Vacation scrapbooking question

Photos of Signs: road signs, billboards, venues, sand markings, directions, mile markers, state signs, etc

Sometimes wrappings but only if they are relevant and pretty. Didn’t started the teen of having wrappings & tags that look like ephemera but I find it many places now.

I want to keep those little museum buttons but they sometimes want them back, so I only keep them when they don’t ask for them back

This might be a little specific, but for national parks, brochures. I have cut out information that I found particularly interesting, or info on wildlife, etc. Park maps. Landmarks. Tickets/passes.

I also go online and will pull info from the places we go websites for details and info, history or even better photos or missed photos for my pages.

Room keys! ie: Universal Studios your ticket is your room key if you stay on property.

So many great ideas here!! Similar to getting postcards, I also like to get some postage stamps if I have the opportunity in another country or if there are stamps that you can only get in a certain place. For instance, I bought postage stamps at The Vatican since they have their own tiny post office. I also bought special Harry Potter postage stamps at Universal Studios that are only available there. I include the stamps in my scrapbooks.

Boarding passes, airline logos, venue logos either on line or on brochures.

I take a photo of the site map at resorts so I can use that on a page.

A fridge magnet can make a nice page embellishment.

When we did our big family trip to Hawaii and San Francisco from Australia I took photos of signs - especially the prices of petrol on petrol stations and distance signs on the roads. We were absolutely fascinated by all the fractions!!!!!!Made for a great layout or two!
Metric is so much easier

All phones and I assume newer cameras (my really old one did) will store the date in the metadata and many even automatically make it part of the file name such as
20201013200915
YYYYMMDDHrMinSec

I've had issues with Daylight Savings messing up my photos because I'm usually using pictures from my DSLR and multiple cell phones. If the time is off on my DSLR and I combine all of my photos on my computer, they are out of order (and then add in time zone difference because you are across the river from Canada & one cell phone in the group picks up the Canadian signal...yah real fun!) Unfortunately I never think to check the time on my camera...

As for the original question...I save everything that might look cool in my album or has information that might help in creating my album. I generally sort through things once or twice before making the album so I'm not trying to add too much.

I take pictures of information signs that will help identify things later on (especially at museums, etc).

On multi-state road trips I always have a camera ready to take pictures as we drive--state signs, highway signs, views of rivers as we drive over a bridge, skylines. Sometimes the trip is so much a part of the story in the album that want to document it. Plus it helps with timing information.

I like to pick up brochures for places that can generally be found in hotel lobbies or an entrances of touristy places. Some times I use them in the album, other times just for information later on.

If a food place offers paper or to-go menus i will grab those. Sometimes I even grab rewards/punch cards, even if we're eating there just the one time. Along the same line, sometimes I grab business cards if they feature the business more than a person.

Some other items that I've used beside what you have listed:

post cards (sometimes I put them in a pocket page)
pictures of unusual signs, menus, etc.
stamps and coins from other countries ( I used them for embellishments)
napkin or coaster from restaurant (made a copy of the napkin on cardstock)
small shells, sand, rocks
swizzle sticks from drinks
salt, pepper, and sugar packets that have restaurant name on it (I empty the contains and just use the packet)
ribbon lanyards that have printed locations on them
cruise card
medals received on cruise

I copied the logo from one shopping bag and made my own die cut.

I have copied maps and marked the route that we took.

You can't collect rocks, sand, or shells at national parks, but I use rocks from the jewelry department that look like the rocks in my pictures.

I frequently make a pocket or pocket page for brochures.  

I do this as well! I always look for beautiful postcards.


Sometimes, I'll use the envelope and put some pull out journaling in there!

This is so Asia specific, but in Japan and also Taiwan, some places have a rubber stamp station at different tourist attractions (or in Japan, train stations). I have actually found a couple of rubber stamp stations in the U.S., like at a national park ranger station. I found another at a lighthouse. I'll stamp a clean piece of paper and then cut it out for my scrapbook.

I also like saving bags from stores, if there is something beautiful or specific about them.