When I travel I collect whatever I can get my hands on. Things like guidebooks, coasters, plane tickets and post cards live in my carry ons for months, years even, after each and every one of my trips. When I return home though, I almost always let them go to waste. I’m sentimental until my urge to throw away takes over.
As much as I like to chronicle my adventures here on my blog, in a more tangible sense, I’m just not a scrapbooker. The last time I actually documented my travels beyond my blog was in 2004 when I returned home from studying abroad in Ireland. I purchased a white binder – with the intention of making it pretty on the outside – and stuck my little memories between thin films of plastic and cardboard. Today, on the outside, it’s still blank canvass.
And the inside is sort of withering away – partly due to me peeling back the plastic to occasionally scan old memories for my blog, but mostly due to time and unfortunate neglect.
I’m not one to make concrete resolutions, but as we get closer to the New Year, one promise I’d like to make to myself is to be more organized, especially when it comes to documenting my travels.
How do you preserve your travel memories?
wow u’re good, i have a tiny box that’s already so full that it’s falling apart, hmm i guess i’ll have to look into better techniques
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the last time i made a scrapbook was to document my two month trip to germany. however i never even got around to captioning all of it! tisk, tisk! so for now i’ve been using kodak gallery to make photobooks which are pretty great. and then i just sort of make little packs of the keepsakes we want and attach it to the back, seems to be working okay for now.
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Unfortunately I’m just like you, even worse because I don’t blog about it either. My travel memories are kept in my mind until I forget many of them…. :/
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That’s an excellent resolution. I take everything I save and literally throw it in a box.
You could sort of go the Young House Love route– take the best mementos and frame them in a gallery wall…http://www.younghouselove.com/2011/04/its-done-and-we-heart-it/
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i love all the bus eireann tickets & coasters! i did a scrapbook from my study abroad and managed to put most of my maps & tickets in it. But from all my other trips – I have the tickets and momentos in baggies in my scrapbook box. I did at least print photos from my Eurotrip last year and in the back is the envelope of tickets and such. But I wish I was better at not just throwing everything into a box too!
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Mostly digital photos. And we have a couple of shadow boxes up at our house with photos and little mementos.