The Pushpin Enthusiast's Collective

All thumbtacks are pushpins, but not all push pins are thumbtacks

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Price Per Pin: 37 cents

Colors: Cream, Baby blue, princess pink, pastel grey, baby yellow

Color Rarity: 8/10

Overall rating: 7.1/10

Suggested Environment: Pastel Barn Party

These pushpins are super cute. Obviously a PPP of 37 is off the charts, but these ones I don't think are so bad. These are genuinely colors you cant get anywhere else, and the rustic wooden pushpin look is very cute. Almost all wooden pushpins come in this shape, a little fatter and more bulbous. Personally I prefer the feel of plastic pushpins, but these are super fun to experiment with. I think these are a must have for anyone having a pastel cowboy party, or something like it. I'm very into pastel cowboy myself, so I definitely understand the appeal. Will be purchasing ASAP.

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Price Per Pin: 74 cents

Colors: Cream, Lime, Ocean Blue, Sky Blue, White, Magenta, Baby Pink

Color Rarity: 5/10

Overall rating: 4.6/10

Suggested Environment: Beach Wedding Planner

Hmm. These pushpins are very conflicting to me. Of course i love the starfish on top, that gives it an energetic, fun coastal vibe. The color choices, however, elude me. The cream on clear push pin? Black on clear? Red star on white? It seems like not much attention was put into organizing them. There are some standouts, however, like the light blue starfish on the dark blush pushpin. I quite like the light pink starfish on the deep magenta as well. I believe you can customize which pushpins you receive, so the peculiar colors aren't so bad. The price tag, on the other hand, is absolutely unbelievable. Of course i understand they are custom, so there should be a price increase, but a PPP of 74?! That's insane. Buying ten pushpins costs you 7 and a half dollars. One of my favorite things about the pushpin community is how cost effective it is, its not a hobby you need to spend a ton of money on. This is just too much, maybe if you fall in love with these then go for it, but to me I won't buy.

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Pushpin Review 5/9

Price Per Pin: 11.9 cents

Colors: Tangerine, Ocean, Forest Green, Purple

Color Rarity: 6/10

Overall rating: 7/10

Suggested Environment: Halloween Rave

These pushpins are great for specific occasions. The clearness is really nice, because they've got a little bit of a sparkle to them that would look amazing in a glow in the dark type event. These aren't really the type of pushpins you just buy and put in your room, but they're definitely a great option for halloween :)

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Pushpin review 5/6

Price Per Pin: 20 cents

Colors: Alabaster, Ocean Blue, Lime, Cherry

Color Rarity: 1/10

Overall rating: 3/10

Suggested Environment: Nerdy Mancave

It makes me so sad to give this awesome retro pushpins such a low rating, but it needs to be done. I love the packaging, but thats where my praise ends. The colors are common and ugly, and they really don't go with each other. The shape is fine, but the price tag is absoloutely rediculous! I get it, they're 80s, nostalgic, but seriously there is a line! 20 cents for tacky, run of the mill pins? I really want to like them, but its a no from me.

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Push Pin Review- 5/5

Price Per Pin: 7.3 cents

Colors: Lavender, Orange, Sky Blue, Bubblegum

Color Rarity: 7/10

Overall rating: 8.6/10

Suggested Environment: Kitsch suburban kitchen

These pushpins are an amazing model for what pushpins should be. The case is super fun, I live how it's twisted on its side, very unique (the pink top is great aswell!) I love the shades the went with for these pushpins, the purple is great, the orange is magnificent, the pink is nice and the blue is pretty good. Overall, great color choices, great side, very fun!! Great job :)

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Push Pin Review 5/4

Price Per Pin: 13 cents

Colors: Magenta, Brass, Pea Green, Aquamarine, Silver

Color Rarity: 5/10

Overall rating: 4.4/10

Suggested Environment: Quirky Therapist's Office

These pushpins are trying to go for a silly and spunky take on the classic pin formula, but it's not happening. The shape distracting and slightly uncomfortable, and the colors are tacky. These pushpins really stand out in a collection, but not necessarily in a good way. Again, I think you could make these work if you really had a strong vision, but there are better, more affordable options, and the shape is nasty.

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Push Pin Review- 5/3

Price Per Pin: 16.5 cents

Colors: Ocean blue, Navy Blue, Standard Blue, Periwinkle, Cyan, Cotton Candy, Baby Blue

Color Rarity: 6/10

Overall rating: 6/10

These pushpins are very polarizing in the push pin community. On one hand, having that full gradient of colors so quickly available makes pinplucking look redundant, but the price per pin is definitely questionable. It's one of the highest I've ever seen, clocking in at about 16.5 cents. I will say, however, it is just so convenient and so much fun to have all those colors on your wall. If you're not interested in pinplucking all of these yourself, I get it, but prefer to find them in the wild!

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4/25 Push Pin Review

Price Per Pin: 7.1 cents

Colors: Gold, Silver, Royal Blue, Jazzy Purple, Seafoam, Pickle, Baby Pink, Clear, (etc?)

Color Rarity: 8/10

Overall rating: 9.4/10

These pushpins are 100% my go to for buying metallic pushpins. They're colorful, fun, and have a very affordable price for being painted metallic. The color choice is really phenomenal, with standouts like gold and silver really making this a valuable thing to buy. I 100% Recommend, if you can afford it, to use these for pinplucking. There is nothing quite like finding a metallic push pin when plucking!! Great buy.

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4/24 Pushpin Review

Price Per Pin: 6.6 cents

Colors: Fuchsia, Grape, Mint, Orange, Lemon, Sky blue, Ocean Blue

Color Rarity: 7/10

Overall rating: 7/10

These pushpins are definitely a solid option for people who really want clear pushpins, but I wouldn't describe them as a must-have. These pushpins have great options for clear colors, like tangerine, mint, and fuchsia is of course an amazing clear color to have! However, I think the push pins aren't particularly outstanding, but definitely a good option for clearness.

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Push Pin Ranking 4/21

Price Per Pin: 2.3 cents

Colors: Clear, Chloroplast, Noir, Lemon, Cherry, Lavender, Sky, Alabaster, Mustard, Blue, Mint, Cherry

Color Rarity: 4/10

Suggested Environment: Crusty college hallway

Overall rating: 8.2/10

These push pins are my #1 suggestion for people getting into pinplucking. This pack combines clear and opaque pins to give so many options for diversifying the pushpin economy. The price per pin is really incredible, so personally this is an amazng choice for people who want to pinpluck seiously.

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Pushpin Rating 4/21/23

Price Per Pin: 3.9 cents

Colors: Cherry, Lime, Lavender, Sky

Color Rarity: 3/10

Suggested Environment: Punk/Grunge Poster-covered bulletin board

Overall rating: 4.7/10

These pushpins are a valuable addition to your collection if you know what you want to do with them. The clear red is definitely the most valuable of the push pins, but overall they're not particularly rare. However, the translucent look can really make an edgy, poster filled bulletin board if you plan. I reccomend these for advanced pinners, but you can probably find most of these pinplucking.

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Beginners Guide to Pinplucking

Do you like collecting things? Do you like getting things basically for free while not stealing? I suggest Pinplucking!

Pinplucking is one of the most fun ways to get unique push pins to add to your collection, and a great way to diversify the push pin ecosystem!

Step 1: Buy push pins. If you're a newbie, feel free to get the cheap stuff, Nobodies gonna judge you. However, once you start going deep into pushpinning, and start buying them from stores, you'll get more and more duplicates that you don't have a use for.

Step 2: Scout out good pushpinning spots as you go about your life. Dentists office, Gym, Office, printing store, who knows, but keep an eye out for push pins. If you go to school/have a job, this is also a great thing to do. ESPECIALLY for college campus's.

Step 3: Keep your excess pins on you at all times, and when you see a push pin you dont have, trade one out! NOTE: don't pluck pins that look custom, special, or fancy. If you get even the slightest suspicion anyone cares, ask. Tell em' the collective sent ya.

Step 4: Profit!

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Push Pin Rating- 4/20/23

Price Per Pin: 10 cents

Colors: Coral, Mustard, Alabaster, Periwinkle, Cyan

Color Rarity: 7/10

Suggested Environment: Plushy-filled Kawaii bedroom

Overall rating: 6.5/10

These pushpins serve a very niche role in pushpinning. Incredible colors like coral, mustard and periwinkle are very desirable, but the price tag is not. If you're just getting into pushpinning, I would stick to pinplucking before you begin buying things like these, as the price racks up fast. Colors are absoloutely gorgeous, though.

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Push Pin Ranking-4/20

Price Per Pin: 9.5 cents

Colors: Cherry, Lemon, Ocean Blue, Alabaster, Forest Green

Color Rarity: 1/10

Suggested Environment: Underfunded Public School Main Office

Overall rating: 3/10

These pushpins are your run of the mill color scheme, but really fall behind competitors by shape and cost. The Price Per Pin is unreasonably expensive for how cheap looking they are. The final nail in the coffin is the shape-its too long and kills that iconic pushpin look. If you really want to get into pushpinning, go better. If you just want something to hang things up, go cheaper.

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Pushpin Rating-4/20/23

Price Per Pin: 4 cents

Colors: Bubblegum, Tangerine, Lemon, Sky Blue, Lime, Lavender

Color Rarity: 6/10

Suggested Environment: Elementary Classroom, light and airy environment.

Overall rating: 8.7/10

These pins are perfect for creating a fun, friendly environment! Great for young students. The circular color organizer is a little bit of extra effort that goes a long way. The secondary colors are always hard to get in aesthetic shades, so definitely recommend this for anyone interested in push pinning!