For how long have you kept bus tickets?

I especially like when the bus driver plays along with it. The boys want to show them their ticket too, so he takes something to write and puts a signature on it. They love it when that happens. Of course I take the bus quite often so the bus drivers know me and the children and they know what to do.

I really enjoyed your story about your bus tickets. It's funny that the bus driver plays along. I imagine the smile on your kids faces when the bus driver would acknowledge their bus tickets.

haha! That is a very nice reason for keeping bus tickets. That way you really have use for used tickets. Kids always want to have something that grown ups do have, and you have found a nice way of dealing with them. We'll just have to wait until they discover that the tickets they are holding are the used ones. But in that time, maybe they don't like having the tickets anymore. That would be something to tell your kids when they have grown up. Have a nice day!

Those older tickets were the first trips I took out of the Islands so yes they are special to me. Usually I keep the ones that it was my first time to that country. Funny though, I have never kept concert tickets. I know a lot people that do! Have a great day!

Hi cyberfluf, I like the idea of the students tickets. I wish we also have that in our place. However, we don't have a lot of trains here. We don't have one in our province. So I think we can't make use of it. I like the idea that it inspires students to reach for their diploma so that they won't have to pay for their rides.

It's great way, we also get something like a scolarship which every student has a right to claim during 4 years. How high it is depends on what your parents earn. This way they try to make education reachable for everyone. This scolarship-idea thing is a loan that you need to pay at the end of your education, but if you finish within 4 years it's a gift. If you need more years to study your loan will be the number of year minus 4. Most educations are 4 years and if there are 6 there are always ways to get more money (even though that will be a loan and stay a loan). Lots of students over here aren't satisfied with the amount of money they get or the student card (which actually also allows you to go on buses, metro and stuff, I forgot to say in my last post). I guess they don't realise how lucky they are; there are lots of people who don't have this privilege.

hehe not much. my mama kasi sells used paper na assorted, i think piso or 2 pesos per kilo. lol

I got my tickets when I travel from Batangas to Manila and back again when I visit my girlfriend. She works in Manila. Before, I go to Manila every once a week, so that's two tickets in my bag. So in a month, I have 8. I don't keep receipts now. I also used to keep them in my wallet but I found out that I have no use for them in my wallet. You really have sold them? Then they should be a lot!

Maybe it's time to implement the card system, so that it can help in stabalising the bus fares.. hehe

I hope we would have the use of cards soon here in our country. But we use cards in trains. the price of riding buses keep increasing as the price of oil also increase. And most of our buses are nearly over-depreciated. But there are a lot new buses coming out now but still they don't use card system.

The new ticketing system with the palm top and mini printer is really cool. And you know what, most of the ordinary buses have it while those with aircon bus and the new bus companies are the ones who still use the perforated tickets. Have a nice day!

At times, I hate seeing folded tickets in the back of the seats. I think the conductor would have a hard time cleaning them. What I do is I don't fold the tickets and I just leave them in my seat where it can easily be seen by the conductor and can easily be cleaned. I hope that helped the conductor.

I also have lots of receipts in my bag. I know they won't be inspected but I always keep some of them with big amounts in case there should be something to be returned. But now I try not to keep to many of them because my bag look cluttered with them and sometimes my bag would look like a trash bin. Have a nice day!

I should be a nice collection if you hadn't lost them. they would compare to something like stamp collections and maybe would amount to something some other time when bus tickets would be out of date (like the value of antiques these days).

I also do that now. I hate seeing my bag full of tickets that have no use at all. Before when I it was my first times riding the bus, I keep the tickets for a long time because I find it amusing that I know how to read a bus ticket (the ones with holes in it). But now I am not amused with it anymore. As much as possible, I now try to leave them in the bus.

In your case, you purposefully kept the bus ticket as a remembrance. I also do that sometimes but most of the bus tickets that I kept for remembrance were lost. I don't know but maybe I have thrown them without me knowing it. Thanks for responding!

At times I am guilty of leaving the tickets in the bus. But I don't do what others are doing -- they are folding the ticket and then sticking it to the seat's back. I leave the ticket in the seat, where the conductor can see it so that it would not be hard to clean the bus. hehe