I save the ticket stubs from every movie I see in the theater. 

See? Not that cool. A search on the Google tells me that A LOT of people do this - saving ticket stubs from movies, concerts, and other events is of course a great keepsake method - but I'm pretty proud of myself for how long I've been doing it and the fact that I've kept it up. It's become an unconscious thing of mine to drop my stubs into my wallet after showing them to the ticket guy and putting them in my little Ziploc baggie of stubs when I get home. 

So just how long have I been doing this, you ask (or don't ask, whatever)? The first stub I have (I think it's the first one, at least) is from The Lost World: Jurassic Park. 

That came out in 1997 and the date on the stub is 5/31. 

You guys. THAT IS ALMOST EXACTLY 15 YEARS OF MOVIE TICKET STUB-SAVING. Holy crap. I'm impressed with myself. There might be a few stubs I'm missing, from ones that I've lost or whatever, but this little pile of paper is a pretty accurate portrayal of the movies I've seen in the theater for almost half my life. Of course, I saw many movies before The Lost World, but that's just when I decided to start saving them.

I wish I had kept them in better order - I think some of them are out of place - but they're as well organized as they can be for being kept in a Ziploc for 15 years. Should I list all the stubs I have?

Meh, I'm curious. Let's see what I got!

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Forces of Nature

Fight Club

Entrapment

Saving Private Ryan

The Thin Red Line

Batman and Robin

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Picture Perfect

My Best Friend's Wedding

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Contact

In & Out

Men in Black

Titanic

Ed TV

The Other Sister

Titanic (yes, AGAIN)

Forces of Nature (yeah, I saw this one twice, too! I loves Sandra Bullock)

Cruel Intentions

Notting Hill

Mickey Blue Eyes

Grease (OMG, the Grease re-release! This was so much fun!)

The Newton Boys

A Civil Action

Armageddon

Deep Impact

Hope Floats

Armageddon (what?? I don't remember seeing this one twice but I obviously did!)

Patch Adams

A Simple Plan

The Parent Trap

Lethal Weapon 4

Titanic (yeah, I saw this THREE times in the theater. Each time, I had to go with someone who hadn't seen it yet and really wanted to. But I liked the movie... and still do... so I didn't really mind)

Urban Legend

The General's Daughter

Girl, Interrupted

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

The Astronaut's Wife

Deep Blue Sea (FUCK YEAH)

Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

The X-Files 

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Double Jeopardy

American Beauty

The Haunting

The Sixth Sense

Runaway Bride

Ever After: A Cinderella Story

The Green Mile

American Psycho

Reindeer Games

Analyze This

Wild Wild West

Mission Impossible 2

What Lies Beneath

The Perfect Storm

Ocean's Eleven

Save the Last Dance

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Hannibal

Heartbreakers

The Mummy Returns

Moulin Rouge

Catch Me If You Can

A Guy Thing

Final Destination 2

Shrek

Pearl Harbor

AI: Artificial Intelligence

The Fast and the Furious

Jurassic Park 3

America's Sweethearts

Hearts in Atlantis

The Others

Spy Game

A Beautiful Mind

Frailty

Lilo and Stitch

Payback

Eight Legged Freaks

Men in Black 2

Signs

Fear Dot Com

Star Trek Nemesis

Chicago

X-Men

Wrong Turn

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Twisted

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The Dark Knight

Kill Bill: Volume 2

The Forgotten

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

White Noise

House of Wax

The Amityville Horror

Wedding Crashers

Land of the Dead

Saw 2

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Wolf Creek

Hostel

Brokeback Mountain

V For Vendetta

The DaVinci Code

The Lake House

Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Beginning

The Phantom of the Opera

Dead Silence

Hostel Part 2

1408

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Pirates of the Carribbean (not sure which one)

Spider Man 3

The Reaping

Transformers

Saw

Halloween (Rob Zombie's, of course)

Saw 4

Doubt

The Unborn

My Bloody Valentine (the first 3D movie I ever saw!)

The Uninvited

Friday the 13th (shitty remake)

Slumdog Millionaire

Watchmen

The Last House on the Left (awesome remake)

Quarantine

The Ruins

Saw 5

Revolutionary Road

The Haunting in Connecticut

Drag Me to Hell

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Orphan

Saw 6

Shutter Island

A Nightmare on Elm Street (another shitty remake)

Piranha 3D (fucking awesome remake)

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Saw 7 (or Saw: The Final Chapter or whatever the hell the official title is)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Scream 4

Kung Fu Panda 2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Shark Night

and finally....

The Cabin in the Woods

Whew. So what I gather from my collection is that I don't see many movies in the theater anymore... I need to get better at that... or I need more time in the day. Also, my taste in what movies I see in the theater has gotten a bit better over the years. Did I really waste my time and money on Speed 2: Cruise Control??? Well, Sandra Bullock is still my favorite actress, so that's the only excuse I have for that one. Some of these movies I don't even remember seeing at all. Spy Game? A Guy Thing? I put a little note on that stub that says "A Guy (Gay!) Thing" so I obviously hated it. And where is Saw 3? Because I know I've seen all the Saw movies in the theater.

Anyway, that's my nerd post. So do any of you guys do this or have some other nerdy movie keepsake ritual?