Continuing from yesterday, Merit Badges.

[featherynscale]

[Poll #921821]

Badges suggested so far:

• Forward Thinker: Planning for retirement, 401k
  
• Homeowner: Having a Mortgage
  
• Overlord: Having at least three minions
  
• Work Ethics: Having time off left at the end of the year
  
• Parent: Birthing and raising a child through age five.
  
• Parent Success: All of your children have moved out of the house. (Either into a college dorm, or elsewhere.)
  
• Grandparent: Your child having a child of their own.
  
• Totaled: Surviving a car accident.
  
• Survivor: Surviving major surgery/life threatening illness
  
• Jailbird: Spending time in jail
  
• Conversion: Changing your religion
  
• Faithful: Avoiding changing your religion for some period of time
  
• Hitched: Getting married
  
• Available Again: Getting divorced
  
• Adults Can Play Too: Carrying over childhood games in an adult form
  
• Bedroom Superstar: (Several suggestions on this one)
  
• Pub Crawler: Knowing your wine, whisky, or beer
  
• Form Filler: Doing your own taxes
  
• Real Job: Holding a job where you earn more than $X, for more than Y length of time
  
• Meet the Parents: Surviving a holiday with your partner's family and not killing anyone
  
• Auto Owner: Paying off a car
  
• World Traveler: Visiting other continents (Maybe a badge for each continent?)
  
• Hangover Helper: Learning to drink without suffering for it later

Comments

[zylch.livejournal.com]

To clarify, I checked "lame" because I don't need no stinkin' virtual badge. I want a real merit badge that I can sew on my clothing!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

See, that was the original concept. Except that that requires somebody to do a whole buttload of embroidery. And embroidery sucks.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I love embroidery. Do I get a merit badge?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You can get the "sews the badges" badge. :)

[zylch.livejournal.com]

But would she have to make her own badge for that?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Probably.

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Or somebody running off several copies onto iron-on transfer paper, ironing it onto some canvas, cutting them into circles, and using fabric glue to seal the edges with bias tape.

Or - better yet - we publish the designs for the badges as an open source template. Then, people can make their own, with whatever they want to use - embroidery, beading, felting, sculpey, heat-transfers, keep 'em digital, etc. People can publish their methods on places like Crafster and CRAFT or their own journals.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sure. We start with the piccies, and then if you want to make your own badge, you can do that. There probably is a badge for that.