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Post by mirabelleswalker on Jan 30, 2015 22:34:26 GMT
Gift ideas. That way the intended recipients won't see them.
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Post by tallgirl on Jan 30, 2015 23:39:18 GMT
Sometimes I just don't want the whole world to know what I'm thinking. "OH, you're planning a vacation there?" "OH, that's the theme for your kid's next birthday party?" "OH, you're doing a staircase gallery wall?" Sometimes I just want to do stuff without it being a topic of conversation. Especially if I haven't costed out the trip or the project or whatever, and it may never wind up happening.
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Post by blue tulip on Jan 30, 2015 23:45:42 GMT
one is for supplies I use/am thinking about using for my business. one is for gift ideas. the third is jewelry for my VCH piercing. family and real life friends certainly don't need to see that lol.
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Post by alissa103 on Jan 31, 2015 2:38:30 GMT
I have a "random" one where I just pin stuff I don't want others to see. Vacation ideas or b!tchy memes or whatever. I made that one when you could only have two secret boards and now that you can have more, I still just put all that sort of stuff on that one board.
Then I branched out and made separate private boards for: *Future Baby Nursery Ideas *Scrapbook Class Ideas (I was asked to teach at a charity crop and I don't want followers/friends who will attend to see what I'm working on) *Gift ideas (mostly for my mom bc she follows me on Pinterest and I don't want her to ruin her surprises) *Fisher Price Little People sets. I pin the cute ones I want to get for DS or if I find one at Goodwill I pin the original photo to try and find the other pieces/parts as I thrift shop. Some of my mommy friends who follow me would think this is weird so I keep it hidden. Ha.
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Post by msbee on Jan 31, 2015 3:01:01 GMT
I have several. One I share with DD that is "Too crude for public consumption"
I have several related to our seperattion- moving, relocation, moving on etc
Trips I want to take in the future
Potential gift ideas
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Post by Nanner on Jan 31, 2015 4:05:32 GMT
An All to Myself board - Things I want to read or learn about that I don't want others to know I'm doing/struggling with etc. I have one of those as well. I also have a board with personal ideas that I intend to journal/art journal about.
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Post by originalvanillabean on Jan 31, 2015 13:31:45 GMT
I don't have any secret boards, but I have some ideas now. I think I will by this evening.
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Post by pretzels on Jan 31, 2015 13:36:16 GMT
My BFF and I share two: One for super-hot guys and one for humor that if our normal family and friends saw, would probably be horrified. ;-)
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Post by pmm on Jan 31, 2015 14:03:37 GMT
I don't have any secret boards. I'm an avid card maker and my friend that sells Stampin Up! informed me that she has a secret board for her class projects because too many of us follow each other on Pinterest. She doesn't want us to know what we are doing in class when she has one.
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Post by gypsymama on Jan 31, 2015 14:26:54 GMT
the only one i have is full of things about custody battles, from when i went through one this summer.
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Post by bklyngal62 on Jan 31, 2015 14:42:20 GMT
I have one for gift ideas for my husband and family and another for personal things I want to read.
cakediva..I love your challenge idea !
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Post by mjmone on Jan 31, 2015 17:30:51 GMT
sharing a secret board for planning a baby shower for dd, we don't want her to know the 'theme' and a paleo board with dd and ddil, ddil did not want to publicize that we are thinking paleo...as she did not want the comments/questions.
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Post by quinlove on Jan 31, 2015 17:53:44 GMT
It's secret. I love it. ha
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2015 19:10:36 GMT
I also use my secret boards to pin without it showing up in my friends news feeds. So say I love something but don't necessarily want all my friends to see it, I pin it to a secret board and then move it to the related board. That way it's still in one of my public boards where it belongs but didn't have to show up in everyone's feed. Ooooh, how stealthy of you. I'll be using that.
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Post by JoP on Jan 31, 2015 20:26:43 GMT
I'm not on Pinterest - should I be?
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Post by alittleintrepid on Feb 1, 2015 10:46:58 GMT
I'm not on Pinterest - should I be? Yes! But be prepared to waste a bunch of time looking at crafts, or home decor, or recipes....or whatever else you can think of!
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Post by mallie on Feb 1, 2015 13:35:10 GMT
I use them for gifts, saving tips, blogging info (even tho I don't blog ha!), etc. One of my friends is vehemently against secrets boards and feels the point of pinterest is to share ideas not to hide them. I swear you'd think I was stealing things off the internet the way she reacted to it. Ha!! I use a secret board for gift ideas for my kids. What cracks me up are the folks who think there are "rules' to pinterest. Like you must share or, in contrast, you must only pin 5 (or whatever the magic number is) pins per day from their board or you're a "board stealer" (Or those crazy people who call it 'raping' when you re-pin a bunch). I had some BSC woman send me a message that she was blocking me from all her boards because I had "violated the rules of Pinterest by pinning 10 pins from X board and that is STEALING! You are a THIEF of my intellectual property!" What a nutjob. I messaged her back and told her if she didn't want to share stuff, then make her board secret. No freaking way am I going to keep track of how many pins I make from someone's board in a day. I feel like she has a vision of the eager masses acting like Tiny Tim, holding up my Pinterest board, asking for "More pins, please, sir. More pins..."
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Post by theshyone on Feb 1, 2015 13:57:39 GMT
I have a few: 50 Shades - is my obscenely hot sexy men I drool over
Gift ideas for people, family,
Depression: as I don't want people thinking I'm going to off myself if numerous pins show in feeds on the subject
Death experiences - it's such a touchy subject and can cause controversy.
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Post by JoP on Feb 1, 2015 14:55:00 GMT
I'm not on Pinterest - should I be? Yes! But be prepared to waste a bunch of time looking at crafts, or home decor, or recipes....or whatever else you can think of! Hmmmmm I'm sorely tempted
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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 1, 2015 17:35:01 GMT
I barely pin, but your lists have given me some ideas how it can be useful. I've been afraid it was a rabbit hole I might never crawl out of if I started.
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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 1, 2015 17:36:54 GMT
mallie lol maybe I don't want to start pinning. That sounds crazy!
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Post by mallie on Feb 1, 2015 19:12:34 GMT
mallie lol maybe I don't want to start pinning. That sounds crazy! Oh she's the exception. I have over 20K pins and only ever personally encountered a crazy person once. In fAct, aside from friends and family, she's the only stranger I've dealt with on Pinterest. It doesn't have to be sociAl at all.
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Post by chaosisapony on Feb 1, 2015 19:15:58 GMT
I have two secret boards. One I used this past Christmas to pin ideas for gifts I was planning on making. I was going to make sugar scrubs but I wanted a variety of recipes so I pinned them all there that way no one would have their feed flooded by tons of sugar scrub pins and people wouldn't know I was making them for Christmas. I actually wound up never making any, but that's not the point. The other board I used when I was planning a bridal shower and bachelorette party. The bride was very active on Pinterest and I didn't want her to see all of the decorations we were planning.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Feb 1, 2015 19:20:58 GMT
My secret board is Christian devotional type things or Christian articles on things I'm struggling with right now. It's not for public consumption and I don't want my 19yo DD to see what I"m struggling with.
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Post by gillyp on Feb 1, 2015 21:34:08 GMT
Yes! But be prepared to waste a bunch of time looking at crafts, or home decor, or recipes....or whatever else you can think of! Hmmmmm I'm sorely tempted Do it! Do it! I only joined last year as I was fed up with links and notes and bits and bobs all over my computer of things I wanted to maybe look at in the future and I find Pinterest so useful for storing those but I don't have time to be looking at other boards so I keep away from them for now. I have no idea what people mean when they talk about news feed on Pinterest. Can someone enlighten me please?
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Post by MorningPerson on Feb 1, 2015 22:27:03 GMT
I have no idea what people mean when they talk about news feed on Pinterest. Can someone enlighten me please? When you sign on to your Pinterest account, on the upper right hand corner is a symbol to the right of your name. If you click on it it shows 3 options - News, You and Messages. I hardly ever look at the News option - basically it shows what those you're following are pinning, what they're liking, what new boards they're creating etc. If you click on the You option, it shows what new followers you have, and what people are pinning from your boards. And the Message option is kind of cool. If I see a pin that reminds me of someone, I can send the pin to that person with a message. I just keep mine on the You option, and I don't have to see the News part.
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Post by gillyp on Feb 1, 2015 22:38:16 GMT
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Post by scrapaddie on Feb 2, 2015 1:06:26 GMT
Mine is so secret that even I don't know what's on it!
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