Saving Movie Tickets?

[k4ng]

Do you guys save your movie ticket stubs? Where do you store them? How do you keep them organized?

I have a bunch of movie ticket stubs sitting around in various shoeboxes/cigar boxes and it occurred to me that it might be nice to put them in chronological order and display/preserve them somehow. I thought about gluing them down and putting them in a big frame or decoupaging them to a bookshelf that will hold all my DVDs but I think just putting them in a scrapbook/album is the best way to go.

Googling around, it seems like the ink on these movie tickets fade after a few years though. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to keep the tickets from fading? I know absolutely nothing about scrapbooking and google just turns up all these flowery articles about how to ~develop your scrapbooking voice, etc.

[damnedeyez]

No...but then I wasn't a big movie-goer and won't go to a theatre anymore. I do see the draw in saving the ticket as memorabilia (much like saving programs and sports tickets, etc). I think I'd probably use one of those photo albums with the sticky cellophane, but I couldn't say if it would damage anything. One thing I have done with 'collections' and such, though, is document it with pictures...in case something happened.

[trunolimit]

Isn't that what AMC stubs was supposed to be? An online collection of all your movie stubs? There are other perks also butni don't go to the movies enough to warrant the cost.

[rokov]

I used to keep all of my ticket stubs, but I haven't seen a movie in a theater in years (I think Cloverfield was the last one). I kept them in an Altoids tin without any particular organization.

[heyseuss]

Originally Posted by k4ng

Do you guys save your movie ticket stubs? Where do you store them? How do you keep them organized?

I have a bunch of movie ticket stubs sitting around in various shoeboxes/cigar boxes

Crazy coincidence, I collect shoeboxes and cigarboxes, but don't know what to put them in.

I thought about gluing them down and putting them in a big frame or decoupaging

New word. Holy hell Kang, that's rare for me, thankyou for that.

But seriously, I'd suggest getting one of those binder book thingys with the pages of see-through lil envelope sleeve things. I see alot of ppl in my circles that collect guitar picks and these work well for them size-wize, and double-sided. Also, you don't stick them in any way, they just slip in and out. I've seen ink fade on my stubs, but it took 20 years, I'd recommend keeping them out of the sun.

I collect movie/concert tickets, cigar boxes, remote controls, hotel keys and assorted hotel-branded items, matches, coffee cans, coffee makers ( well, not really, I have 5, and I'm going to turn them into light fixtures), bottle caps and cig packs.

[tsmith15]

I have kept every single ticket stub from every concert, museum, movie, sports event I've attended in at least the last 5 years, and like you, they're just sitting around in boxes. My plan has been to buy some of those plastic sheets that go into binders with the 9 pockets on them designed to store playing cards (e.g. magic, yu-gi-oh, whatever), and use each slot as one month. That way I won't have more than 10-12 tickets per slot. If I put one ticket in each slot I'd have a giant binder full of plastic sheets and it would cost way too much. I also think it would be cool to lay them all down on a big board and get that laminated or framed and put it up on the wall, but that would take way too much work.

EDIT: I have at least 400 movie ticket stubs, it takes up quite a bit of space lol.

[k4ng]

Originally Posted by heyseuss

I collect movie/concert tickets, cigar boxes, remote controls, hotel keys and assorted hotel-branded items, matches, coffee cans, coffee makers ( well, not really, I have 5, and I'm going to turn them into light fixtures), bottle caps and cig packs.

whoa whoa whoa how are you going to turn coffee makers into light fixtures? will you take pictures when you do it and post them? im so curious it sounds so badass!!


i like the ideas about getting one of those pokemon card holder plastic sleeves and organizing them chronologically! i'll probably end up doing something like that. i thought about using those sticky photo albums but i was afraid the glue would eat all the ink off the stubs.

[damnedeyez]

Originally Posted by k4ng

i thought about using those sticky photo albums but i was afraid the glue would eat all the ink off the stubs.

...it's been a long time since I've used them, but it never seemed to be an issue so long as they were left alone...but perhaps something requiring more of a permanence like that isn't a good idea.

[heyseuss]

Originally Posted by k4ng

whoa whoa whoa how are you going to turn coffee makers into light fixtures? will you take pictures when you do it and post them? im so curious it sounds so badass!!

Where the coffee gets dripped into will house the electrics and the empty space above the burner where the pot would go will be the bulb. I don't see anything about them that will make their luminance special, but they'll make for interesting wall sconces. I will post pics one day.

I have weird 'design' taste. I used to have giant old oven in my living room. Open the door and the tv was in it, open the top grill part and the VCR was in there.

i like the ideas about getting one of those pokemon card holder plastic sleeves and organizing them chronologically! i'll probably end up doing something like that. i thought about using those sticky photo albums but i was afraid the glue would eat all the ink off the stubs.

Yeah, I wouldn't go with any glues or permanence.


Good to see you here again K4ng.