Stickers!!!!!! (Squee)

October 5, 2016 4:27 PM

Where (preferably online) can I buy the very best and most motivating stickers?

In a discussion with my career coach, I mentioned offhandedly that I should award myself a sticker on my calendar if I get my language study and dissertation research done every day. I was mostly joking, but I keep thinking about it and I really want some stickers, man. And Amazon/Google have not been super helpful, surprisingly!

Wants:
- Multiple different sticker designs on one page, so that I can get excited about giving myself a different sticker each day. A pack with several sheets of the same page of varied stickers is ok.
- Weird and/or quirky is great! Hipster ironic is good. Since this is partially for language study achievements, any stickers with Chinese characters or Chinese emojis/memes are a plus.
- Prefer to buy online, but if you tell me that I can get what I want by stopping in at Michaels, I'd like to know that too.


So, AskMe, where do I buy some motivating stickers?

posted by chainsofreedom to Shopping (9 answers total)

Etsy is your friend for this kind of thing. All kinds of "adulting reward stickers" and the like. Some very clever people there.
posted by not that girl at 4:33 PM on October 5, 2016

Mochi Things has some cute stickers. Also adorable sticky tabs, if you have any need for sticky tabs.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 4:45 PM on October 5, 2016

Any educational supply website will have a lot of these, and Oriental Trading also has a ton. They are mostly not intentionally ironic and I didn't see any in Chinese, but who wouldn't be chuffed to award themselves the "I was caught being good!" sticker or placing a "SUPER!" sticker on their completed homework?
posted by The Elusive Architeuthis at 4:47 PM on October 5, 2016

You can get what you want by stopping in at Michaels, or A.C. Moore, or possibly even Staples (Staples has a lot of stuff for teachers, including stickers and other fun stuff). Michaels has a very lovely sticker selection, or at least they did last time I checked (>1 year ago)

However, if you want to look around, there are some fun arty ones at Pomegranate Press.
posted by amtho at 4:54 PM on October 5, 2016

Best answer: Oh, I am seriously considering Pipsticks subscription myself. I found them via this thread on the blue about planner decoration!
posted by jrobin276 at 5:18 PM on October 5, 2016 [2 favorites]

Look for stores that cater to scrapbooking or planner accessories. Etsy sellers I like for adorable stickers are pikwahchan and PokemonGarden.

I also very recently found sparkly poop emoji stickers at Michaels near the checkout. Michaels has been a really good source of small inexpensive fun things in recent years.
posted by Metroid Baby at 3:53 AM on October 6, 2016

Don't dismiss stars. Any office supply store will have lovely, sparkly stars that read well from across the room.
posted by theora55 at 7:11 AM on October 6, 2016

Target sometimes has cute stickers in their dollar section. Recently I saw Halloween stickers, and autumn ones with cute foxes etc that I was tempted by.
posted by Squeak Attack at 7:40 AM on October 6, 2016

Response by poster: Thank you, thank you! I just got my first Pipsticks subscription today, and omg LAKfsdvna;ogwoigaejnvalejghowar stickers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by chainsofreedom at 2:46 PM on October 18, 2016 [2 favorites]