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Post by shady23 on May 18, 2017 23:00:14 GMT
I can never throw out a theatre/concert or sport stub. They have to go in the ticket box. They're just shoved in any old order though.
I will buy every Wicked programme but apart from that I don't buy the big, glossy, expensive programmes. I like the A5 cheap ones and like to get them signed but it has to be on the front not on the inside!
I've also started a bit of a framed poster wall. Got signed posters from Mary Poppins tour, Guys and Dolls tour and the Wicked Tenth Anniversary show up and got a Funny Girl poster signed at stage door tonight. That's going pride of place! 😊
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Post by boybooshka on May 18, 2017 23:41:52 GMT
Scrapbook Pritt-stick No life Same. The benefit of being a couple that watch most things together is that there is usually two tickets, one to go in the scrapbook and one to go in the programme that we always buy. I hate print at home tickets with a passion!
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Post by Kim_Bahorel on May 19, 2017 11:35:45 GMT
I keep all mine some are signed. I remember when I saw Urinetown and instead of taking the rip off stub bit the usher tore 2cms through the middle of it. I wasn't pleased. I have tickets from when I used to go to cinema when I was younger most of which have faded sadly. (I really dont go to the cinema much any more) I also have all my tickets from going to see bands.
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Post by musicalfloozie on May 19, 2017 17:38:18 GMT
I really wish I had but I ended up collecting programmes and didn't think about tickets. Seems to late to start now.
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Post by talkstageytome on May 20, 2017 13:55:31 GMT
I paperclip mine inside my programmes
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Post by theatremadness on May 20, 2017 14:19:22 GMT
Always keep all my theatre tickets, I've definitely got around 13 years worth! I keep them now, especially as you can claim half the ticket price back on your tax return as a self-employed actor as it's "work related"!
I've probably got around 10 years or so worth of programmes, but I've stopped buying them due to price and return visits to shows I already have them for! But I will buy for special theatre occasions I want to remember; Angels In America & Cursed Child coming up, for instance.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2017 14:04:11 GMT
Had a little sort through mine yesterday. Apparently I went to see They're Playing Our Song at the Chocolate Factory. Who knew?
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Post by callum on Jun 20, 2018 1:15:14 GMT
Just had to move to a new flat which meant emptying ‘programme drawer’ - years of tickets, programmes and wristbands from shows, concerts and Q&As that I’ve loved attending. Started out as a ‘memory box’ but now I think I need to start filing more efficiently everything that I’ve acquired.
What is your advice on how to begin to set up a filing system for all of these mementos I’ve collected? So many memories over the last few years. Perhaps a ringbiding folder with plastic wallets that are labelled and dated? Obviously would prefer to avoid damaging the items with sellotape/glue etc. I would feel very irresponsible not to start archiving my theatregoing. Appreciate all tips you might have!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 5:46:47 GMT
I’m not organised at all. I have a huge stack of programmes on top of my bookshelf and then to the right on the wall, there is a cork board with all my tickets on it. I tend to use different coloured pins which match the tickets (e.g. red for ATG and Really Useful, blue for DMT and Nimax, green for Wicked, yellow for Lion King) And when I eventually run out of space there I’ll just blu tac the tickets onto the side of my wardrobe.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 20, 2018 6:47:57 GMT
Merged
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 8:51:24 GMT
I use them as bookmarks - it's really nice to pick up a book I've read before and find the ticket in there - brings back memories in a much more rounded way.
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Post by ensembleswings on Jun 20, 2018 9:14:58 GMT
I’ve got tickets for all the shows I’ve attended since 2015 except the first two. One was a birthday present and my friend didn’t want me to know how much she’d paid for it, so kept hold of the ticket herself and the other was a print at home rubbish thing. All mine are stored in photo pockets in ring binders. Ive tried to keep them in chronological order but because of the difference in ticket/photo pocket sizes that hasn’t quite happened. All tickets like ATG are in chronological order in one folder, then all the slightly larger tickets like RUT are in another folder. As for leaflets I’ve got the ones that are signed in photo pockets in another ring binder, those that aren’t signed are just chucked in a box on my bookcase, with all my programmes lined up on the bookcase.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 9:36:13 GMT
I have several boxes of tickets. A few Christmases ago I was bored and decided to put them all in order. So the boxes from about 2002-2015 are actually all chronologically sorted and banded together. I also implemented a 'system' for the boxes of programmes....and then I got bored with all that and 2015 onwards are just slung in several boxes.
One thing that did happen with a ticket a few years back is I was making a nice 'frame' display of a programme, ticket etc to hang on the wall. Except when I hung it up and looked at it I realised written in bold on the ticket was...the name of my ex who had booked the ticket...not exactly the memento you really want staring down at you every day. (Plot twist, since then we got in touch again, are on good terms and even went to the exact same play together last year.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 19:35:41 GMT
I've never consciously kept tickets - I have a few old ones shoved in programmes, and occassionaly find one in a book. Then for ages I deliberately didn't keep them, because I kept the programmes. But the friend I go to the theatre with now is a ticket keeper, and it has made me actually keep them. She makes scrapbooks and things, but I just shove mine inside the programme and shove that in my theatre box, if I remember. Sometimes I think I've thrown them away though, it's not a terribly deliberate process.
I must sort out my current theatre box, I noticed last weekend that it's really full. I have an 'old' theatre box with everything I saw from the 80s and 90s up to maybe early 2000s. Then I stopped going for a bit and the stuff from the last 7 years or so is in another box. I bought several large storage boxes a couple of years ago, and they're all full of STUFF.
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Post by Stephen on Jun 20, 2018 21:04:21 GMT
I have two ticket stub organisers for all of my tickets. I got the first on a trip to New York and ordered the second online when it was full.
It's the "Just The Ticket Stub Organizer" and can be found online at a reasonable price.
I have yet to treat myself to a binder for my Playbills but that's a definite must soon as the box is getting very full!
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