• slurpyslop
    7•1 year ago

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

  • RBGEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    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.

    • The Picard ManeuverOPEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      I was thinking the same thing. My house is littered with random stickers that have run out of stickiness from being put on everything.

  • noodle (he/him)English
    28•1 year ago

    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?

  • @[email protected]English
    28•1 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      You still get sticker sheets in Lego sets! Only some pieces are screen printed, and usually only in more expensive sets (or on super common pieces).

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        Yes, and stickers are universally hated when they are in some more expensive sets because they are a pain to apply neatly and they don’t last as long or look as good as printed parts.

    • @[email protected]English
      15•1 year ago

      I feel the same way about things. Growing up poor I didn’t really get much, so when I did I never used it for fear of losing it. My parents bought me a book of paper airplanes where you rip out the paper and follow the instructions to make a unique plane. I never used it. I still have the same problem with receiving food as a gift, I won’t eat it. I make enough now to be comfortable, but I have shoes that are worn through that I won’t throw away because I rarely got new shoes when I was a kid. I form crazy emotional attachments to gifts because they were so rare and typically meant someone I loved had to go without just to afford it.

  • @[email protected]English
    16•1 year ago

    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

  • @[email protected]English
    9•1 year ago

    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

      • @[email protected]English
        9•1 year ago

        There are 3 of us! I love the idea of a sleeve of tats but there’s just no chance in hell I’ll make a choice on WHAT the sleeve would consist of. At this point, I feel kinda counter-culture not having any so there’s that at least

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      I keep meaning to buy some of those like $5 bags of 100 stickers or whatever that you can find online for this reason. I love the aesthetic of something like a phone or a laptop covered in stickers, but I don’t like the idea of losing one I care about, like you. So I figure if I just get a bunch without selectively choosing them, there’s likely to be a number that I don’t really care about and therefore won’t be worried about losing that I can use to fill the majority of that sticker space with.