At what age do you stop putting posters on your bedroom wall

Firetrap

I'm sitting here in my bedroom in my parents house, a room that's not used except when I come home at weekends. There are still some posters on the walls - mainly film posters which isn't so bad. It would be pretty sad if I still had Morten Harket adhered to the woodchip. Anyway, it got me thinking... at what age are you considered to be too old to have posters on your walls? By posters, I mean the sheets you just blu-tack to the wall, rather than the tasteful framed ones.

DEmeant0r

I never had posters in my bedroom, so I wouldn't know.

estebancambias

Let people think what they want to think, there is no age when posters should be taken down. For example I will always leave me posters on my walls of various bands and singers, from Blink 182 to Frank Sinatra(preasent from my granny in 1996) Also the same with football and wrestling. They are part of who I am. If you're alright with the posters(not the op specifically) then it's ok.

Irish Wolf

Once you move out of home... then you stick them to the ceiling..

In fact I've got a poster of YORE MA on my ceiling..

Peyton Manning

Whenever you move out, you get them framed. Classy.

Hypnotoad

Irish Wolf wrote:

Once you move out of home... then you stick them to the ceiling..

In fact I've got a poster of YORE MA on my ceiling..

I wasn't expecting that but you managed to work it in there.

Terry

LOL!!!
OMG!!!
I'm so cool that I never had posters on my wall.

OMG!!! u r d lamezor.
(Wait for it.
If this thread goes more than one page, someone will post something to that effect).


I've worked in houses all over the country and seen posters on bedroom walls of people of all ages.
If you don't want them there, take them down. Just don't take them down because someone thinks you are uncool for having posters on your wall.

MooseJam

i suppose when you get married and have your own home you should give them up or then again maybe never

Pherekydes

15

Black Swan

Archimedes wrote:

Whenever you move out, you get them framed. Classy.

Me too!

funktastic

I stopped when I was 15. 15 is the age you notice blu-tak stains and become responsible for them.

-giblet

Red Hand

Never had any posters on my wall.

Canis Lupus

To shreds you say?

petes

79

kensutz

No posters but signed and framed football shirts instead.

WindSock

18

humbert

hmm, I notice I didn't put my Buffy poster back up when I came back from college. This situation shall be remedied soonly.

RobertFoster

Whatever age you are when the room gets re-wallpapered and you forget/couldn't be bothered to stick them back up again.

johnnyrotten

10

dbnavan

When I was 12 and in hospital, my sister cut up all my older soccer mags and plastered my wall with them looked cool till i was about 15 and decided I felt wrong falling asleep looking and John Barnes's legs! So I took them them down then.

sioda

28 and still have up to date munster and ireland rugby posters on the walls

phasers

9

aequinoctium

when you take them down for the room to be painted and just not bothered t put them back up

The Bollox

everywhere I go I always take the posters (weather) with me

watsgone

Put one up a hour ago so I don't know, anyway I have no problem with them
21

Tar.Aldarion

I have one at the moment of avril. have a lot of luis royo ones I might put up...
No age is too old, I'm approaching 60.

Ruu_Old

I have some film posters and memorabilia with them, pretty much it.

Duggy747

I never put posters up mainly cuz I was too shattered to. I used to have tons of cartoons I had drawn since primary school all the way up to the present day stuck all over my wall, twas like a personal art timeline and a wall of inspiration I had with all my original cartoon ideas. Then, one day I came home from college to find they were gone and the wall was painted. I frantically searched my room to where I found all my art under my bed...............crumpled...........stuck together with blue-tack..............destroyed!!

As you can probably imagine I wasn't a happy camper.

I never did put posters on my walls...

Plissken1

DEmeant0r wrote:

I never had posters in my bedroom, so I wouldn't know.

Jesus !, what sort of parents do you have !?

Plissken1

Plissken1 wrote:

Jesus !, what sort of parents do you have !?

What does it have to do with parents?

Niamho!

my walls used to be covered top to Bottom Every inch. in all sorts. managed to have about 4/5 randomly dotted around when i was about 18/19 but after that i wasn't arsed.

Crumble Froo

hmmm... im 19, have moved out, and my wall is covered in newspaper cuttings, ripouts from magazines, posters, used gig tickets, funny pics ive printed off, birthday/christmas cards i found cool/amusing and photos... then i have cool lyrics/quotes/one-liners written up in permanant marker

moving out in december though, gonna be sharing a one bed flat with my fella, so probably wont be bringin most of my stuff with me...

starting to get stuff tattood to me now though... maybe thats just the next phase for me

Rb

I still have two massive posters, both on a wall by themselves. One is the top poster from here and the other is this. No interest in blur, but the black and white goes well with the dark red walls I have in my room. They won't be taken down until I've moved out.

However, did take down all the the sports/music/etc posters I had about 8 years ago.

Mrs. MacGyver

Archimedes wrote:

Whenever you move out, you get them framed. Classy.

I actualy didn't think of that! I have posters of Van Gogh's paintings on my bedroom walls at home.

admiralofthefleet

i stopped around 22, but when we win the all ireland ill put a dubs poster up and another when we win the world cup next month

Gaspode

Firetrap wrote:

Anyway, it got me thinking... at what age are you considered to be too old to have posters on your walls? By posters, I mean the sheets you just blu-tack to the wall, rather than the tasteful framed ones.

never too old.

walrusgumble

Irish Wolf wrote:

Once you move out of home... then you stick them to the ceiling..

In fact I've got a poster of YORE MA on my ceiling..

a good old classic poster on the ceiling in college house, all those page 3's. never really understood when girls thought that was weird, what a nice way to make up in the morning when the weather was crap outside

also handy for covering up holes in walls from landlords, apparantely

lilmissprincess

I get sick of posters very so often, like I'd thumbtack em up and rip em down a while later(thumbtacks are a lil difficult to get out of my wall thoguh!)...have up a sign I did as part of an Art thing in TY for Paddys Day, quoting one fo my favourite songs, I have some otheer quotes up, The Hackers Manifesto and photos of me and my friends...
They'll come down when I leave. And go up no a noticeboard/new bluetacked wall in my next home.

walrusgumble

Archimedes wrote:

Whenever you move out, you get them framed. Classy.

ah ye, sure beats paying throught the nose for that vintage (in a years time) of that classic eg beatles or whatever band, sports star picture.

i have a little hereo's corner in my living room with framed posters that once sat nicely via blue tack on me bedroom wall

Nevyn

Nevar!

Hermy

It has nothing to do with age. I stopped putting posters on my bedroom walls when I ran out of wall space.

tech77

Never put posters on my wall when i was younger.
As far as i remember all my brothers and sisters did though.

I was into various bands and actors etc like the average teenager but never felt the urge to idolise them by hanging up a poster.

Always wondered what that said about me.
Suppose i just valued an uncluttered/minimalist environment over idolisation of someone in a poster.
Then again maybe i was just cool.

DarkJager

I think it stops as soon as you realise that the price you'd pay for a poster, would be better spent on a pint.

Wacker

I stopped putting the regular ones up when I was about 20. I'm 25 now, and I have seven on the walls in matching classy black frames. The woman in the shop was giving me a hefty discount by the end due to my repeat business. I have:

Marilyn Monroe, black and white, wearing a winter coat in Grand central Station with a big smile on her face.

Vito Corleone, a close up on his face in mooted colours. My favourite one.

Audrey Hepburn. The classic Breakfast at Tiffany's black and white close up.

AC/DC. The cover to Bonfire. My least favourite poster.

Pulp Fiction. The classic movie poster; Mia Wallace with a cigarette on the bed.

The Beatles, the Abbey Road cover. Very slick.

Led Zeppelin, a black and white shot of them playing live.

I have space for one more. It has got to be Grace Kelly, the hottest, classiest woman that ever lived.

NextSteps

It's like teddies. When do you decide not to share your bed with ten of them?

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I've got only 1 poster in my new place and its framed so that makes it classey!

AlmightyCushion

Why would I put a member of boards.ie on my wall?!?!?!?!

I'll leave.

UB

UB wrote:

It's like teddies. When do you decide not to share your bed with ten of them?

Never!!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Why would I put a member of boards.ie on my wall?!?!?!?!

I'll leave.

That was cringeworthy Cushion, although I was surprised nobody said it sooner.

My wall used to be plastered with posters, then I swapped bedrooms and was only arsed putting 5 back up. It was due to lack of effort that no more went up.
I've got a massive Hot Fuzz poster that I found in one of those cylinder brown tubes on a bus once which is pretty sweet so I'll probably get that framed at some stage and also I've got a really cool poster of the Grim Reaper that I'd like framed also. I'll probably lose the other 3 at some stage, which are a Buffy Cast poster, Danger Maximum Noise Output poster and a Charisma Carpenter poster. They're fine for now, but I can't see myself being bothered putting them up next time I move.

Crumble Froo

tech77 wrote:

Never put posters on my wall when i was younger.
As far as i remember all my brothers and sisters did though.

I was into various bands and actors etc like the average teenager but never felt the urge to idolise them by hanging up a poster.

Always wondered what that said about me.
Suppose i just valued an uncluttered/minimalist environment over idolisation of someone in a poster.
Then again maybe i was just cool.

haha, i love how the opposite of uncluttered/minimalist is idolisation...

my rooms plastered in stuff, barely a spot of paint in the room left to see (im moving out and its gonna be a nightmare fixing it up in december :rolleyes: ) but i see it as different representative aspects of my personality, all positive stuff, the photos of the people and bands and pictures of stuff that remind me of happy times nad make me smile.