<p>So I wanted to post on here to ask if anyone had any suggestions about hanging posters on dorm walls. I know there’s that tacky stuff from 3M but my mother thinks it would be better to paste them onto foam board (that poster board that’s thicker than usual) so that the posters don’t get ruined when you take them off the wall at the end of the year. </p>
<p>Is that approach unusual? I just feel like you never hear about college students doing anything other than sticking their posters to the wall, so will i look like a neurotic person?</p>
<p>DS’s posters survived the year fairly well. I’ve never seen anything but taping/sticky stuff-ing them to the wall. If you have things that are precious to you and shouldn’t get nicked up at all, best leave them at home.</p>
<p>How will you transport them? If you leave them as paper, you can roll them up and put them in a cardboard tube all together. If you mount them, you will have big flat things to take home at the end of the year. You might not even want the same posters from year to year. If you really must mount them, maybe get a cheap poster frame from Walmart or Target (less than $10) and hang it that way so you can put a different poster up next year. </p>
<p>Easiest solution? Just push a few thumb tacks in each corner to secure it to your wall if possible.</p>
<p>3M stuff or the putty stuff works pretty good (depending on how smooth your walls are). </p>
<p>Posters are usually pretty cheap - if they are something you really love/value I’d take them to Office Max-type store and have them laminated - a large poster costs perhaps $5 to laminate - then they will survive better.</p>
<p>Posters to me are kind of dispensable - in other words, often what/ who you like on your poster this year, may change for next year.</p>
<p>+1
They’re posters, people - not high priced artwork or your diplomas or something like that. Use thumb tacks or that 3m stuff like the rest of us. You shouldn’t be thinking about the long term with these things - if they last through the year, great - if not, who cares, get a new one…</p>
<p>$5 to laminate is not over the top if it’s a poster you like. Actually makes it look better on the wall as well. We’ve done this many, many times for some SPECIAL posters my kids have had.<br>
I stand by my suggestion. :)</p>
<p>yeah-My husband laminated several photos he had taken on our vacations (Paris, etc)that DD loved-and gave them as a going away gift for her dorm room freshman year. She has kept them over the years-still loves them.</p>
<p>We had cinderblock walls in one dorm when I was in school, and it was difficult to get things to stick - no two sided tape back then. I recently noticed that a newer dorm had a bulletin board type cork strip across the room so that posters could be thumb tacked to it.</p>