Comments on: How Do You Save Memories from Your Travels?

By: Pop

Pop — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:57:09 +0000

For us, it’s mostly Christmas ornaments. We usually find something that screams the place’s name and latch onto it. That’s one reason you have so many ornaments! For us, it’s no one thing, really, though; we’re too eclectic. That’s why all our stuff has a story, and why I resist severing connections with so many things.

Pop

By: Misty

Misty — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:33:19 +0000

Pictures are pretty much a given. We all need those to jog our memories. And now that I have a website to post them on and look at here, I don’t have to mess with putting all those albums together. Bonus!

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:30:23 +0000

I am a picture maniac. That’s how I remember my trips. If I really love something, I take a picture of it. Although this summer I did buy some jewelry in Hawaii… Maybe I can start that as another way of remembering.

We are really looking forward to you guys coming out! If you want to pick up native jewelry out here, that won’t be a problem.

By: Joyous

Joyous — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:37:30 +0000

As you may have noticed, I take *lots* of pictures. I used to scrapbook them into those magnetic photo albums w/ the sticky pages, but it was so time consuming, and now with digital photos being so much cheaper than printing…it’s all web-based now. I’ve also taken to blogging as I go–I do my best travel writing if I don’t have to save it all up to remember when I get back.

I’ve also started doing the jewelry thing–earrings or a necklace or something, if I’m in a place known for something in particular.

Lessee…xmas ornaments, definitely, although I often will buy some random tchotchke and turn it into an ornament, rather than getting something intentionally sold as one.

I used to get t-shirts, but I just don’t wear them very often, and the stack was getting silly. Ditto on postcards–I have this *immense* postcard collection and no place to tack them up.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:50:40 +0000

I always forget about Boskone. Thanks for the reminder!

By: duchess

duchess — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:21:03 +0000

I always buy a postcard on my travels, write in it, stamp it, and then SEND IT TO MYSELF. This way, I get a stamp, a postmark, and best of all, the prettiest postcard I find is mine!

I like to save newspapers, too, but right now I have a pile of newspapers that really need to be stored or something, so I will stop collecting papers, I think.

We’ve started the squished penny thing recently, and we may just keep up with it. It’s easy.

Most of our memories are tied into photos (or a single photo, as some trips have been).

By: dmk

dmk — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:14:33 +0000

Boston in February? Which towns? Do you know about Boskone (http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/)?

By: Misty

Misty — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:35:05 +0000

I do like postcards too. I guess I get them sometimes as well. Ornaments are good for gifting to others. We have so many ornaments now we could decorate 3 trees.

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:46:09 +0000

I usually buy a Christmas ornament for my mother. This year, I actually got one for myself the first time. I might just continue this…

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:40:12 +0000

I like getting jewelry on my trips too. Also, postcards. I love post cards. I have a hard rock shirt collection too. So a little bit of all of that! I’ve only got one squished penny though from a trip to Gatlinburg when I was a kid. I got one from the Ripley’s Believe it or Not there.