I put a cheap chunk of foam posterboard in a cheap art store metal frame (the kind where you buy the top and sides separately for $10 each so you can get the right size for odd-shaped pieces) and a few cheap sticker books to make a base layer. Now when I get a nice big bumper sticker or whatever it goes on whichever part of the sticker wall I like least. Now I have:
somewhere to put all the stickers that’s not going to have to get thrown out when it breaks (like a laptop or travel mug)
wall art I can easily take with me to new apartments (it’s not very heavy so it hangs just fine on command strips or a monkey hook).
a conversation piece to chat about with guests and sometimes post on my otherwise sparsely populated facebook that’s interesting to the people I keep in touch with that way but largely noninflammatory.
and that also makes an easy gift idea to provide to acquaintances, coworkers, etc. who don’t know me super well but want to get me a small, low cost birthday or holiday present.
a designated place that stickers belong. I still have to decide where on the sticker wall they go, but that’s a much smaller decision.
Might not work for everybody, but this was my solution. I’d post a picture for you guys but I don’t really want y’all to be able to identify the last couple cities/neighborhoods I’ve lived in.
I put a cheap chunk of foam posterboard in a cheap art store metal frame (the kind where you buy the top and sides separately for $10 each so you can get the right size for odd-shaped pieces) and a few cheap sticker books to make a base layer. Now when I get a nice big bumper sticker or whatever it goes on whichever part of the sticker wall I like least. Now I have:
somewhere to put all the stickers that’s not going to have to get thrown out when it breaks (like a laptop or travel mug)
wall art I can easily take with me to new apartments (it’s not very heavy so it hangs just fine on command strips or a monkey hook).
a conversation piece to chat about with guests and sometimes post on my otherwise sparsely populated facebook that’s interesting to the people I keep in touch with that way but largely noninflammatory.
and that also makes an easy gift idea to provide to acquaintances, coworkers, etc. who don’t know me super well but want to get me a small, low cost birthday or holiday present.
a designated place that stickers belong. I still have to decide where on the sticker wall they go, but that’s a much smaller decision.
Might not work for everybody, but this was my solution. I’d post a picture for you guys but I don’t really want y’all to be able to identify the last couple cities/neighborhoods I’ve lived in.