Cool Thing to Do With Old Plane Tickets
Aug 25, 2016, 12:54 pm
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Cool Thing to Do With Old Plane Tickets
All,
I just cleaned out my old office and found about 300 old airline tickets. I was wondering if anyone had any cool ways to display them, or something else to do with them. Probably 90 % of them are UA tickets, mainly to Houston and Calgary
, but there are some pretty cool ones too, like domestic china flights and what not. I also have about 400 old hotel keys I found too, but everyone thinks it makes me look like a pimp, so I'll keep those the way they are.
I just cleaned out my old office and found about 300 old airline tickets. I was wondering if anyone had any cool ways to display them, or something else to do with them. Probably 90 % of them are UA tickets, mainly to Houston and Calgary
, but there are some pretty cool ones too, like domestic china flights and what not. I also have about 400 old hotel keys I found too, but everyone thinks it makes me look like a pimp, so I'll keep those the way they are.
Aug 25, 2016, 3:46 pm
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I have no idea if there are sealants or something, but long-term exposure to light will eventually fade the thermal printing. Just something to keep in mind when looking into projects.
Aug 25, 2016, 11:08 pm
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I wonder if it is too late to create a log of flights. I have one with 400 flights from the 1970's and mid 1980's. Then a stack of tickets to the mid-1990's. Then some good memory of flights but fuzzy memory from 1999-2005 maybe.
Aug 26, 2016, 6:28 am
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I've been bringing travel ephemera home for years (not my random ORD-LGA boarding passes, but BPs from unusual -- to me -- routes or airlines, tram tickets and pub coasters from obscure places, etc.) and this is exactly what we do -- stick them up surrounding our big world map with pins in it.
Aug 26, 2016, 6:52 am
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With that many boarding passes you probably have enough to use as wall paper in an office or spare bedroom.
I'd use maps as the base layer (these could be anything from touristy cartoon maps to reproductions of some olde historic ones. Depending on your taste.)
I'd bet the keys make an unusual sound and might make an interesting wind chime....
I'd use maps as the base layer (these could be anything from touristy cartoon maps to reproductions of some olde historic ones. Depending on your taste.)
I'd bet the keys make an unusual sound and might make an interesting wind chime....
Aug 27, 2016, 1:30 pm
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Not jumping to any fast conclusions, trying to imply anything, but too much collecting of less useful stuff, nowadays borders to, or falls within the "hoarding" entity. As I've done that myself, saving not tickets/boarding passes, but hotel key cards, I made them usable for one night, when co-arranging a rather large party. At the entrance, everybody was invited to take a key card, which was the place card for the different dinner tables, as they were named after big hotel chains. Those unused were deposited in plastic recycling container.
As per the question in OP?
I join the shred-it team.
As per the question in OP?
I join the shred-it team.