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When did pin trading get serious for you?

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I just started last month just doing a bunch of Hidden Mickeys around the park. until I saw someone's pins in the park. They collected Jessica Rabbit and was amazed at all the pins that I've never even seen before. I still enjoy doing hidden mickeys but I think I'm ready for blow more money on these bigger pins!!!
 
I got home from WDW last year and my sister was showing me all of her pins she got, and why she got them and how important they were to her... I thought it was cool that she was so attacked to these pins!

So I looked them and saw they were a HUGE thing, and sounded like a fun hobby.

So I bought a Ton of pins I liked from people on this forum, (toy story, nemo, pirates, sorcerer mickeys) and bam.... I was addicted.

I never have traded with anyone on DPF because I don't think my pins are good enough yet.... But I DID do my first legit trade this week in WDW with a cast member! Boy I enjoyed it!
 
>Friends don't let friends pin trade...
Oh really~? You can always give me all your traders :P Just saying
 
When I joined DPF I suppose, I had some UK LE's from when they sold them in store and I thought they were pretty beforehand. Then I semi got interested so brought a lot :facepalm: as you can guess a scrapper lot. Then started buying pins from UK store but as I said didn't do the whole trading thing until I joined here and then on my trip to DLRP and had my first experience with trading with CMs I knew I was hooked for life!!
 
I started with HM's at WDW in April of 2011. Then in June 2011 I got into LE's with DLR's Sci-Fi Academy. From there it grew until I found out about Soda Fountain and now I am where I am today. Going on a Disney Cruise of the Med for a week and DLRP for 2 days and hauling traders half way around the world just to trade pins for maybe 3 days of a month long trip.
 
I would just randomly buy pins I thought were cool when we went to Disneyland or the Soda Fountain. After seeing the Gumball pins from the Soda Fountain (and waiting in line at 5 am) we got hooked!
 
January 2000! I had wanted to trade for the Millennium pins, and I met some super folks trading (DIS forum) at (the then) MGM Studios, and the rest is HISTORY...going on 14 years of fun pin trading with so many super people!!!! :-) :-)
 
my son who is now 15 I have been buying him pins for years instead of buying him toys and junk at the park I would buy him a pin each visit ( at least twice a month) then he started pin trading everytime we went off laynards. about three years ago my husband and I was at disney and he got the pin bug also and thats when we really got big into it.
 
Pin-A-Colada said:
Friends don't let friends pin trade (purchase). This is a pin-tervention, get out while you still have money in your wallet!

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I agree! I feel like I'm spending way too much money as it is on pins when I could be spending them on something else (clothes!)
 
I had a couple of pins I bought at DLR when I went in 2000 but didn't know about pin trading. Then in 2010, I accidentally stumbled across the Dizpins site. That was it for me. I've been trading and collecting ever since! I even got my adult daughter (Onlera) hooked! Once I got my first "Minnie as" pin... I was toast! It's more fun when it's a family addiction!
 
For me, pin trading got serious when I joined this forum :). I've collected pins for years now, but I would really only get into when I was actually at WDW. Whenever I got back from there, I would slowly forget about them until our next trip. Since joining this forum, I've been more into pins than I ever was :D.
 
For me I didn't get serious until last month. My first year of pin trading was just buying some pins here and there, but now it's been crazy. lol
 
After my wife and I got back from our Disneyland Honeymoon almost 11 years ago and looking at our fist pins we had purchased, I decided to see what this whole pin trading thing was about and found Dizpins, pinpics, and expanded my eBay searching from Star Trek models to Disney pins. At that point it was game on.
 
Like most others, when I joined the forum, but I didn't realize I was crazy until I started buying pins specifically to trade. Honestly, I think I wanted to get serious when I saw all of tiggermickey and docfish2u's trades :lol:
 
After my last trip to Disneyland USA a year ago... Up to then I had a few pins that I had picked up here and there as mementos or which had somehow landed in my possession... A Disneyland 50th Anniversary pin and a Walk in Walt's Footsteps pin from my trip in 2006, a 15th Anniversary Disneyland Paris pin when I was there in 2008, some 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea pins from Tokyo Disneysea in 2009, and so on... Not a serious collection, just souvenirs. On my May 2012 trip to Disneyland, I did some trading and I saw virtually EVERYONE wearing pins around the park, and I got the bug. When I got home I joined this forum and decided on my collection: pins related to Jules Verne that feature Disney characters. Over the course of the last year I've pretty much completed my collection to my satisfaction... My most recent additions were from my trip to Disneyland Paris (with a visit to the Walt Disney Family Museum on our layover) about two weeks ago. I've thought about starting up a Main St. USA collection that hasn't gone anywhere, but in Paris I did pick up a great pin of Mickey with a skeleton pirate from the Pirates of the Caribbean: Legend of the Golden Pins series and I'm tempted to try and finish off that one (or at least the ones with Mickey and Friends). I also need to get a bigger board for my Jules Verne pins, since I am now so officially out of space that I can't even fit all the ones I DO have on it.
 
I think pin trading became serious for me about 6 months or so after I started collecting in 2011.... Up to then I'd buy pretty much every uk release every fortnight and just be happy collecting the various pins and looking at them, then I found this wonderful community, and realised that there was a whole lot more to pin collecting than I had first realised....being in the uk I never realised the other vast array of Pins available at various locations, and being a newbie was still on a learning curve!

I then made the decision to zone in one 2 of my favourite movies, which are UP! And Alice in wonderland,and concentrate on these.....the rest is history! My Alice collection has sadly succumbed to UP! As I realised for me personally there were too many Alice pins to collect, and so I decided to collect just up! I was advised against it by many, telling me they're impossible to get which I guess spurred me on even more....this is when it became serious for me....some of these pins are pricey no hard to trade for....it became a bit of challenge! Bt I have I say I enjoy pin trading a whole lot more for it!!
 
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