Where do you keep your college degrees?

[topolino]

I mean the actual diplomas. Are they in storage? Do you have them framed and hung on the wall? If so, where? At home? At your workplace?

I have my Bachelor's and Master's framed and hung in my living room, and the other day a good friend of mine half-kiddingly told me it's tacky to do so, unless you're a medical doctor or lawyer and they are hung at your practice.

How do you store yours?

 

[EMAW_KSU]

In the filing cabinet.

 

[mom2rtk]

In the same padded envelope it arrived in many years ago. I really should frame that.

 

[Meriweather]

Mine and DH's are somewhere in storage.
DS and DD's are framed and hanging in offices at home.
The local Hallmark, at that time, had drawings of their schools with a place for diplomas, so I got those for them. They are very nice.

 

[Kogo Shuko]

My mother had it framed when I graduated.

I had it up on the wall when I lived by myself in a two bedroom apartment (I needed SOMETHING to put on all those walls!!), but now it's hiding in the basement. There's barely enough room to add my own pictures and art now that I live with someone else, let alone my diploma!

 

[kamik86]

Lol my bachelors is in a nice folder in storage somewhere where it got stuck when we moved (before that it was sitting in a book shelf, not on display just closed and sitting there. My masters is in that folder too, because then it wouldn't get bent.

I see no reason to frame either one.

My 8th grade 'graduation' certificate however is on display at my parents house as well as a bunch of awards I got in 8th grade and high school. They insisted on displaying them (I didn't see why they wanted to) and they are still up. I moved up from 8th grade 15 years ago!! I really wish they would take them down.

Honestly my parents were always much more into displaying things then I was. They also liked to tell everyone I made honor roll and put up the article from the paper when I made valedictorian (I was working at a camp that summer and the camp also put it up at work)... everyone else was way more impressed then I was.

I rather not call attention to that stuff. The things I want to display in my home are memories from my wedding, things that show our interests like my collection of batman family statues. The star wars Mickey and Bell's cottage prints that hang in my living room. That sort of thing.

 

[MrsDuck]

Both of our degrees are in the closet.

DH wants to laminate his and use it as a placemat...

 

[JanaDee]

Mine and DH's are both framed and hanging on the wall in our bedroom. His MS will probably go on the wall, too.

 

[NewRVLady]

I dont think hanging in Living room is a thing people do
Your office at work is probably the only place it makes sense to display
(I still have my kids College diplomas-in the huge envelope they came in)

 

[mom2rtk]

My 8th grade 'graduation' certificate however is on display at my parents house as well as a bunch of awards I got in 8th grade and high school. They insisted on displaying them (I didn't see why they wanted to) and they are still up. I moved up from 8th grade 15 years ago!! I really wish they would take them down.

What does it hurt? I think it's sweet.

Both of our degrees are in the closet.

DH wants to laminate his and use it as a placemat...

 

[havaneselover]

I went to the University of Virginia which must have the world's largest diplomas. Mine is framed but not hung in my master closet. I don't have an office in my current house so there's no where that makes sense to me to hang it

 

[soccerdad72]

I think they're in a filing cabinet somewhere, but I haven't looked for them in a while.

 

[JanaDee]

I dont think hanging in Living room is a thing people do
Your office at work is probably the only place it makes sense to display
(I still have my kids College diplomas-in the huge envelope they came in)

If the OP wants to hang it in his living room, who cares? It is his house.

 

[topolino]

I dont think hanging in Living room is a thing people do
Your office at work is probably the only place it makes sense to display
(I still have my kids College diplomas-in the huge envelope they came in)

I do it and I'm a person.

Hanging it at work to me is a worse idea, because I think then it might look like an attempt at one-upmanship.

 

[mom2rtk]

I do think displaying them in your home is a nice visual reminder to your kids that you value your education. I guess I should get on that. At least I know where mine is now. I had to copy it for an employer back in the day and I remember digging through the attic to find it.

 

[richmo]

Mine is probably in a box in the basement somewhere.

I have to agree with an earlier poster that if I were to have a degree framed and displayed, I would only consider a room that is a home office to be appropriate. It does seem a bit odd to have them hanging in the living room, but that's your decision...

 

[smiths02]

I got mine framed as graduation presents (I have BA, MEd, EdS). When we lived in our other house, we had only three bedroom and one child, so the extra bedroom was an office. All our awards and diplomas were there. DH even put my high school stuff out, which felt silly to me. Then DH had an office at work and took all his stuff there. It made me feel tacky that the office was an homage to me. So when I got my job where I have a cube (I work in the schools, but I am in a district where I am technically office based now), I took my diplomas to my cube. I don't think it is tacky because everyone I work with has an EdS degree equivalent or greater, so it is more of something to decorate the cinder block walls (the frames are nice), and maybe start a conversation about my school.

I do personally think they should only be hung in an office (home office or work), but I don't think you have to be a lawyer or medical doctor.

However, a BA/BS is a big accomplishment, and I can totally see displaying it when you are 23. When you are in your 30s, in a nice home that you have decorated, I can't imagine that a bunch of diplomas would go well with the decor.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I do think displaying them in your home is a nice visual reminder to your kids that you value your education.

I agree, which is why, after almost thirty and twenty years, respectively, of ours sitting in our nightstand drawer, I decided to frame them and hang them in our home office just recently. I'd planned to give DH his as a Christmas present, but unfortunately, I forgot the bag when I was wrapping gifts so now it's still sitting there in my bedroom undone. (I'll get to it eventually. Maybe today!)

 

[Happy Snowman]

Ours came in "nice" folder things. They are in a box in the basement somewhere. We used to have them on a a display shelf for a couple years after we graduated...since then, not really something we need out.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I enjoy seeing professionals' degrees on their walls.