Photo-A-Day #4674

In 2010 I had a pretty decent collection of Disney Pins. I’ve always liked die cast enamel pins. When I went to Florida for my first trip as a kid I went to a flea market and bought a whole bunch of pins. I remember getting a Bigfoot (The monster truck) pin and more and putting them all over a trucker hat. I have no idea where those ended up. That is weird because I pretty much have everything from my childhood.

Cut back to 2005 when I started going back to Walt Disney World and this time with Allison by my side. I ran the Disney 1/2 Marathon and while there I started picking up some pins. By 2010 I had a good set of pins on a camp counselor hat that I work on our trips. On the way home from that trip I put that hat in an outside pocket of one of our bags and when we got home it was gone. It was stolen and I was devastated. I had picked out each pin purposefully and had some ones that were special to me. I had found characters on Motorcycles, other characters dressed as pirates and even more. They were all stolen. I detail it all in my 2000th photo-a-day post.

I haven’t tried to rebuild that collection but I did pick up a few more pins for myself on other trips. The pins above were from other trips and a couple came from a large lot of pins that I just got for Eva and Andrew. In preparation for our upcoming trip I went to eBay and ordered a random lot of 50 pins for $22. The whole intention was for Eva and Andrew to divvy them up and put them on some lanyards that I also bought for them for the trip.

Lot of 50 pins that I got for $22 on eBay. The kids divided them up really well. then they each decided which they wanted to keep and which would be for trading.

The kids show off their new pins on their new lanyards. Eva has a Frozen one and Andrew a Dory one. Eva is also holding her pin lanyard from 2010, the first time that she did pin trading. She has a bunch of Tinkerbell ones because Tinkerbell was a big deal for her when she was younger. And there are some pins from the years when we visited the park. We went to Disney 3 times before Eva turned 3 because she was free. We even went to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween. I can’t wait to see what the kids look for in pins on the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration trip.