Do you display your medals? And how?

[Ordway]

The thread title pretty much says it... I have a box of medals that I periodically think would be nice to display in some way. They're fun to look at as each one reminds me of the tournament I got it at. But I'm always stumped about what to do with them.

So, do you guys display your medals, and if so, how? I'm particularly interested in solutions that 1. are very inexpensive, 2. look nice, and 3. allow for frequent new additions

[telkanuru]

I have 'em hanging from the pipes that cross the ceiling of my dorm room...

[Frank Pratt]

Mine are in a box somewhere. I have a few trophies displayed on top of the china cabinet, but I've been advised that I will have to find a new home for them. I know a couple of fencers (more successful that I) who give them away to kids in the family or "recycle" them as awards for unsanctioned "practice" inner-club competitions.

Has anyone out there actually framed a medal from, say, a NAC or Nationals? I've never even been close, but I thought I might do so if I ever made it that far.

[glowstix]

mine are kept...somewhere..i try not to look at them or i feel like i actually accomplished something when in actuality i have a long way to go; every now and then i may look at my 1st place medal but only if i'm cleaning out or something.

[whtouche]

I've got a couple of shelves of a book case in my room at home that houses all my medals and trophies. I try to split them up into bronze silver and gold. The 4-8 medals are just lumped in with the bronze, the trophies are in no particular order. However when I'm at school all the medals I earn that season are, as with telkanuru and I think he might have gotten this idea from me, hung from the pipe that runs near the ceiling of my room. All of my medals from last year, including collegiate awards, are now looped around a carabiner with a keychain ring, and hung on the wall in my room. I think I've decided this is my new favorite way to keep them, just have all the medals from one year on a carabiner hanging from the wall.

[CvilleFencer]

The first handful I got my Fiancee put them up on the wall in my office with all my other travel and military memorabilia. The rest of them are proudly displayed in an old fencing shoe box in the bottom of a closet somewhere, rolling around in the bottom of my fencing bag or tossed in random places.

I have thought about giving them out for club tourneys, but most of them have plates on the back that say what tourney they were for and for some reason I feel odd about the thought of giving them away. Kinda odd that I don't really care about them on one hand, at least as far as displaying them, but I don't want give them away either... If I ever get NAC or higher medals I would probably put those up on the wall, or if it was something cool like the Ma Cup or our Division Champ trophies which are huge (although you don't get to keep them, you have to return them at the end of the year which sort of sucks).

[cellistic]

I hang mine off the curtain rod end in my bedroom. That way I don't feel like I'm showing off, but they don't just sit in a box under my bed.

[akaiyuki]

Hang them up on my wall back home... I got lazy in the end and some are just sitting on my dresser.

[tallntender]

I hang the current season's medals in my office. The old ones are in a drawer at home. My salle displays trophies for a year. Then they wind up on top of a bookshelf at home. I still have plenty of room. . . .

[jeff]

Mine are prominently displayed in the basement near the furnace, except for one medal whose ribbon is artistically draped around a fencing statue on the mantelpiece.

[JEC]

Originally Posted by jeff

.... except for one medal whose ribbon is artistically draped around a fencing statue on the mantelpiece.

You got a place in the mantelpiece... and for fencing... WOW! I am impressed, if I am lucky, I could keep the corner in the garage for my stuff.

[Katman]

Both of mine ( ), a trophy and a medal, are sitting on the edge of my dresser. The medal his hanging around the little trophy-dude's neck.

I'd probably cram them somewhere in a closet unless I get something really nice someday.

[mrbiggs]

Nearly all of my medals are reminders of me not quite finishing as well as I could in a tournament, since most are from very easy tournaments, and only one is a gold medal.

And the gold medal is a reminder of the day I should've gotten an E but didn't.

So I really couldn't care less about medals. Maybe when I'm really proud of one someday I'll put it somewhere...

[rustica]

My daughter uses a wooden tie rack about a foot long with pegs sticking out at 1/2 intervals, staggered not quite over each other. My husband uses the doorknob in our bedroom as a "display" place for his medals. Trophys are in a box in her room. Our real problem is event tee shirts and what to do with all of them!

[Sciurus-Rex]

I wear mine everywhere I go.
My neck and shoulders are getting very sore. My physician has tried to talk me out of doing that, lest I require corrective surgery.

[fencergal33]

I finally came up with a truly awesome way to display my medals about a year ago. I bought a coffee table for my living room, and when you look into the glass top of it, it's actually a display case. I put most of medals, and a few really cool daggers in there, and I get lots of comments on it when people come into my house.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

I've kept them above my bed on a rack. I think I'm gonna start giving them away though.... recycle

[sabreur]

I have a wooden coyote, about 24 inches tall. Around its neck hang the first and in some cases, the last, collars of all my dogs, living and dead, and all my fencing medals.

Go figure.

MR

[Black Jeebus]

Doorknobs, or at least it used to be doorknobs when I was getting TKD medals, now that I have moved its just a few fencing medals hanging on my closet door.

[dreamer90024]

I have mine on a curtain rod.