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[shermarama]

I have a load of old tae kwon do stuff, trophies and medals from competitions, as well as a grading award, that I don't know what to do with.

I haven't done tae kwon do in coming up for a decade, and I'm not about to start again any time soon. The trophies aren't anything special in themselves, and I'm never going to want to put them on display or anything. I didn't have them on display when I won them, other than in the sense of them sitting around on a shelf because they had to be somewhere. Now they're in a box in the loft, taking up space. There's no reason to keep them, but it seems subtly wrong to throw them out. But I want to reduce the amount of shite I've got and they're prime candidates for shite status.


Internet, what should I do with them?

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[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

KEEP!

[complexicon.livejournal.com]

Dispose of them in the most profoundly unenvironmentally sound way you can, chuck them into a nice green meadow preferably bouncing them off the head of a tree-hugger.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Do the trophies have actual depiction of tae kwon do on them, or could you just change the plaque to read "WORLD CHAMPION AT LE MANS 24 HOUR DRUM-A-THON" or "WORLD RECORD HOLDER FOR MOST JAMMY DODGERS EATEN IN 1 HOUR" or something equally awesome?

[shermarama]

They mostly have a man suspended in mid-air trying to kick something that's above his head. He doesn't necessarily have to be doing tae kwon do, but he doesn't really suggest Jammie Dodger eating.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ok, how about "WORLD CHAMPION AT KICKING THROUGH REHEARSAL ROOM WALLS REVEALING MEMBERS OF RUN DMC ON OTHER SIDE'?

[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

*impressed*

[shermarama]

Now that's a possibility.

This would, however, only leave me with the question of what to do with my World Champion At Kicking Through Rehearsal Room Walls Revealing Members of Run DMC On The Other Side trophies. Perhaps I could send them to Steve Tyler?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't you want to put them on a shelf? They are for winning stuff, you should clearly have them where you can see them. Even if it's only in the bathroom where only you can see them.

[shermarama]

I suppose, but I still won them whether I've got the physical things or not. I have a photo of me in my gi, in the foldy seats at the side of a vanue, drenched in sweat, grinning and holding up a medal, and that's more the sort of thing I want to keep than the medals or trophies themselves.

[xxxlibris.livejournal.com]

Wear all the medals, carry all the trophies (or balance them on you), take photo, keep photo, chuck the rest?

Better yet

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Take photo, keep photo, send copy to Steven Tyler and Reverend Run.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Depending on how specific they are, offer them to a local tae kwon do club to save them the cost of a few trophies?

[shermarama]

My local tae kwon do club would still be the one I was in when I got them, but they're not the sort the club would give out themselves; they came from national-level competitions. Plus they're all pretty grubby by now...

an alternate method would be to set them in resin

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

Got enough medals to solder together and make a pot-stand? Similarly, a small amount of adjusting and weighting might make a door prop of one or more trophies...

I may be being impractical

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

oh, no wait -- are they little models of men with limbs akimbo??? Because a quantity of them fused together would make a fantastically disturbing jewellery stand

Re: I may be being impractical

[shermarama]

*grins* I like the idea of converting them to something else, but the medals are chunks of metal of dubious quality and I can imagine them cracking on exposure to heat, I don't have any doors of the sort that need propping, and though the trophy men are variously jumping sideways with one foot on the air or standing with their foot above their head, (show-offs) I have no use for a jewellery stand either.