What do you do with your old banking deal toys?

Title says it all.
I'm ~2 years removed from my banking days and I'm moving apartments so figuring out what to do with my old lucites (they've been sitting in a box for the past 2 years).
Feels wrong to just throw them out but assuming I don't come back to banking (and I never, never plan on going back to banking), I'm not sure there's much to do with them.
What do you guys use yours for?

 

I've kept all mine, though I've contemplated throwing them away at some point. Most of them are simple rectangular shapes so they are easy to transport. If I end up leaving the deal world, I'll definitely trash them.

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I've kept all mine, though I've contemplated throwing them away at some point. Most of them are simple rectangular shapes so they are easy to transport. If I end up leaving the deal world, I'll definitely trash them.

they're good in case home is burglarized and u need quick wep - RE deal toys r da best for this since they're pretty pointedd lawl

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Typically work office or home office depending on space. An associate I worked with while interning at a VC in college had a whole bookshelf dedicated for the deal toys he collected during his banking days. Some were regular old rectangular Lucites, others far more elaborate.

Another buddy of mine keeps his at his house, in his home office. Granted, he's working in DCM now, so has stopped collecting them since issuing debt becomes unremarkable after deal number 3, lol.

Regards

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I don't think I'd ever take any lucites with me. They're hunks of plastic. They don't represent or make up for all the time spent, all the wasted weekends and all-nighters. Time is fluid and irretrievable; any attempt to crystallize it into a placard and stick it on your desk for status seems like self-deception to me. For me I think they would be more of an imposition than a point of pride. Of course, perhaps when I finally get one I'll fall in love with it and polish it every day and sleep with it under my pillow... but somehow, I don't think so.

 
Mis Ind:
All members of a deal team are given lucites. Including some people who were only peripherally involved in the deal.

Depends actually. If your bank wasn't lead on a deal, you're prob not getting one. If it was, you're prob designing, ordering, etc. which is the biggest waste of time ever.

Bascially every MD involved gets once (even if they didn't do much) - i.e., product groups, and then the whole banking team assuming the deal was of decent size...

 

would need to be very lucky to get one as a summer. i 'closed' live transactions during my summer but the lucites took too long to arrive so i never got mine.

the catalogs with all the designs in them are pretty cool though. but then again so are the desks literally covered with lucites in the MDs offices.

 

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