Collecting souvenirs from my trips!

It is natural that man would like to keep souvenirs of the country which he visited , to remember the days spent in this country .. He may not visit this country again

I used to collect all souvenirs from my trips including my tickets...but since i moved a lots, i lost it all...and now i just have 3 luggage of clothes and my important documents only. I may move again so that i can't keep many things. it is a reason why i wish i have enough money to buy a house, and then i can keep all things i got after every trip...

I had a friend who used to buy T-shirts for the children and let them wear them and when they outgrew them she saved them and made a quilt to give then when they graduated from High School. They enjoyed the useful souvenier and had a life time memory of their youth.

I love to travel to different countries in the world. At the very least I buy some postcards which I place in special looking albums when I get back home. I have kept some bank notes and coins. The most interesting has been a triangular coin and a 3 dollar note from the Cook Islands. Wow! I always look around and try very hard to get a costume doll for my collection. I got a wooden doll in Romania and a family of bead dolls in South Africa. I sometimes buy fridge magnets. They are cheap, light weight and don't take up much space in my luggage. I love to keep happy travel memories. My costume dolls are in my glass door book case. My magnets are on my fridge door in my kitchen. I am very keen on buying those types of souvenirs.

I agree with you. I always bring something from my trips, no matter how small it is. Many times I also bring souvenirs to my smaller grandchildren. We used to buy bigger things, but after some time we discovered that we were full of knicks and kncks from everywhere. I had, among other things, a doll collection from every place that my husband had been when he was a soccer player. After a while, we started or mug collection. And then, easier, I started buying T shirts when I became a widow and started traveling alone. Now I even buy keyrings, and magnets for a dollar if I don´t have more money.

I don't like collecting souvenirs from my trips.I think it's just waste my money.I prefer spend my money to give for poor people in my place trips.sometimes i collect my photo in my place trips.and the important think is bring my family to feel happy together.My favorite place to bring my family is the zoo.and my favorite animal is give a hug for monkey.

I purchase souvenirs sometimes from the different places that I visit; however I do not just buy anything, I usually try to buy something that either will have some kind of use to me or something that won't just take up space in my home. I have seen places where people have too many knick-knacks around the house and it can be more clutter than anything. For example, a lot of times I will purchase shot glasses. When I have friends over or am entertaining at my place I will use these for shots for people having drinks. They do not just sit there on a shelf to be displayed because I just don't really have the space to be doing that with these little things. Or perhaps I will bring back candy or something else that will allow me to eat it, enjoy it, but not have it create a clutter in my home. I think the biggest things for me are pictures and/or memories. Those are always good for me because they can remind me of a trip without being too cumbersome to have around the house.

That's a good hobby. I also do that, as much as possible I also buy souvenirs every time I visit a new place. Of course, aside from things that I bought, I always make sure that I have taken pictures from that place. It's almost a must to bring camera all the time when you are travelling or going to new places. Good day!

I think that it is just normal to buy souvenir items everytime we go to other places. In fact I even kept the parking tickets of all my travels. But later on, I no longer buy that much since everytime a friend or a colleague will travel, they usually have something for me. I don't know how many keychains I received from friends, mostly from Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore. I took photos. A lot of them, then I would post them on fb. That way, I could also share to my experiences with my relatives and friends.

Yes, where ever you go you need to get some souvnir. I like to collect some unique souvenir

I don't think it's weird. I also love collecting souvenirs from my trips (including tickets and maps too!). I always think that when I grow old, looking at the souvenirs I've collected through the years would bring back lots of good memories.:) I don't want to forget the places I've visited so these souvenirs are there to remind me of them. I put some of my souvenirs on my bookshelves and they look really nice. They make my home look cozy.

Like you , I love collecting some souvenirs from the places that I visit. I usually collected native dolls and snow balls in every country that I visited. But locally I collected key chains, T-shirts and pictures which serves as very memorable items. I feel very happy when I see all my collections because its always reminded me of the wonderful vacations and travelled that I had.

No, this is not strange at all. Many people do the same.Even I collect souvenirs whenever I visit a new place.

it this to be nice if we collecting all the souvenirs. it would be own pride have all the souvenirs. Someday, it can make money from this souvenirs. Especially if the souvenirs become rare. I think it is a good hobbies.

i don't travel much but when i was a kid, we used to travel a lot because i was an only child and my dad had a good job. i bought charms from all the places we visited for a charm bracelet that i still have but don't wear much.

I usually buy some souvenirs when I travel. I try to find some things that I can use in the house for instance mugs with pictures from the places that I have visited or a calendar with pictures from my destination. I collect pop and rock music from around the world and when I visit another country I usually buy some cds. I have found some nice music that way, and it would have been impossible to buy those cds in my own country. In past I also bought lots of postcards when I visited a new place. Today I don't have a postcard collection anymore, but I love to take pictures of the places that I visit and I keep all of those pictures in my photoalbums. Like you I keep the city maps from the places I have visited. Sometimes I am able to recycle them when I visit the same place again and they are a nice memory from my trip.

I agree with you. I always bring something from my trips, no matter how small it is. Many times I also bring souvenirs to my smaller grandchildren. We used to buy bigger things, but after some time we discovered that we were full of knicks and kncks from everywhere. I had, among other things, a doll collection from every place that my husband had been when he was a soccer player. After a while, we started or mug collection. And then, easier, I started buying T shirts when I became a widow and started traveling alone. Now I even buy keyrings, and magnets for a dollar if I don´t have more money.

hello besweet! It is never strange to me at all. While I was reading your post, I can even imagine myself as you, because that is so similar to what I'm doing every time I have trips.I think it is normal to buy souvenirs to places that you've been, and almost every tourist do that. Aside from souvenirs, I also take a lot of pictures, because those are very different from souvenirs, those pictures are priceless. I also do keeping of tickets, passes, maps, guides, and all those stuffs that I can keep to remind me of my trip to that certain place.

Collecting souvenirs from trips has always been my habit.Keyrings,food,there're so many things I really enjoy bringing them home.I still remember my trip to Macau,a city that is famous for gambling.I don't enter those casino.Instead,I went to some local stores and buy some representative things like chinese rings,dumplings..it's delicious