What to do with ticket stubs, etc

[TheWatcher]

What do other people do with the various items associated with concert going? For instance: ticket stubs, wrist bands, set lists, picks, drumsticks, flyers, confetti, and other assorted debris. Right now, I have shoeboxes full of random things. Any ideas on what I should do with it?

[cansei de ser sexme]

i do the same thing in the top shelf of my closet.

[marooko]

leave them there and look at them every once in a while and get excited about the shows you saw and the upcoming shows.

[full on idle]

I have a lot of old ticket stubs in a box. For this year I started taping them to line the insides of my kitchen cabinets but then I got lazy and started putting them in my wallet to tape up later and then I lost my wallet. But I'm discouraged about collecting ticket stubs anymore anyways because whenever you buy tickets for will call through non-ticketmaster places (which I do as often as I can) they just give you a little raffle ticket or just check your name off so you don't get a stub AT ALL. I put the free Fillmore posters on the inside of my kitchen cabinets also. I don't really collect flyers or wristbands.

[Deviate_420]

What do other people do with the various items associated with concert going? For instance: ticket stubs, wrist bands, set lists, picks, drumsticks, flyers, confetti, and other assorted debris. Right now, I have shoeboxes full of random things. Any ideas on what I should do with it?

You should light them on fire.....

[TheWatcher]

You should light them on fire.....


No longer a pyromaniac. Sorry.

[Mr.Nipples]

hey ron, show them what you got...

[bmack86]

I put them on my wall with setlists, photos and autographs

[kingsblend420]

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f209/carbine000/IMG_4995-1.jpg

[vinylmartyr]

Saget

[wmgaretjax]

recycle them.

[tessalasset]

I keep the stubs in an envelope and if I don't get a ticket for the show (which is most of the time now), I make sure to get a drinking wristband and then I write all the show details on the wristband at the end of the night, including who I went to the show with. Then I keep all the wristbands in a separate plastic bag. And I keep lanyards/passes in another baggie. Set lists I usually deface and write the band/venue/date on it, unless I get a band member to sign it and that way I'll remember. Drumsticks, I try to get the drummer to sign it. Right now I have drumsticks from the Frames, LCD Soundsystem, and Lucinda Williams up on my shelf and it took me about a month to remember one of them was from the Frames. I'm thinking I'll put a piece of masking tape around every handle and write what band it was from. I used to keep the flyers but not anymore. I still have a few pieces of confetti from the Lips' NYE show last year but for the most part I don't keep that shit either. Show posters I'll just stick up on my walls unless it's a special one to me and I'll get it framed. I'm running out of wall space, tho.

[Hannahrain]

I have a huge cabinet. I file the whole shebang under M for memorabilia, then under subfolder S for stubs, D for drumsticks, P for posters. Then, there's a folder divider where I catalogue all the various items by year, alphabetically sorted within the month, so it's year->month->band. Then, I stick the entire cabinet in a bigger cabinet under C for cabinet.

[full on idle]

You have the filing instincts of a SAVVY businesswoman.

[Hannahrain]

File me under S for savvy and then in subfolder B.

[JustSteve]

i put a lot of my favorite concert memorabilia up on my music wall. i had the good fortune to work in the biz for many years for some pretty big names and have some cool pictures/posters/etc. framed. i, like tessalasset, have an envelope filled with old wristbands/laminates going pretty much back to the mid 90's when i started working for a local promoter. i am still fortunate to have those connections and am still adding to my collection every year. i always wrote the date of the show and lineup on the backs of them and pull them out every once in awhile to remember the good times. my favorite items, of course, are my coachella wristbands. i have been on the lookout for a cool mannequin style hand and forearm to place them on and then mount on my wall. for now they are hanging off of a frame holding a picture of me and my friend/former boss in the biz.

[full on idle]

File me under S for savvy and then in subfolder B.

done and done.

[kreutz2112]

I have a huge cabinet. I file the whole shebang under M for memorabilia, then under subfolder S for stubs, D for drumsticks, P for posters. Then, there's a folder divider where I catalogue all the various items by year, alphabetically sorted within the month, so it's year->month->band. Then, I stick the entire cabinet in a bigger cabinet under C for cabinet.

heart.

I have all my ticket stubs in this beer stein I got when I was 16. One day I am going to chronologically organize them and frame them.

[shotglass75]

usually they are in a little toy safe that I got when I was a kid in chronological order. You can't really tell that there are over 300 tickets in that pile.


http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d199/stevemavi/tickets.jpg

[bballarl]

All of mine are in chronological order in a shoebox. For shows that I just get a stub or a wristband or whatever, I will tape the stub or wristband to a piece of white paper and write show details on it in permanent marker.

[Hannahrain]

usually they are in a little toy safe that I got when I was a kid in chronological order. You can't really tell that there are over 300 tickets in that pile.


http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d199/stevemavi/tickets.jpg

That is not what chronological order looks like.

[shotglass75]

That is not what chronological order looks like.

I am aware, that is why I wrote, "usually they are in a little toy safe that I got when I was a kid in chronological order". Obviously for the picture, they are not in the safe. it's quite simple to figure out

[full on idle]

All of mine are in chronological order in a shoebox. For shows that I just get a stub or a wristband or whatever, I will tape the stub or wristband to a piece of white paper and write show details on it in permanent marker.

but this is.

[full on idle]

I want Andrew to catalogue my mp3s.

[Deviate_420]

Are you guys for serious? I just throw mine in a box. The fact that the date is on it is, at least for me, an indicator of the general time frame that an event would occur on....

[shotglass75]

I'm for serious. Anybody else for serious over here?

[Hannahrain]

I am aware, that is why I wrote, "usually they are in a little toy safe that I got when I was a kid in chronological order". Obviously for the picture, they are not in the safe. it's quite simple to figure out

Check the file. It was under S for sarcasm.




Before when I said I filed my ticket stubs I meant that I lost them.

[shotglass75]

The internet can be tricky that way. You never know who is an idiot or just an asshole:)

[bballarl]

Are you guys for serious? I just throw mine in a box. The fact that the date is on it is, at least for me, an indicator of the general time frame that an event would occur on....

The point some people were making is that not all shows are an official ticket or whatever. Sometimes its just one of those little raffle tickets. Or you get a comp'd ticket. Or just a wristband. Etc.

[goodgrl]

I have them in a couple of boxes around the house. Hubby and I also have our t-shirts safely put away. For our kids to wear to school one day.

[TheWatcher]

All of mine are in chronological order in a shoebox. For shows that I just get a stub or a wristband or whatever, I will tape the stub or wristband to a piece of white paper and write show details on it in permanent marker.

That's a good idea. I'm usually so tired when I get home that I just throw everything in a box and go to sleep.

[kitt kat]

let's see...

assorted tickets are up on bulliten boards both in LA and in my parent's house (shows from high school/summer).

set lists are on my wall.

i have a flower from the bright eyes show at the walt disney hall in a vase at my parent's house. i also have a piece of nate walcott's trumpet from that show turned into a necklace. it's pretty cool looking.

[woogie846]

I have all of my ticket stubs stuffed into an old diced tomato bucket.

[tessalasset]

Hubby and I also have our t-shirts safely put away. For our kids to wear to school one day.That's awesome. I wish my parents did that.

[suprefan]

Tickets for each year are put into an envelope and just stored.(this year is still in my wallet and wont be emptied until Jan 1st) Various things like setlists(a s**tload of those I have) and wristbands are in a few shoeboxes. Drum sticks and other things are in other places. Chris Martins guitar is under my bed.

[comiddle]

I throw mine in the bin on the way out the door. I have enough clutter in my life, nevermind ticket stubs.

I find the odd one used as bookmarks still. It's a good indication of when I last picked up that book. I throw those out when I finish the book.

[Courtney]

I lose them.

[mountmccabe]

I keep mine but I have no thorough storage method. There are a few distinct piles. I (not so) recently found a Ticketmaster envelope with about 25 ticket stubs from the mid 90s. It was awesome.

I find the odd one used as bookmarks still. It's a good indication of when I last picked up that book. I throw those out when I finish the book.

When I start a new book I will use the most recent stub from a show - or, failing that, stub from a play or movie - for the specific purpose of knowing when I started. Also because as I read I can remember, oooh, that show was good.

Setlists generally find their way to a separate storage bin though a few have gotten left with the record I bought at the show or something.

I also tend to keep the lottery ticket type things but don't label them or anything. I mean, they say "Keep This Ticket." I do as I am told.

[Tylerdurden31]

i have this box someone gave me for a secret santa on an old board. the thing was covered in Hail To the Thief stickers and when I got it had a bunch of radiohead bootlegs and stickers and what not. Tickets go in there. Some of them are definitely fading though

[Yablonowitz]

I use them as the outer layer of paper mache elk and moose heads that I mount on the wall.

[J~$$$]

pics?

[Yablonowitz]

pics?

They're NSFI.

[SFChrissy]

Mine are in a treasure box and I'm lookng for the perfect tall wide blown glass vase to put them in so it it mimicks an everchanging sculpture

[shakermaker113]

I have all my tickets in an envelope. they were chronological until I dropped the thing and they fell out of order.

I've been thinking about getting some kind of photo album/scrap book to put them in, along with some notes about the show -- anything ranging from brief memories to setlists to full blown reviews. it'd be a pretty cool concert diary.

[mountmccabe]

They're NSFI.

Not Safe For Internet?

Not Safe For Indie? Like you've seen some awful embarassing bands and don't think you can handle everyone making fun of you?

[BROKENDOLL]

I refinished the top of my bar where the ticket stubs are under clear glass for viewing. I always get t-shirts at concerts, but don't wear them so I've reconstructed them into pillows for my couch.

[amyzzz]

My 90's stubs are rubberbanded in chronological order in this weird little wicker box. My 00's stubs are randomly all over the place, some in my wallet, some who knows where.

[fatbastard]

My ticket stubs are stored in a plastic bag inside of my old school lunch pail. They are not in order.

[meyouseek]

The old 90's stubs are in a photo album somewhere. My more recent ones are collected in little stashes in random drawers and boxes.

I've been collecting t-shirts which I eventually plan to put on a wall behind plastic or something... as soon as I've got a spare room. Yeah, it'll probably look like an outdated Hot Topic.

Love Brokendoll's bar idea.

[BROKENDOLL]

Thanks. The only thing is...I need a larger bar now. The pillows make a real comfy couch accessory though. Hot Topic? Hmm, I'd say that's my decorating theme for the home. (Forget all tha southwest and french provincial shit!)

[amyzzz]

So you make the pillows, or just use the T-shirts as pillowcases over existing pillows?

[Yablonowitz]

Not Safe For Internet?

Not Safe For Indie? Like you've seen some awful embarassing bands and don't think you can handle everyone making fun of you?

Right, my Ween ticket, for example.

[BROKENDOLL]

So you make the pillows, or just use the T-shirts as pillowcases over existing pillows?
Both. I had afew pillows that just didn't fit into my scheme of things so I covered them. I still had T-shirts left so off came the arm parts and the neck part, and with some pillow stuffing, I then sewed them using the front and backs of shirts for the front and back of pillow.I figured this way, I get to relive those concerts more than I would if I left the shirts as they were. (I always end up with huge sized concert shirts and I was tired of sleeping in them.

[canexplain]

what i want tygerlady to do with my concert t's is cut out the back, leaving the front in tack ... then sew the front and the back on a homemade quilt or maybe just a cool blanket .. i guess you would get about three t's front and back on a blanket ... you could also use hoodies for a heavier comfoter sp like thing ... i think that might be cool ... i guess i have a few hundred t's some totally trashy or lame, but a bunch of cool ones ... canx**