How much did you spend on your PE license frame?

[Jacob_PE]

Some of the guys at work tell me they dropped over $200 on their nice license frames/matting. How much did you spend? / How much do you intend to spend?

 

[mudpuppy]

My 11x14 certificate plus frame was right around $200. My mom paid for it since she never bought me a gift for graduating grad school.

 

[willsee]

Nothing.

I only have the 8.5x11 printout from Illinois that also includes my wallet card.

 

[chemicalpe]

$200.00??????? I have not recieved my certificate but will in next few days. I was thinking may be $20-$30.00 for the frame!!!!

 

[OSUguy98]

I think it was something like $150 (professionally framed,etc)... my mom bought it for me... close match to the frame for my diploma

 

[FF8256]

I think I spent around $50-75. If you think about it though... what's $200 in the grand scheme of things involved with that license? That's one damn expensive piece of paper we have.

 

[Jukka Brothers]

$15 @ Wal-Mart

 

[sc57]

$30.00 from Marshall's.

 

[R2KBA]

If anyone has come up with an affordable setup that allows for both the certificate and the pencil to be placed in the frame, please let me know. So far I have been looking into graduations frames that have room for a tassel, but I'd really like to have the pencil oriented horizontally in the frame. It's a tough choice, though, because while it was horizontal as I entered the testing site, I often laid it vertically while I thumbed through reference material.

 

[Boomer01 PE]

$10

 

[bradlelf]

That really depends. In the states in which I have licenses, they all require that the physical license be displayed in my office. So, I have all of those thumb tacked to a cork board.

The embossed license certificates that they send a few months later I have hanging in my house with nice frames and matting. I think the frames and matting were like $100-150 at Michaels. They typically run 50% off sales two or three times a year ... time your order correctly for some big savings.

 

[goodal]

I had my first license matted and framed but it was still less han ~$80. I have had my wife buy several matching frames for future licenses, certifications, etc. I now have several on one of my walls and they all match (unlike most other license walls I've seen).

 

[Road Guy]

$15 or $20 bucks, cheapest frame I could find at Target...

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

My last company framed both of mine. The original sits in some Office Depot brand frame that cost ~$30. The duplicate was professionally mounted to match the rest of the company's licenses. I think that one was ~$150. Instead of a frame, it was attached to a solid walnut board, had some decorative gold flaking put around it, and a thick layer of polyurethane over the top of it. I think it's spent the last 1.5 years in a box somewhere in the basement, while the original sits on my desk (still in the cheapo frame).

 

[maryannette]

I think mine was over $200. I had no problem paying that to display something I'm very proud of.

 

[Exception Collection]

Nothing; the company I work for had purchased larger frames that can hold 3-4 certificates each. When I leave, I'll probably get a decent but not incredible one.

 

[FLBuff PE]

About tree-fiddy.

 

[pbrme]

About tree-fiddy.

"Tree-fiddy? Naw gwaddammit woman..."

 

[snickerd3]

Never got a frameable certificate...just the license that gets replaced every 2 yrs. So it is in a cheapo frame with a cheapo matte sitting in a conspicuous location on a file cabinet at work. THe college dipolma is still sitting in the padded book thing they gave us at graduation, like the highschool dipolma.

 

[jeb6294]

My mom dropped a couple hundred getting my college degree framed because it was some goofy size. Ohio's PE certificate is the same way, but since I was paying for this one I just went to Michaels and found one of their nice looking off-the-shelf frames and then had them cut a mat to fit the certificate. It looks like a custom frame but only cost a few $$$. Technically the border is not perfectly symmetrical, but unless you want to measure it you'd never notice.