What do you do with your medals? - The DIS Discussion Forums

wdwprncess77 · 09-28-2009, 09:31 PM

I'm just curious what everyone does with their medals. I just got my first. I hope there will be many more. I'm just wondering what everyone does with them. I kind of just want to carry it around everywhere with me to prove I can put my mind to anything, but I'm not sure wearing that in an executive meeting is so professional.

I'd love some ideas.

WDWFAN9 · 09-28-2009, 10:19 PM

Hi Jane! I understand completely about wanting to carry around your medal!

I copied an idea from Wendy for displaying mine - I hang them from a curtain rod in my family room. Here's a picture from a couple of years ago....

suzannews · 09-28-2009, 10:34 PM

I copied mine from Pat's picture...this is from earlier this year after the Princess 5K medal was added. 3 more medals in the next month!! I, too, want a wall of medals!!

figment82 · 09-29-2009, 12:28 AM

We use ours as lanyards for the rest of our trip (we're obsessive pin traders, and each do one lanyard per trip as our souvenier)...and then when we get home, we have a giant corkboard on our wall that we pin them onto along with something that gives the date of the trip

ultramickeymouse · 09-29-2009, 12:53 AM

I buy these from FMG: 4 of these Goofy's(Perfect 5 in Jan)

And 1 C2C Goofy set:

FireDancer · 09-29-2009, 01:06 AM

As of right now they sit on a shelf. I have a shadow box but not that prerequisite craftiness to mate medals with said box. One of these days, when a crafty person I know needs computer help, I will trade my skills for theirs

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mkymsehi · 09-29-2009, 01:24 AM

Pay an arm and a leg to a vendor, but it looks great!

dsnyfan21 · 09-29-2009, 06:38 AM

I did this with mine from one year...

-Tracy

SAHDad · 09-29-2009, 01:04 PM

Here's what mine currently look like:

The basement is unfinished, but I can see them from the treadmill, which is what counts. I keep meaning to organize my old race bibs (including writing the date, my time, place, etc on the back), but haven't gotten round to it yet.

wdwprncess77 · 09-29-2009, 02:43 PM

These all look great. I love these options. Not sure what I'm going to do with mine yet though. Not so creative myself. And I have very little tradeable skills. Unless someone wants advice on visiting WDW. But I'm sure I'll figure something out.

Keep 'em coming. I love seeing everyone's displays.

K80K · 09-29-2009, 03:09 PM

I will have to post a picture when I get home, but I have all of mine split up into shadow boxes. My stairs work out to be about 3 steps, a landing, 3 more steps and another landing and then steps till they hit the next floor. Since that wall is slanted I have the shadow boxes stepping down as well along the angled wall. I have 6 per box and 4 boxes total right now along with a shadow box of pins, a drawing of Minnie running and a FMG frame for my first full. I am now out of space though so I am getting ready to move onto the other walls in the same stairwell.

K80K · 09-29-2009, 03:16 PM

Here is an early shot - there is now 6 medals per box, but it has the same general layout. The far wall in the picture is where I plan to start putting additional boxes.

monte · 09-30-2009, 10:42 AM

How do you post a photo?

BamaEd1 · 09-30-2009, 03:53 PM

I keep my bibs and photos from my races. As for the medals, I am the regional coordinator for an organization called Medals 4 Mettle. I collect other endurance athletes medals to put with my own and donate them to people fighting serious illnesses. When I start feeling down in the dumps, I remember the joy on the child's face (and the tears in his mom's eyes) when I hung my Mickey Mouse medal around his neck and told him to finish strong.

hungrygreenhippo · 09-30-2009, 07:55 PM

Here's what I do with mine:

I started with just one row, but recently added the second row on the bottom. The medals are held up by clear push pins. It took a looong time for me to measure out and put up all the push pins, but I really like the final result.

Edit: I've been collecting pins from all the Disney and Rock 'n' Roll races that I've done, but haven't figured out yet what do with them. Any ideas?

09-28-2009, 09:31 PM	#1
wdwprncess77 Mouseketeer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: New York, NY Posts: 168	What do you do with your medals? I'm just curious what everyone does with their medals. I just got my first. I hope there will be many more. I'm just wondering what everyone does with them. I kind of just want to carry it around everywhere with me to prove I can put my mind to anything, but I'm not sure wearing that in an executive meeting is so professional. I'd love some ideas. __________________ Jane

09-28-2009, 10:19 PM	#2
WDWFAN9 WISH Biggest Loser/Blue Team Doesn't everybody get new underwear for Christmas?! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SW Chicago suburbs Posts: 1,829	Hi Jane! I understand completely about wanting to carry around your medal! I copied an idea from Wendy for displaying mine - I hang them from a curtain rod in my family room. Here's a picture from a couple of years ago.... __________________ Pat I'm HALF-Crazy: Going half the distance in half the states and having TWICE the fun!! Done - FL, OH, IL, CA, MI, NC, IN, WI, AK, PA, TX, NV, TN, DE, WA, IA, NH, SC 2010 Registered - LA, OK, NY, MN one step at a time

09-28-2009, 10:34 PM	#3
suzannews Bon Jovi rocks! Proud Mom to Lindsey Megan :) Someone stole my Mickey antenna topper!!! Join Date: May 2001 Location: Clermont, FL and lovin' it Posts: 2,992	I copied mine from Pat's picture...this is from earlier this year after the Princess 5K medal was added. 3 more medals in the next month!! I, too, want a wall of medals!! __________________ Suzanne Always be yourself. Because the people who matter, don't mind. And the ones who mind, don't matter.

09-29-2009, 12:53 AM	#5
ultramickeymouse DIS Veteran Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,419	I buy these from FMG: 4 of these Goofy's(Perfect 5 in Jan) And 1 C2C Goofy set: __________________ Robert DisneyRunning.com Perfectly Goofy Goofy #5 in 10

09-29-2009, 01:06 AM	#6
FireDancer "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Suburban Cleveland, OH Posts: 3,658	As of right now they sit on a shelf. I have a shadow box but not that prerequisite craftiness to mate medals with said box. One of these days, when a crafty person I know needs computer help, I will trade my skills for theirs . __________________ - Frank DIS Races: 2006 WDW Half Marathon - 1:42:37 2006 Disneyland Half Marathon - 1:32:04 2008 WDW Half Marathon - 1:34:07 Aiming for the WDW full in 2011

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09-29-2009, 12:28 AM	#4
figment82 Mouseketeer Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 171	We use ours as lanyards for the rest of our trip (we're obsessive pin traders, and each do one lanyard per trip as our souvenier)...and then when we get home, we have a giant corkboard on our wall that we pin them onto along with something that gives the date of the trip

09-29-2009, 01:24 AM	#7
mkymsehi I'd rather be at Disneyland! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Honolulu Posts: 2,298	Pay an arm and a leg to a vendor, but it looks great! __________________ Aloha, Jeff 95, 06, 07, 08, 09 Honolulu Marathon; 06, 07, 08, 09 Disneyland Half Marathon; 08 Goofy Race and a Half Challenge (08, 09 Coast to Coast medal); 09 Dopey Challenge; 10 Dumbo Challenge 09 Honolulu Tinman Triathlon; Inaugural Halloween Triathlon

09-29-2009, 06:38 AM	#8
dsnyfan21 I'd rather be at WDW on Main Street! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Pem. Pines, FL Posts: 2,752	I did this with mine from one year... -Tracy __________________ aka: Racey Tracy/Freckles/Mt. Trashmore Girl *Half Fanatic #299!!!!!* 07,08,09,10WDW Half Marathon 08,09,10Miami ING Half Marathon 08A1A Ft. Lauderdale Half Mararthon 08Last WDW Minnie 15K 09WDW Inaugural Princess Half 08DL Half Marathon 08Coast to Coast Medal 09Last Race for the Taste 10K 09Spacecoast Half Marathon First Visit to Walt Disney World 1972

09-29-2009, 01:04 PM	#9
SAHDad DIS Veteran Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 574	Here's what mine currently look like: The basement is unfinished, but I can see them from the treadmill, which is what counts. I keep meaning to organize my old race bibs (including writing the date, my time, place, etc on the back), but haven't gotten round to it yet. __________________ Current running streak - 526 days in a row. Yearly mileage to date: 114.94. Last update: 1/27/10.

09-29-2009, 02:43 PM	#10
wdwprncess77 Mouseketeer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: New York, NY Posts: 168	These all look great. I love these options. Not sure what I'm going to do with mine yet though. Not so creative myself. And I have very little tradeable skills. Unless someone wants advice on visiting WDW. But I'm sure I'll figure something out. Keep 'em coming. I love seeing everyone's displays. __________________ Jane

09-29-2009, 03:09 PM	#11
K80K Going Goofy 2010 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Baltimore Posts: 261	I will have to post a picture when I get home, but I have all of mine split up into shadow boxes. My stairs work out to be about 3 steps, a landing, 3 more steps and another landing and then steps till they hit the next floor. Since that wall is slanted I have the shadow boxes stepping down as well along the angled wall. I have 6 per box and 4 boxes total right now along with a shadow box of pins, a drawing of Minnie running and a FMG frame for my first full. I am now out of space though so I am getting ready to move onto the other walls in the same stairwell. __________________ ~Katie~ 06: WDW 5K, Minnie 1Mi+15K, Balto 1/2 07: WDW 5K+1/2, Dland 5K+1/2, ToT 08: WDW 5K+Full, B&A 1/2, Minnie 5K+15K, Dland 1/2, Balto 1/2, ToT 09: WDW 5K+1/2, Princess 5K+1/2, AOR, MD 1/2, VB RnR 1/2, PDR 1/2, RFTT, MCM 10: WDW Goofy, RnR Mardi Gras 1/2, Princess 1/2, Frederick 1/2, Dland 1/2, Balto 1/2

09-29-2009, 03:16 PM	#12
K80K Going Goofy 2010 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Baltimore Posts: 261	Here is an early shot - there is now 6 medals per box, but it has the same general layout. The far wall in the picture is where I plan to start putting additional boxes. __________________ ~Katie~ 06: WDW 5K, Minnie 1Mi+15K, Balto 1/2 07: WDW 5K+1/2, Dland 5K+1/2, ToT 08: WDW 5K+Full, B&A 1/2, Minnie 5K+15K, Dland 1/2, Balto 1/2, ToT 09: WDW 5K+1/2, Princess 5K+1/2, AOR, MD 1/2, VB RnR 1/2, PDR 1/2, RFTT, MCM 10: WDW Goofy, RnR Mardi Gras 1/2, Princess 1/2, Frederick 1/2, Dland 1/2, Balto 1/2

09-30-2009, 10:42 AM	#13
monte Disney2011 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Copper Mountain, Colorado Posts: 1,550	How do you post a photo? __________________

09-30-2009, 03:53 PM	#14
BamaEd1 Mouseketeer Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 318	I keep my bibs and photos from my races. As for the medals, I am the regional coordinator for an organization called Medals 4 Mettle. I collect other endurance athletes medals to put with my own and donate them to people fighting serious illnesses. When I start feeling down in the dumps, I remember the joy on the child's face (and the tears in his mom's eyes) when I hung my Mickey Mouse medal around his neck and told him to finish strong. __________________ Ed H, Montgomery, AL

09-30-2009, 07:55 PM	#15
hungrygreenhippo Mouseketeer Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 313	Here's what I do with mine: I started with just one row, but recently added the second row on the bottom. The medals are held up by clear push pins. It took a looong time for me to measure out and put up all the push pins, but I really like the final result. Edit: I've been collecting pins from all the Disney and Rock 'n' Roll races that I've done, but haven't figured out yet what do with them. Any ideas? Last edited by hungrygreenhippo; 09-30-2009 at 08:06 PM.

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