Exactly why I ~~didn't~~ don't have any tattoos.

And thus, my drawer of stickers

I was a poor kid. The aunties and uncles would chip in to get us Lego cars and hands-in-pockets minifigs as kids. It had stickers for stuff like truck grilles before there was silk-screening.

They're still on the sticker pages, so many decades later, carefully stored so a small boy can look at them.

It's weird, of course, to someone who never experienced 'eke' level of working poverty, but it's the situation. My nephew will pass these parts onto his kids who I hope will use them all in a week with wild abandon.

even worse: what if I decide where to put it, but in a few yeats get bored with it and peel it away, only to see the surface below not discolour the same way the unstickered parts have?

i got a reusable sticker book exactly for this reason. it's a notebook with pages of release paper so that you can stick and peel off stickers easily. it gives me the satisfaction of "using" my stickers without the permanence of losing them after sticking

I like the idea of stickers, and most of the fun of having them is imagining all the fun and cool places I might put them, like on my car, phone, laptop, coffee mug, game consoles and controllers, mirrors, desk, stereo system, fridge, tool cases and cabinets, etc.

Immediately after fantasizing, I think about what will happen to that sticker, should that item ever need replacing. I’ll either keep the item so I don’t lose the sticker, which leads to hoarding and cluttering, or I’ll have to throw it away which leads to me having to scramble to find a store that sells the same sticker, which more often than not, is impossible to find.

It’s better I just don’t use them and keep them tucked away.

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'm the opposite. As soon as I have a sticker I have to put it on something. The sticker that came with my lockpicks is on my 3D printer. The JWST sticker that I got from the Lake Afton observatory is on my Xbox. If there's a flat surface with enough space for it, that sticker is on it

I still regret not putting that JWST sticker on my actual telescope

the only solution is to buy so many stickers that you couldn't possibly use them all in your lifetime

These guys would go crazy seeing my kid with stickers. There's not hesitation, those bad boys will get stuck on something, no matter how trivial.

Get a sheet of magetic paper or similar and put them on that.

my stickers were all unused

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