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Silly Ski Decor question

Tvan

Tvan

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You may remember that we keep our trail maps, mark the runs we’ve made and hang them in our exercise space as incentive.

Does anyone keep their old ski passes from year to year? Does anyone have a good way to display them? We have quite a collection, and I hate to just toss ‘em.
 
The old photo passes may soon be a collector's item. I've like five RFID cards now that just have my name and no picture, and these are all used for many seasons. I can purchase a day pass or season pass and it's all the same card.

Some of the small local hills in Maine still use the little wire loop and sticker that goes on your jacket zip that changes each time you go. I wonder if they still use the photo card if you get a season pass?
 
I have also been collecting old ski passes wondering if I could do something creative with them. I do remember that old Amex commercial that had Martha Stewart creating a mosaic (on a pool floor?) with cut up pieces of credit cards, but unfortunately I’m not that crafty!
 
Most of the resort-specific ones I save from year to year because they’re reusable. If the resort replaces them or it’s a place I’m not likely to go again soon, I’ll set them on a bookshelf for display. I do this for some of the old school ticket passes too.
 
I have our picture passes tucked into the edges of frames. For my kids they're on a pic of the first day on skis. Mr. Brooksnow's first pass is from 1987, mine from '88. The kids' first passes are from when they were 1. It's fun to see the changes over the years for the rest of my family. I haven't aged at all since I first started working at Sugarloaf in 2000 :becky:.

I was sad when they stopped printing pictures on passes. I won't have a pass pictures of my granddaughter. Mr. B and my kids hated that I insisted on new pics every season.

We keep other mountain rfid cards tucked into the same frames so we can easily grab them when we need them.
 
I love the trail map idea and wish I had started that tradition years ago. And I wish I simply had old trail maps - the mountain has changed so much over the decades. Things are declared old and get tossed long before they become nostalgia.

Anyone have a 1985 Sugarloaf trail map to share? That's when I first skied here.
 
brooksnow said:
I love the trail map idea and wish I had started that tradition years ago. And I wish I simply had old trail maps - the mountain has changed so much over the decades. Things are declared old and get tossed long before they become nostalgia.

Anyone have a 1985 Sugarloaf trail map to share? That's when I first skied here.
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Should I come across one at an antique shop or flea market, I'll let you know. : )
 
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I kind of like that sport card display. I have all of mine in a drawer in my desk.
I'm still looking for an interesting way to display all the pins I have over the years.
Maybe I should be checking etsy for ideas.
 
Not necessarily the answer for everyone but I have them in a glass top coffee table along with other ski memorabilia (trail maps, lift tix, a few good-looking brochures, and such). Like others, my season passes are now reusable year after year, so I don't collect as many.

The table has a history of its own...

I spent a semester abroad in Hungary during my junior year in college, and I collected bottle caps (mostly from Hungarian beers) while I was there. I came home with a gallon sized Ziplock full, with the intention to build a coffee table for my college apartment. I was thinking something rough, unfinished, and maybe just epoxy over the caps for the tabletop. Something that would last my senior year, not much beyond that. Well...I made the "mistake" of telling my dad. He built custom cabinets, and furniture for a living. So needless to say, he wasn't having it when I told him my plans...it quickly became a full-blown project, and a beautiful, finished piece came out of it (though, I did tone down his normal detail work a bit with wanting something "simple").

In hindsight, I'm glad we spent the extra time on the table, because now, almost 20 years later, I still have it and use it. We built in a removable glass top, as he figured I might not want bottle caps as my coffee tabletop in the future. He was right (although the bottle caps came out, and the ski pass went in only about 2 years ago).

The table is currently a mess from coming home from travel...but here's a small portion of it...

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Here's what the full table looks like (plus an old pic of Rendl...lol)

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Jilly said:
I kind of like that sport card display. I have all of mine in a drawer in my desk.
I'm still looking for an interesting way to display all the pins I have over the years.
Maybe I should be checking etsy for ideas.
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I have my pins on my boot bag! Since most of my ski trips are driving, it’s not an issue. If I do use it for air travel, I’ll take them off for the trip.
 
Since I'm hurt, I've been going down that rabbit hole. There are so many "sport card" display cabinets out there...But they usually come up first as "shot glass displays"!!

My thought for my pins, was 3 quilted mountains attached. That way I could organize the pins into "areas". But I don't know how to go about it. Ma be if I just get fabric and quilt batting and attach them to hard cardboard I can make that work. Summer project.
 
Jilly said:
Since I'm hurt, I've been going down that rabbit hole. There are so many "sport card" display cabinets out there...But they usually come up first as "shot glass displays"!!

My thought for my pins, was 3 quilted mountains attached. That way I could organize the pins into "areas". But I don't know how to go about it. Ma be if I just get fabric and quilt batting and attach them to hard cardboard I can make that work. Summer project.
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It would be fun to do pins on an actual map imho. A simple paper map mounted on a thin cork board or felt might be cool.
 
@Jilly - I love the quilted mountain idea! I used to collect pins and put them on my ski bag, but they kept getting caught on things… both inside and outside of the bag, so I stopped collecting. Putting them on a quilted piece is a great idea for display. Now I’m wishing I still had my collection!
 
Jilly said:
I kind of like that sport card display. I have all of mine in a drawer in my desk.
I'm still looking for an interesting way to display all the pins I have over the years.
Maybe I should be checking etsy for ideas.
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Now that you mention this, I've not paid a lot of attention to it, but there is a jewelry store near me that has a section dedicated to coin collecting and sports memorabilia. I've noted frames which hold all sorts of cards, and larger shadow box type frames used for sports pins, military pins and decorations, and such things.

This may be the way to go!
 
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