They live among us
They live among us
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23497761
I started putting mine in a binder with clear sleeves, roughly sorted by theme.
I recently bought one of those hundred packs from Amazon for like $6 and picked about 30 to keep. Still indecisive about which ones to use, and most of those 30 will probably go in the sticker binder. The rest are in a bag that I'll probably drop in one of those little library boxes for someone else to sift through... or hold onto for like a year and then throw away.
1Buy 100 stickers, stick one in every place you can think of
2I have a cap on my truck, they go on the inside of the side door gull wing flap.
1I started holding on to the stickers my kids give me waiting for that perfect spot because what if I put it somewhere and change my mind later and now, well
14Listen... that cow with lilac spots and a flower on her head is too adorable not to see every day. Please put her somewhere so she can be loved. (You can use a loop of scotch tape if you really can't commit to sticking her somewhere permanently!)
5I'd say it could work on a white fridge ;)
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When I recently committed to putting some of my hoarded stickers on my laptop, I got friends to place the first few, because I knew I would be paralysed with indecision.
Maybe you could use a similar mechanism of breaking the decision paralysis? If you have kids (plural), if one kid gives you a sticker, you could get another kid to suggest where to put it. If you're feeling really wild, you could give the sticker to a kid and ask them to stick it somewhere (if they're old enough to understand what kind of place would be bad/damaging)
I sympathise with not wanting to use up the stickers, but if you do use some of them, then as well as having this delightful stash, you'll also have a few cute reminders of your family scattered about. And if you fear your supply is running low, you can give your kids a standing order of "if you see any stickers that make you think of me, I want 'em". It'd make you easy to buy souvenirs for, for sure.
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You can instead put off buying the sticker for the three years of placement decision time, then frantically search for a sticker that used to be widely available, be unable to find it, and regret the decisions that lead you to this place.
1Relevant: invariably, every year we misplace at least one of my kids Christmas gifts before we wrap it and don't realize it till after Christmas.
Somewhere in this house, there is a digital camera (cheap temu one, not a nice one) for oldest. Last year it was a fortunately just a couple little stocking stuffer toys.
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We used to have a chain of stationery stores over here that had shitloads of stickers. They went bankrupt. Now I have no idea where to get stickers from. Except the Internet, of course, where I can pay up my nose for a few Linux / programming stickers from stores that disappear and reappear. Buying stickers as an adult suuuucks here. I don't know how the kids do it.
1Get a nice blank book(with a cover you like), put the stickers in there.
1Wait, does nobody else put all the stickers they find on their laptop lid?
11I cover branding on my devices but after that I have problems.
2I'd need like twelve more laptops for that
4I put them on my 2L water bottle
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And when you finally install the sticker somewhere, you instantly regret it still.
10My solution is to use sticky tack (adhesive putty) to put the stickers on an area of my wall that I’ve dedicated to that.
It allows me to use and display the stickers without using its real adhesive.
13So you could just buy... images?
10Yeah I guess! However in my experience the best images available for purchase are glossy printed with a one time use adhesive back, often referred to as “stickers”
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I have a collection of stickers I've accumulated for years. Only used one once because I had it in double. Regretted it forever. Better keep them all mushed together in the drawer.
8I got a sort of limited edition pride sticker for a social group that I'm a part of. I got three of them and put them on my portable devices but now I don't have any anymore! I want one on my desk waiting to find a home and one on my computer. All my other stickers are in my drawer (not squished though).
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I started collecting stickers, since I don't dare messing up my furniture and stuff.
I only stick them on immediately when I have planned it ahead. But then I buy or print the stickers on purpose.
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