Carrying pins for trading....

[CapnJacksGirl]

My DS7 and DS5 tried their hands at pin trading on our last trip and had a ball. We started them out with a very few pins, just what would fit on a lanyard, but they have since added pins to their collections and will undoubtedly want to have more than just a lanyard-ful with them on the next trip.

Is there an option for displaying and carrying pins that allows for more than a lanyard would but is less than a pin bag or binder that they would have to carry around? I thought I remembered seeing something that attached to a lanyard that would display more but can't seem to find it. Maybe I dreamed that part up!

Any help is appreciated......before I start trying to make something on my own that is!

 

[figment_jii]

Is there an option for displaying and carrying pins that allows for more than a lanyard would but is less than a pin bag or binder that they would have to carry around?

They sell hip lanyards (they clip onto a person's belt), but I think you could also clip them onto the ring at the bottom of the pin lanyard. This would give you a little more space. I've also seen people wearing multiple lanyards.

 

[dominiondad]

Just a thought - my kids each have two lanyards. One is for pins they intend to keep. Those pins have the locking backs and stay in the room. They then put their "traders" on the second lanyard which they take into the park. The traders have the regular backs so they're easy to remove. As a result, we have fewe pins to lug around the park and minimize the chance to lose one.

 

[erincon23]

You could always put extra traders in a ziploc bag in whatever park bag you (or the girls) are carrying, and keep another ziploc to put pins they've received in trades and don't want to re-trade. Not all pins you bring with have to be displayed. There's always a chance that lanyards can be lost, pins can come off, etc. I pin-trade, and always bring more than I put on one lanyard at a time (so I can replenish my lanyard with traders if I trade more than 12 - which is how many I put on my lanyard to start with), but I keep them in my bag.

 

[USS Disney]

They also sell the "wide" lanyards that are the same length as the others but 2.5 times wider. I can typically fit an extra 8 -14 pins on it depending on pin size.

 

[2BoyMommy]

I'm new to pin trading and have been giving this a lot of thought lately. My family will be going in August and the thought of heavy lanyards around our sweaty necks isn't appealing

I though I would go to a fabric store and buy some really duarable fabric. then I could cut it into a square and put the pins on. My hubbie and I use fanny packs and I thought I could just roll up the fabric with the pins on it and carry it in the fanny pack (and, of course, carry the ones for my boys too!).

Anyone do something like that?

 

[NHDisneyFan]

I'm new to pin trading and have been giving this a lot of thought lately. My family will be going in August and the thought of heavy lanyards around our sweaty necks isn't appealing

I though I would go to a fabric store and buy some really duarable fabric. then I could cut it into a square and put the pins on. My hubbie and I use fanny packs and I thought I could just roll up the fabric with the pins on it and carry it in the fanny pack (and, of course, carry the ones for my boys too!).

Anyone do something like that?

Yes, I built a small book with pages made of a hard felt. Each family member had a page. We only brought into the park pins that would be traded that day. Worked out great.

 

[katt789]

The way I do it is split up the pins; keep the ones that I have traded for and want to keep for sure, back in the room, so I don't loose them. Then I put a bunch on my lanyard each day for trading purposes!

I'm planning on picking up a little corkboard to display them at home so they're not just sitting in a bag anymore haha!

It's definitely a good idea to keep them separate, so that in the heat of the moment you don't accidentally trade on you wanted to keep, or have it get lost in the parks!

 

[shell8558]

We carry the pins that we want to trade in a small ziplock bag . Makes it so easy to reach in and grab a pin to trade!

 

[dpuck1998]

My 8 yo carrys this "pouch", very easy to carry and holds a lot of pins.

 

[ktlm]

Our absolute keepers from past trips stay at home so there is no chance of losing them. We recently did a corkboard and DD's (7) pins are on display in her room, other than any duplicates and absolute non-keepers. Whatever she decides she might be willing to trade from her board, we will take off the board and take with us.

She wears her lanyard in the parks (well technically DH and I seem to wind up wearing it quite a bit), and whatever doesn't fit on the lanyard or goes beyond the point that she deems the lanyard too heavy go in a baggie in my purse. Each night we remove the absolutely must keep collected pins from the lanyard and they stay in the room so there is no chance we will lose them in the parks.

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

My 8 yo carrys this "pouch", very easy to carry and holds a lot of pins.

We have the same small bag.. Only princess!
Works perfectly.. Holds lots of pins!

 

[skullsplitter]

We each have extra traders on our lanyards for the kids to use if they run out of pins they want to trade. Of course that won't work if you and your husband also are traders.

 

[elaine amj]

I'm new to pin trading and have been giving this a lot of thought lately. My family will be going in August and the thought of heavy lanyards around our sweaty necks isn't appealing

I though I would go to a fabric store and buy some really duarable fabric. then I could cut it into a square and put the pins on. My hubbie and I use fanny packs and I thought I could just roll up the fabric with the pins on it and carry it in the fanny pack (and, of course, carry the ones for my boys too!).

Anyone do something like that?

Sounds like a good idea. I did something like that for my DD last year. Unfortunately, the fabric we pinned it on was too thick and we lost a few pins. (even though I switched the Mickey backs to the claw pinbacks). Thin material worked better. We just did the lanyard thing this time. It's heavy though - so we didn't bring it with us all the time. I think I will have to create an extra long lanyard so my DD can wear it crossbody (my DS is small enough to do that and the weight is comfortable for him).

 

[Maleficent Dragon]

We keep ours in our backpack/bag. The ones we keep go in one place and the ones we are trading in another place. So far, we have never mixed them up.

 

[PrincessTori96]

Usually my little sister and I take a little change purse filled with 10 to 15 trading pins and trade that way. It it's usually more than enough pins to trade, and we've found we don't lose half as many pins as we used to with our lanyards!

 

[kensethfan]

We have to watch out for those keeper pins--both our DSs (11 & 13) have "show-off" lanyards they wear around the park, and I'm constantly worried they'll lose their favorites. Especially the 13yo--he mostly gets the pin-on-pin, dangly, heavy ones--which is why he wants to show them off, of course. I have a DVD carrying case full of pages that I'm planning to use for the keepers myself this time, and put mostly traders on my lanyard, with just a few nice ones keyed to the day (Star Wars at HS for SWW, for instance). We have plenty of extra pages, and I can add/remove them as needed.

For trading, we usually use cards from the trade-fodder type sets of 7 to hold as many as 12-15 each. I generally have a backpack with water, sunscreen, etc., in it, so the size and shape don't cramp my style. And even when I go on a ride serious enough for my non-riding DW to hold the backpack while the boys and I are on it (RNRC, EE, Space Mtn, etc.), I keep one or two in the pouch of a passholder/neck wallet I picked up at a trade show. It's small enough for me wrap the band thoroughly around my wrist and hand as I hold it, or tuck safely in my back pocket as I ride.

 

[G719]

We are just starting into pin trading. I used regular felt and sewed 2 pieces together because I couldn't find the stiff felt. I stuck my pins to the felt and put them inside this quart bag from REI. I figure we will stash it in a bag or we could put it on a lanyard and carry it. Here is the bag:

http://www.rei.com/product/837264/rei-3-1-1-air-travel-liquids-bag

 

[USS Disney]

I am not nearly artsy enough for any of that... Simple "man" solution... bigger is better. The wide lanyard works wonderfully for us. If you are concerned about sweaty necks or the lanyard being too heavy on your neck, wear a polo shirt. (My DW just makes me carry hers if its "hurting" or sweaty since I am typically wearing a polo)

For you crafty people, by all means, please enjoy your castle shaped pin books with pop-up tinker bells with secret compartments and hidden mickey designs.