Comments on: benefit #11 – easier souvenir shopping

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:03:02 +0000

I heard of a local woman who passed away… instead of souvenirs she asked her family to bring a little bit of the earth from where they visited… when she died she had an extensive collection ranging from the World Trade Center site to The Great Wall of China. Someone in her family inherited her collection and now it’s on display at the local museum. I just thought this was an awesome way to remember trips (although I’d have to figure out a way to make it on a smaller scale). How neat and beautiful is our earth?

By: Pierre-Marc

Pierre-Marc — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:32:48 +0000

We settled that our souvenirs is a christmas tree ornaments, they don’t add clutter to your home, you pick them out once a year, so you have a chance to remember all the trip you made.

By: Sharmaine

Sharmaine — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:27:17 +0000

What great ideas! I think I might go one further and only take photos of the things I like. With most things digital now, I won’t even need to find a place to store the memories. We can just create a folder on the computer for our holiday memories.

By: Calen Rubin

Calen Rubin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:07:41 +0000

I agree with Jodi; a picture postcard is the way to go! After college, I lived in England for six months and traveled extensively throughout the U.K. and Ireland during those six months. I realized that if I bought a souvenir at each place, I’d have to rent a barge to ship them all back to the States! A postcard, for me, is a great visual reminder of my trip and it’s small enough to carry without trouble.

By: jodi peterson

jodi peterson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:39:07 +0000

I’ve discovered that a great and inexpensive souvenir is a picture postcard or two. The picture is probably better than you can take with your own camera, and you can write on the whole back of it what you did that day, what you thought of the experience, etc.

By: BenQ

BenQ — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:46:56 +0000

I was recently traveling in LA and going through many crazy outdoor markets. They weren’t really geared towards tourists, but nevertheless, the idea of buying something just to have “from my seems like such a painful burden to carry around!

It truly is more just walking through these areas and absorbing the experience; the smell in the air, the languages around you, the odd items for sale, the funny sales men, the shoppers, locals, and tourists. This is what I want to “keep”.

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By: Tybee

Tybee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:56:23 +0000

While backpacking through Europe on our honeymoon, we accidently started a wonderful habit for limiting souvenir junk. We found that refrigerator magnets were small and meaningful memorabilia. I know many people don’t like the visual mess of refrigerator magnets, but one friend of mine keeps all of his on the downstairs freezer. In a relatively small surface, we can smile and remember many fabulous trips.