New Cheerleading Pin Collector from Utah
cheerdadut
New DPF Member
- Messages
- 12
- Location
- Salt Lake City
I wanted to check in and introduce myself. My name is Randy and apparently having two daughters that are cheer leaders isn't expensive enough, Im now collecting cheerleader related pins. I started to collect/trade pins in the mid 90's. I primarily focused on law enforcement pins and mini badges. Then in 2002 the Olympics came to Salt Lake and I got on the pin kick again. After a couple of years it became one of those things that my kids were not into so it was put on the back burner. I grabbed a few pins along the way or friends would hook me up with some new ones but I couldn't find a reason to get any momentum going.
Fast forward to a National Cheer Competition in Anaheim, California last year. I'm walking through the convention center and there I saw it... A lanyard full of pins. What??? There was a reason for me to spend the rest of my weekend at the competitions. The 5 minutes my daughter is performing is awesome but the other 18 hours can get pretty boring.
I ran into a little bit of something I haven't faced before trading pins. Trading pins with young girls can obviously be a little tricky, I didn't want to come across as creepy so I recruited my girls to help me out. I had no idea that they would even like do it let alone approach other competitors and start up conversations about pins. After some training with my girls and now my wife, it's awesome. Normally I would be ignored all day unless somebody was hungry. Now they actually seek me out and say "I got another one for you, what else do you need" then they run off again. Its awesome its like having homing pigeons working for me.
Hopefully more Cheer Dads will get into it and it can really take off. Ive never really traded pins online so be patient with me. I see myself as more of an online collector$$ and in person trader. I am really only interested in cheer related pins. Varsity logo pins are my primary focus but I'm really up for anything.
Thanks for being a part of my family's hobby.
Fast forward to a National Cheer Competition in Anaheim, California last year. I'm walking through the convention center and there I saw it... A lanyard full of pins. What??? There was a reason for me to spend the rest of my weekend at the competitions. The 5 minutes my daughter is performing is awesome but the other 18 hours can get pretty boring.
I ran into a little bit of something I haven't faced before trading pins. Trading pins with young girls can obviously be a little tricky, I didn't want to come across as creepy so I recruited my girls to help me out. I had no idea that they would even like do it let alone approach other competitors and start up conversations about pins. After some training with my girls and now my wife, it's awesome. Normally I would be ignored all day unless somebody was hungry. Now they actually seek me out and say "I got another one for you, what else do you need" then they run off again. Its awesome its like having homing pigeons working for me.
Hopefully more Cheer Dads will get into it and it can really take off. Ive never really traded pins online so be patient with me. I see myself as more of an online collector$$ and in person trader. I am really only interested in cheer related pins. Varsity logo pins are my primary focus but I'm really up for anything.
Thanks for being a part of my family's hobby.
