I collect more it slows down. I have acquired a large bulk of herc pins pretty quickly so I suppose it will slow down soon. I have no plans of stopping but I dont know what will happen when I run out of or cannot get hold of any more hercules pins. Maybe anouther film will come out I will love as much.
 
Before I die I will buy a pirate treasure chest. I will fill it with my best and rarest collections. The day I die I will have my lawyer pm blast everyone from DPF/what ever community I talk to with a treasure map.

First one to find them wins.
 
I don't plan on having kids, so I would let my partner do what she wants with the pins. Hopefully, she would save the few she likes and either trades/sells the rest.
 
I have been collecting for over 10 years now and only had 1 slow down. I trade as much to deal with other people then for the pins themselves. If I knew I was dying, I would zap some people here and sell the rest to help pay for any bills I have built up. Don't want to leave debt for somebody else to deal with. If I died out of the blue, my wife would have our kids list the pins on ebay to cover any costs they have.
 
I'd like to think that, if I'm blessed enough to have children, that I'll give my pins to them, because lets face it, with me for a mother, they'll grow up with Disney from the day and hour they're born.
 
I love everyone's ideas and thanks! XD I know I would definatly want my family to be in good standing first of course...but I REALLY am considering the treasure thing now LOL
 
My grand daughter will get my collection. Hopefully in 15 years, pins will still hold their worth. If not, I will stay selling them in theme like Lay and The Tramp in their shadow boxes.
 
Believe it or not, my husband and I just talked about this tonight! I told him to list the pins on Ebay to help pay bills and such. He said that he would give them to our kids.

In further discussion, he told me to get them listed for insurance purposes.
 
I think I'd give them to my hubby and any kids we may have in the future... I just asked Tim (hubby) what he'd do with them... he said he'd keep them and buy a huge canvas and pin them all and hang the canvas. He also said if we had kids, he'd give them to the kids when they were old enough to appreciate them.
 
Omg, this thread should be titled "Morbid questions for pin traders" lol. I realize that I don't need every pin and will probably only limit myself to maybe 30ish in the future if I decide to end this hobby ;( (ex. PODMs, my favorites, the one with stories, etc.)
 
I've also been trading and collecting over 10 years, with slow downs here and there, but never really stopping. I still enjoy it, so I don't see any end to it anytime soon. It's not just the pins, I've made *so many* friends through it over the years (people I'm still friends with), so that's even more of an incentive to me.

My husband and I do have a will. If I go first, everything goes to my husband (or vice versa, if he goes first). All my personal *girly* stuff (like jewelry) goes to my sis. At least I know if I go first, my pins will have a happy home (hubby and I are both into pins, he has been a little longer than I have, even!).
 
Romancing_Train said:
Before I die I will buy a pirate treasure chest. I will fill it with my best and rarest collections. The day I die I will have my lawyer pm blast everyone from DPF/what ever community I talk to with a treasure map.

First one to find them wins.
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After I talked with my boyfriend tonight he decided that we will add PoDMs with edited scenes also, that will give extra hints.
 
I've been sorta' wondering about this since my collection was completed-for-the-time-being. My Jules Verne collection will only grow as new pins are released, which is not frequently. I only know of one coming up, which is the DLRP Mysteries of the Nautilus pin I hope is out by the time we go in May. My memento collection is going to grow with each new park I visit, and those would most likely be kept until I'm dead because those are the true souveniers. I could see eventually selling off my Verne collection as a complete set, or giving the whole lot to someone I know would appreciate it. I have no idea if kids are in my future (I say ""no," girlfriend says "maybe please?") but I suppose if they are and into Verne and Disney, then they would get 'em.

Right now I'm trying to fight the urge to start another set, since I don't really have the money. It's tough when I see people selling pretty much all the Haunted Mansion pins I would want.
 
Yeah 'twas a great convo Mrs. Aquata 😉

So for the first question, "how long do you plan on collecting disney pins?"

For me this could wax and wane throughout my life really. I may take a break from it here and there due to various reasons (i.e.money, life, quality of pins (prolly this one would be the most likely) and/or how much I have to deal w/ shark/mean traders who lowball me) but I don't think I will EVER get tired of classic Disney stuff (newer Disney stuff is an entirely different topic :/). I'm a Disney child at heart, so I don't think I will ever stop stop collecting pins for good. I'm hoping my future bf/husband will enjoy the hobby as much as I do 🙂

I also just hope pins don't turn out like Beanie Babies did. Does anyone remember when they were like hotcakes, some "rarer" one sold for over $100, buying many for between $10 to $75 a piece... and now u can find tons of them at Goodwill/Salvation Army for less than $1 a piece? :facepalm: If Disney pins ever got to that point I'll prolly be kicking myself and/or bashing my head against a wall. Imagine if a Rapunzel r/c or PoDMs ended up in that $1 bin :shock:

Next question, "What will I do w/ my pins when the time comes...?"

Well I definitely plan on having children, so if they appreciate pin trading/Disney as much as I do I will leave my pins to them, perhaps depending on their character they collect (i.e. one of my children may collect Sleeping Beauty, the other NBC). I love seeing families where pin trading is a family affair; I hope my family when I have it will have something like that to bond with 🙂 Although I'm wondering/hoping on if everyone in the family should collect different things... I can only imagine the bickers my family and I would get into if we ALL collected Ariel or Rapunzel pins for example, hahaha.

If my children didn't care for the pins/Disney in general (bc I have sworn NEVER to impose anything extracurricular activities/hobbies on my children unless they genuinely wanted to do it themselves), I would definitely pass them on to a friend I know who will appreciate and cherish them (and definitely NOT go sell them on Ebay, no matter how valuable my pins are :rant🙂. I know Aquata will definitely get my Ariel/NBC collection if that happens, and perhaps my Rapunzel collection if it's anything worthy by that time (She SOOOO frickin' hard to collect! 😡). Idk about the other parts of my collection bc I collect a little bit of everything (and who knows what my collection will look like by then!), but Aquata gets first dibs! 😉 lol

And yes ::raises hand:: I promised to NOT poison her ice cream....🙂suspect: this month....)



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LOL j/k j/k Aquata, u know I luv ya! ;P
 
1. I will quit when my Wants list on pinpics reaches 0. Or if I spend over $600 on a single pin.
2. I dunno, throw them out?
 
gis said:
1. I will quit when my Wants list on pinpics reaches 0. Or if I spend over $600 on a single pin.
2. I dunno, throw them out?
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My response to your answer to #2= :shock:

I'll take 'em if u don't want them! Especially your Ariel/princess pins! 😀 They'll have a good home! 🙂 lol
 
I live in the here and now, otherwise my anxiety would totally defeat me. IF I have pins when I am old, and IF the world is as it is now... chances are I will tell my kids to sell my pins to pay fer my funeral. lol
 
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