Too many pins for a lanyard - ideas?

[BuckeyeMark]

I am a Tigger collector and my pin trading lanyard is covered in Tigger pins. Several trips to DW have been very good to me and I'm loaded with Tiggers.

But now what? Don't have room hardly for any "trade-able" pins and, honestly, the lanyard is HEAVY.

I need some ideas on how to display all my Tigger pins without having them drag me down with a heavy lanyard. How do you do your pins?

 

[SabbyR]

Get a park bag with a flap on it and pin them to the front of the flap

 

[KimBean]

This isn't to bring in the park but for my older DD I made her a keeper board. I got a square picture frame at Ikea kind of deep. I took the back of the frame and glued cork board to it. Then wrapped a nice piece of fabric around it. Stuck all her pins on that and they look so cool behind glass in her room.

I like it because they are safe, she sees them everyday, but if she ever changes her mind on her keepers I can just take them out of the cork.

 

[Uno Mas]

You could wear two lanyards - one for "keepers" one for "traders" - but that gets annoying around your neck after a while. Maybe wear a hat with your favorite keepers. Or carry a small trading bag for your trading pins. We've done all of the above!

 

[Meriweather]

I don't wear any pins in the parks..........have lost too many.
I carry a lanyard with 10 pins to trade into the parks and have a small bag with 40 more at the resort and reload as needed.

At home I keep them in pin bags and binders with pins sheets in them (over 1500 of them...pins that is)

 

[matheke]

I would get your keeper pins off the lanyard and either put them in a book (They sell them at the parks) of use a corkboard (I have my Olympic pins on 1).

With them on the lanyard you have more chance of losing a pin or scratching the paint or bending them.

 

[ktlm]

I have a fancy framed corkboard (you can find them at Hobby Lobby and some home decor stores) that is hanging on our bedroom wall with a pin display. I love having that little piece of Disney hanging on the wall to look at every day and that they aren't just tucked away in a drawer or on a shelf. DD, 8, has a cheap corkboard hanging in her room that we did all the edges with glitter tape to display her keeper collection.

 

[larryz]

Hat.

 

[njpyro]

I have a little pouch with two zipper sections. One for traders and one for keeping. I've lost (and found) enough pins to be afraid of using a lanyard. I also don't like the weight around my neck.

 

[owensamo]

My DD usually only takes her traders with her - we've lost some pins she wanted (not just at Disney) so we're pretty careful about what we carry around.

My DD is a competitive dancer, and I made a display board for her pins out of an inexpensive canvas I purchased at one of our local craft stores. I painted it with acrylic paint to match her practice room, then she pinned her pins to it. I added cup hooks to the bottom for her ribbons - it works great!

She loves it so much she's requested a bigger one for her bedroom for all of the pins she's acquired on vacations. We purchase a pin for her from wherever we go (not just Disney) so she has a lot of pins! I'll add hooks to this one as well for her to hang her keychains from (which she gets whenever we can't find a pin). I just haven't quite figured out what to paint on the canvas yet...

The only downside to this kind of display is you can't really move the pins around - once they puncture the painted canvas, they leave a hole. So you have to be careful when placing them.

 

[dnsmills]

In regards to everyone saying they don't wear 'good' pins to the park because of the fear of losing them, you can buy locking backs off eBay for cheap. I agree those black Mickey backs are crud and don't work so invested a few bucks for some good backs.

 

[BuckeyeMark]

These are really good ideas! I'm going to take some traders, maybe put a few Tigger pins on a hat (with locking backs) and leave the rest of my collection at home. It does get some attention - CMs will really ooh and ah because I have a lot of Tiggers - but it's heavy and kinda hot to wear. Tigger needs to stay home this year. I LOVE the idea of a corkboard. Then I can look at my pins all year and not just at Disney on a lanyard.

Thanks everyone - and if you've got more ideas keep them coming!

 

[jo-jo]

I'm not suggesting you do this, but once I saw a person with a zillion pins at the park. She had a vest covered with pins front and back. Also about 4 lanyards covered and draped across her chest just so, so the ribbons didn't overlap. I wonder how much all those pins weighed? And cost?

 

[kbelle8995]

Carry the ones that you want to trade. You can get a small bag to carry if you want to do that instead of lanyards.

I don't trade very much. I framed my 40th anniversary WDW pins in a shallow shadow box. It's worked well. I have plans to frame more of them at a later point.

 

[PinkBudgie]

I have some of mine on black cross stitch material on the wall. I have 3 "displays". One is stretched inside an embroidery hoop and the other two are folded over at the top with a dowel going through.
I never wear mine at the park. I'm a preschool teacher and I need to wear a lanyard to school with my keys and whistle on it anyway. So I have a Disneyland lanyard (of course) and I wear pins that match the letter we are learning that week. I change them each week. I bought some very good backs on ebay after trying the Disney locking backs (which are terrible and ruined the backs of some of the pins). The backs I have now don't come loose and you don't need a tool to take them off.