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Tickets Are for Remembering

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As someone who has been saving my ticket stubs for 20+ years I was very frustrated by the disappearance of physical tickets. I paid the extra fee to have them mailed to me, but eventually that went away. Printed emails are not the same. I eventually figured out how to make the most realistic replica ticket stubs possible to add to my ticket stub album. I spent several thousands dollars on professional printers and re…

I don’t get it. Isn’t the point of an experience… the experience? Not to be able to have evidence that you were there? Even if you weren’t? I feel like the whole thing is like some kind of cognitive hangover - “this ticket is important and I must not lose it before the show” turns into “I can never, ever dispose of this piece of paper”.

The token, whatever it is, is a cue or an index card for those experiences and memories. I have a few stashes of old concert tickets and others in scattered drawers, pockets and containers. Stumbling on one is a great rush of memories, and I move it to the aggregated collection.

We really lost something with Print At Home tickets, it's just garbage afterwards, not a permanent thing tied to that event.

I love this idea and want to backfill some select tickets into my bucket of memory cues.

Re: Tickets Are for Remembering

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I definitely do get it, as someone with a (loose and not organized) physical ticket collection. That said, I think it's partly the authentic object I'm attached to. While I'm absolutely amazed at the length you went to create facsimiles, I'm not sure a recreation does it for me. That said, I think it's a nifty gift idea to create e.g. fake tickets to your birthday party or something.

I've got a stub binder that started having print outs of tickets in it or post-it notes. When I would go back to see what I've been to and get a burst of nostalgia, I'd just get mad at the lack of ticket instead of the good memory. Having one that looks and feels like the real thing let me move on from that. There are a lot of folks who feel like the object obtains some "magical aura" by physically being at a concert…

> There are a lot of folks who feel like the object obtains some "magical aura" by physically being at a concert with you

Or at an Arnold Braunschweiger action movie.

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