Storing/displaying lift tickets?

[TsuKata]

I've saved every lift ticket that I've gotten since I started skiing. I'd like to store or display them somehow, but I'm not sure of a good way to do it. A photobook will be all lumpy (since, in many cases, I couldn't fully remove the metal holder without damaging the pass...I've generally snipped it off with wire cutters and cut the wires where they come out of the pass and then filed them smooth). I've also saved my trail maps, and it'd be fun to be able to keep them together. Someday, ten years from now when I *might* have made it onto a black, I'd like to be able to look back and say, look where I used to ski!

Have any of y'all done anything with your collection of ski passes? What would you suggest?

 

[skidaup]

I have a huge map of the US in our family room and just stuck them all around the edge of the frame, it's not fancy but it looks pretty cool. Now I am interested to hear what others have come up with. Such good ideas on this forum.

 

[Jilly]

I don't have passes but pins. I have this idea of a fabric quilted type wall hanging that I could pin them all on. 3 moutains - representing North America West, East and Europe is the idea. Someday I'll get busy changing the idea to reality.

 

[volklgirl]

I have a hat with pins from every area I've ever been to. We now have a tradition in our family - whenever a new friend goes somewhere new with us, they get a pin from that area if they ski a black (or even a blue for a beginner skier). Now everyone we ski with has their own pin collection started.

I haven't figured out a way to display our trail maps yet, so they're all stored in a shoe box with their corresponding lift tickets. I even found my map from the first time I was at A-Basin, 14 years ago!!

 

[abc]

You need a lot of wall space to display the trail maps!

But to display the tickets, how about just pin them on a board on the wall?

I know, it's not classy nor elegant. But you can see them easily and talk about them whenever you feel like!

And how about keeping the trail maps in a folder, marked the runs you skied?

I'm just tossing ideas out. I'm USUALLY not a sentimental person. But I have this giant chart of my favorate kayak touring destination on my wall. So every time a visitor comes, that's a good conversation openner!

 

[Jilly]

Hubby is on his 3rd cowboy hat with all his pins. Great conversational piece. One day on a bus from Calgary to Panorama a women actually asked if he'd skied all those areas. He took his hat back, placed it on his head and YES! It's now a band that can be transferred to the next hat.

 

[Robyn]

I've seen them used as Christmas tree ornaments if you celebrate the holiday.

 

[Gloria]

You know I was in a store recently that had the fancy sheets of really cool wrapping paper. I wonder if you could use something like this as a background and make a handful of collages by region or year etc and then frame and hang in a nice group? You could also add a few photos to the mix as well.

 

[Severine]

I've seen them used as Christmas tree ornaments if you celebrate the holiday.

That one makes me smile. :D You could even just do a winter tree if you don't celebrate Christmas. Throw your lift tickets on, maybe some snowflakes, and you're good to go. :D White lights go with everything.

 

[skimomma24]

I like this idea! In past years, I have hung on to lift tickets,a nd sometimes trail maps for a while. Then I purge and everything gets tossed. I like the idea of pins though, or some sort of little sticker from the hill/resort. Maybe I'll start now. ;)

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Rather than thin-coat plaster and paint some taped drywall in a basement laundry room, DH & I wallpapered it with trail maps. Was more like "decoupage" than wallpaper, looked neat. Sold the house, had to leave it all behind. :(

 

[volklgirl]

Hey, you could do that with a thin layer of (oh crap. What is that stuff called??? Big blank right now, argh!) plywood (but that's not the word I was looking for), then do a decorative frame around it to hold it to the wall. Then you could remove it to go with you next time.

 

[amanda]

I like the collage idea. You could make a big collage with all the tickets and then frame and hang it. They also might be cool on a coffee table. Maybe one that has glass that you could put all the tickets under. Or you could probably just use an old coffe table and and put epoxy or a piece of glass on top.

 

[volklgirl]

Wow, another great idea - the table!

If you wanted to go with lift tickets and trail maps, you could probably print off the trail map from the resorts' web sites which would be considerably smaller than the actual trail map. Match it up with the corresponding lift tickets and decoupage or glass cover for a table or bar top. That'd be sweet.

Or turn all the lif tickets into a wall border in one room????

 

[missyd]

My lift tickets hung on the wall in the kitchen ... one big nail in the wall for each resort I went. But after a few years they got dirty and I trew them away. Today most swiss resorts have tickets with a chip inside. You can give them back at the end of the day (with a refund) or you buy it (like at Laax resort) and can be reloaded (even online from home!) every time you visit the resort.

I think the idea with the map and the resorts is my favorite!:D:D

 

[Gloria]

Coffee table is a great idea! I have seen where people have taken oversized planters filled them with sand and placed mementos on the sand. For the top they use one of those pieces of glass for those 3 legged tables. It works good with horseshoes and western decor but I suppose you could use white sand and put a few plastic skiers in there to be funny. just think if you could find skier smurf and put him in there!

 

[sibhusky]

I've saved all the family season passes, but certainly not all the paper lift tickets over the years. The season passes are in one large frame I got at Target, but looks like I need to buy another. I can't imagine if I'd saved 38 years of day tickets!!!!!!!

 

[White tara]

I've saved all the family season passes, but certainly not all the paper lift tickets over the years. The season passes are in one large frame I got at Target, but looks like I need to buy another. I can't imagine if I'd saved 38 years of day tickets!!!!!!!

I thought about saving all of mine too and then like sibhussky came to the conclusion that it will probably be too much. i've only been doing this for a short time but I could quickly imagine the boxes of papers piling up pver the years. I have pack rat tendencies that tend to go overboard of not kept in check. Which is why I decided to not even start...Although I'm sure there will be a couple I will decide to keep but certainly not all of them.

 

[Kara79]

I do some scrapbooking once in a while.

I take trail maps and use them for the background of the page (bonus because it's free). On top of that I put pictures of myself and/or close ones. I glue my expired season pass and lift tickets in as well.

I'll buy some ski/snowboarding/winter related stickers too!

It makes for a pretty cool looking scrapbook page!

 

[merrow]

I've seen them used as Christmas tree ornaments if you celebrate the holiday.

That's totally my tree! Although I wasn't smart enough to save all of my lift tickets, which is really a bummer. My favorite is one from Attitash -- with a MAY SIXTH date on it! :D

I must say, I'm always happy when I get an old school wicket now, because I think they look the coolest on the tree...