Amy

Everyone:

What methods do you use to preserve your vacation/travel memories: journals, photos, memory books, etc.

Tricia

Hi Amy,
Look into making a scrapbook.
I made one of my family's summer vacation. It was fun to make. I journaled for each day, chose the best pictures & it came out excellent!!
I included facts and a bit of history about each place we visited, what we liked best, etc.
I've also made framed collages of past trips and grouped them together in our rec room.
If you choose to scrapbook, make sure you use acid & lignin free supplies.
BTW, I learned about the option of scrapbooking from this exact site. People here have great suggestions!

Jen

We just never get it together to scrapbook; I admire those with the time, energy, and artistic talent to do so!

I just set up a magazine file box for each place we visit. In goes everything -- maps, brochures, souvenir ticket stubs, photo envelopes straight from the developer, postcards that are better quality than any photo we could take. It's not very organized, but at least it's accessible and we know where it all is! Also, this way we don't have to pick and choose, we can save pretty much everything. I sometimes use the little bags that postcards come in to gather things together on a theme -- restaurants, museums, a specific town, etc..

gc

We save stuff in boxes, file folders, etc. The unorganized route we take guarantees that we will be surprised by the memory of a trip nearly every day when we stumble on yet another thing we've mis-filed...8^)
My wife's been trying to throw away the helmets from the Hoover Dam tour...but after Sept. 11 it, sadly, appears they may become collector's items.
One neat thing we have done for my son is to get a shot glass from every place we've been (or I've been on business). Yeah, I know it's tacky, but he can hold up 30 or 40 of these things, describe where it is, what it is, and give some anecdotal description of the place.

evelyntrav

I have a wall of framed 8"x12" photographs, the best one or two from each vacation. This is in additon to photo albums.

Lois

For the first time, this year I've started keeping a journal of my trips. I found it suprising how much I'd forgotten upon arrival back home, as I read through the daily summary I wrote. I'm glad I did it for San Francisco and Hawaii, and I intend to do the same when we head to Australia and New Zealand this winter. We also discovered how convenient and wonderful a digital camera can be for extended trips. You can take as many pictures as you wish, and then when home, just chose the best to develop, and save the rest on a disk if you wish. Although I'd heard how expensive these pictures are to develop, I took mine to PriceCostco and they cost me 20 cents per picture! And, I've got some great shots to remember the trip with!

Amy

Thank you for the good ideas-going to Florida in Dec.

Rose

Like Tricia, I do something of a scrapbook/photo album. We often cut photos with unwanted "extras." When we snorkel, for example, we'll take photos of fish, then cut out some boring backgrounds.
We also save brochures to cut apart to add tidbits of info so that anyone who picks up the book will know what they're looking at. Sometimes even something as silly as a restuarant napkin or menu or receipt can be fun to put in. It helps us remember,too! I often start the book with departure airline stubs.
I enjoy doing these books, especially since our kids like to take them out from time to time and browse through them. And so do the Dad & I!

xxx

If I even remember to get a disposable camera, it usually lays around my house for several years before I remember to get it developed. I collect silver bangles from each place I visit. I also usually buy a piece of artwork for my house from wherever I visit.

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