I have two degrees from college and starting my third degree soon. Combined with my high school tassle, I have three and will eventually have 4 tassels. I’m thinking about having a picture framer create a shadow box to display them. Maybe put a little card underneath each tassle with the name of university, and hang it in my den.
Displaying the actual diplomas won’t look good, I think that would be awfully pretentions to display 3 or 4 diplomas.
Any thoughts about displaying the tassles?
I like the tassel display idea. Get an artsy person to do it, not sure you need the cards.
My diplomas went to my parents! The college diplomas of all of their children were framed and on the wall of their den.
When they passed, I retrieved mine and they sit in a box! Not sure what I’ll do when we move in a few months. Maybe actually hang them, as well as my wife’s diplomas if we can find them!
Hang the tassels in your bedroom or den at home. No one is going to have any idea what your tassels mean.
Where I worked, we were REQUIRED to have our diplomas, and all certifications displayed. No one gave two hoots about the tassels.
Sorry, I was talking about the den at home. Not at work.
@engineer4life I have three degrees…and I didn’t attend graduation…so I have NO tassels. None. Honestly, do,what you want.
My diplomas are now in my laundry room…framed.
I’m just amazed that anyone still has all of their tassels and knows exactly where they are! I say frame those suckers while you can still locate them.
True story: I’m pretty certain that my HS tassel is with my HS diploma (small, in a book-type cover) in whatever box it got packed in. I do know that my undergrad diploma is framed, but I don’t know which of the umpteen mirror boxes it got packed in. I don’t remember getting to keep that tassel. I think it was a permanent part of the mortarboard. Maybe I need to ask my college roommate about that. I didn’t go to graduation for my first M.S. so no tassel, and I’m not clear on where that diploma landed either - unframed but big and flat so surely in one of those umpteen mirror boxes. Tassel, mortarboard, gown, and hood from the second M.S. are all packed together when we moved again last summer in a place that would be “easy to find when I need them in a faculty job”, so of course I haven’t a clue about where they are - other than that they are NOT in a mirror box. Oy. That last diploma is still in its mailing tube and is right on top of the bookcase in my bedroom.
You’re the same poster who wants to pursue a PhD but doesn’t want to give up working your full time job. It looks like you have a fascination with the trappings of a degree. By now you likely have figured out that no one cares about where you went etc. btw- at Abbott years ago my PhD friend answered my query with the fact that no one went by titles- most likely had a doctorate but that title wasn’t used. My college and medical diplomas sit in our fireproof (but not bad smell proof safe, the MD one is a bit bent to fit (my specialty never had an office). My current license is a scrap of paper- far more useful.
Do not get caught up in the trappings of tassels et al. That is living in the past. The competent work you now do counts. That is how people evaluate you and respect you.
Go ahead and do it if it is what you want. My diploma is under my bed (i had it laminated as was the style years ago – ugh) and my kids diplomas are in leather/plastic cases on a bookshelf. My S does collect mugs and has mugs from the universities he attended – I think he threw his tassels inside of the mug but I’m not sure.
I don’t know where my diplomas or tassels are. I really have no clue. If you want to display them then go ahead, but people might think its a bit weird since most people don’t care about such things. I don’t know why you’d put a note next to each. Do you expect your guests to read them and be impressed? It’s different if you are displaying diplomas professionally in an office to show clients your credentials.
Display them! I don’t have mine, but my diploma is framed and hanging in our office. I didn’t frame my Masters, I don’t know why. I think I’ll do it when I frame my kids diplomas.
Are all three of your degrees in engineering? If so…are the tassels all the same color?
I think it would be a cute idea, but only if hung somewhere where only you and your family would see it. And if it’s just for your personal enjoyment, I’d skip the identifying info and instead include a photo of you in your cap and gown in each case, with the relevant tassel attached. (I’m guessing anyone who still has their tassels also still has some graduation day photos.)
I have no memory of whether I ever had tassels and, if I did, whether and where I kept them. I couldn’t even tell you where my diplomas are. I wasted money framing them thinking in my youthful naivete that I would hang them in my office, then quickly realized I’d look like a fool and hid them away instead. But I’m sure they’re… somewhere. I have exactly one education-related souvenir that I keep careful track of, and that’s a letter from a current justice of the US Supreme Court complimenting my final exam in a law school class. And I’ve never even framed that, though it might be a whimsical conversation piece at this point in my life, since the signer has lately achieved quite a level of popularity.
I read the thread title and thought “Shadow box!” before I even clicked it.
And for something totally different, you could put it in an ornament:
http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/2013/05/tool-time-tuesdaygraduation-tassel.html
Our tassels (three degrees between the two of us, including a law degree) are in a box somewhere. Once our girls got old enough to understand what they were, we framed our diplomas and put them in our living room. Every now and again I see them looking at them - even though mine is in Latin, lol.
I hope they serve as some kind of subliminal inspiration 
back in my day - your high school tassel would get hung from the rear view mirror of your car
heehee…i was just coming to say the same, except to say dont…i got a ticket for obstruction of view.
:))
Is it wrong to tie your tassle to a long string on a stick and play with your cat?
^^That’s what kiddos did. 
I think a shadow box is a cute idea if that’s what you want to do, but realize that it will cost an arm and a leg to have someone else do it. I don’t get the naysayers here who are ho-hum about their own degrees. There are lots of pinterest pages about graduation shadowboxes. Go for it!