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Where do you keep your pins at home?

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Where do you keep your pins at home?

nickel492

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Hey everyone! I've been kinda M.I.A for a bit (last semester of college) anyways, I went to Disneyland last weekend and I got some new pins. I was just wondering how you guys stored your pins at home, right now I just have them hanging on their lanyards.

Thanks!
 
After my last trip to WDW this past August I designed a hanging pin display which my Mom helped me make. I'm currently in the designing stages of making a Nightmare Before Christmas shadow box for my Nightmare collection. I like being able to see my pins!
 
I have several different ways I display my pins... Some are on a canvas that I covered in fabric (an idea from a fellow forum member) Others are kept on a corkboard, some in my trade bag Annnnnd my frozen collection (usually) sits in my shadowbox unless I get to lazy to take them off the lanyard I had made...

Wow... I just realized the ridiculous amount of ways I have them displayed.

In short: Cork board, Fabric wrapped canvas, book, lanyard, shadowbox.
Essentially every method you can...
 
Piles on tables, boxes in closets, and the good ones in a fireproof safe designed for a gun collection...

I am planning on making my first displays someday soon...
 
I finally bought a big pin bag and inserted the cora-plast into the pages. (I hate saggy pages) It cleaned up my mess and no more lost pins. Look in pin display forum for info on the cora-plast.
 
I keep my collection on a cork board and my traders in a pin bag. I am wanting to make a better display for my collection though haven't had much spare time.
 
I have about eight pin bags, organised by theme.

  • My collections (up until now I can keep them in one bag)
  • Villain traders
  • Princess traders
  • Chip 'n Dale and Goofy collection (mine and dad's from when I was little, it has sentimental value so I don't trade them)
  • Tinker Bell collection from my mother
  • My bf's pin bag (Star Wars and Treasure Planet)
  • Other traders
  • Winnie the Pooh collection (same as Chip 'n Dale and Goofy)

And then I have my frames and random pieces of bubble wrap that are scattered around my room with occasionally a pin in them (mostly a UK DS pin).
 
Some are on a cork board, a few are in a shadow box, a lot are in this Halloween themed tupperware box I got from Target last year and the rest sit strategically piled on top of my vanity! I am always trying to think of the best way to shadow box them all by collection so I think that will be their final destination.
 
I use large (rycycled) looseleaf binders with 8 x 8 acid free foam sheets cut in half and hole punched. I keep 3 lanyards, one with the disney resorts I've stayed in, one Phinias and Ferb pins and one with reminders of special things like, my daughters birthday at the Ciderella dinner at the Grand Floridian, my children dancing with Chip and Dale outside of the Magic kingdom, my son hugging the Queen of Hearts on his first trip, etc. My traders are in a pin bag and a son to be trade binder.
 
Everywhere. I have frames in most rooms of our house. For everything not framed, they're in a spare bedroom that we use as a library. Binders, bags, and all over the bed.
 
I make pin boards (see link in my siggy) to display my collection. Some of my collection is also in shadowboxes and on lanyards. My traders are in a bag with coroplast between the cloth pages.
 
An Asian family was in my house before I was and they had a cabinet in the front hallway, about 6feet high, 5 feet wide. They took old cardboard boxes, duct tape and screws and made a shoe locker for their entire family. When they moved out and I moved in, it became my pin closet. I have mostly books and binders sitting in the littel cubbies that used to hold shoes. Luckily they put down bags and newspapers and cleaned it out when they left so it is clean and doesn't smell. I keep my golf bag in there too. It's my man closet my wife had not control over how it is organized.
 
wintersorcerer said:
In a drawer in the kitchen :facepalm:
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Hahaha! Of all the strange places in the house! Only place weirder I guess would be tucking some away in a jewelry case like I do The ones with the rubber that marks easily, I never take out of the bag (or if they didn't have one, I find one to stick them in!!!) because of all the posts I've read on how easy it is for them to get ruined and discolored. I've read that even pin books from Disney mark them up. These guys I keep in my jewelry case away from sunlight and hazards because I really don't want to ruin them! Most of mine are on a little corkboard; a few (lower end trading pins) I keep on lanyards so when I'm in a rush to go I can just grab them!
 
I keep my Alice, Tiki room & a few other pins displayed on an open bookcase, and my Haunted Mansion pins are in the 40th Anniversary black leather-like bag, a curio cabinet & a shadow box. My Pirate pins are attached to a fishing net hanging up in my pirate themed kitchen. A net works great for attaching pins to!
 
I keep my personal stitch collection hanging on my curtains in my room, the rest are scattered on my "fancy" dinning room table :anxious: that's why my boyfriend and I eat in the living room haha!
 
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