Travel Memorabilia

I have one of those portable file boxes that I store that stuff in. Now I definitely don't save as much as I used to and I do toss whatever doesn't get scrapbooked. Still it all adds up doesn't it?!?!

I keep tickets, brochures, receipts, and the small guides you often get at heritage places. I almost never keep plane tickets as I rarely take photos of us on the plane and don't usually scrap this part of any trip we take.

I was guilty of sticking everything in a bag or box and just leaving it there untouched, but I've found my current system really works for getting ephemera into my albums. I loosely plan out my travel albums, print the photos and put them into the album where I think they will go. If I have memorabilia for that location I add it to the page protector as well. When I come to scrap the stories if the ephemera doesn't get used on the page it goes in the bin. This has really helped me keep my ephemera under control, and I often find that something I thought was important in the high of traveling is just not important enough to keep in my album.

Small hijack - I am looking to purchase one of these boxes (can't find them online anymore) if anyone has one that is collecting dust in their space.

I like your process Chinagirl828! Right now, I have my travel memorabilia sorted by trip in Iris containers with pieces of paper separating it chronologically/by location. Unfortunately, this means that I have to check this bin when I go to scrapbook my photos or things get left out. I LOVE including memorabilia in my scrapbooks, so I definitely keep a lot.

I am still working on some photos from the last big trip I took, and many of them have gotten to be out of order, so what I need to do is sit down with my journaling (which I did at the time of the trip), my laptop (which has the photo files), the printed photos, and my box of ephemera to decide exactly what layouts are missing and then put everything I need for them in a page protector. If I was really ambitious, I would also make page kits at the same time, but I probably shouldn't over commit at this point

I only keep it if I know for sure I am going to scrapbook it or if it would be useful as reference in the future. I have a file, sorted by year in which I keep all memorabilia, not just travel. If it's a big trip, I will keep in an envelope too, similar to yours. I've been better about being choosy with what I keep. For my larger trips, I tend to make a digital photo book album, so sometimes I will keep a traveler's notebook or mini album with memorabilia as I go thru the trip or put one together after to accompany the photo book. I've also gone thru and just stuck things in divided page protectors, like the 12 4x4 squares is good, or even with a lot of 3x4 pockets. That way it's all there and when the pages get done it can accompany it. A lot of times I only use small parts of the memorabilia, so maybe you can go thru and punch circles from it or cut it down to photo mat sizes, etc. Like a brochure I may want the cover, but don't need the rest, then just recycle it. I think it just helps to be realistic about what you are actually going to scrapbook and want to use, then the rest can go & clear up space.

I generally keep it in the iris box or similar that I collect the photos and any paper/embellishments that were purchased for that trip. Once I've scrapped, whatever didn't make the cut for the album is tossed. I find I'm more likely to use brochures etc...to help me journal than to actually put on the page. Tickets that are decorative often become embellishments but receipts and boring tickets not so much. Postcards I often include when I wasn't able to get a photo or my photo sucked.

I love flatlays of memorabilia. One large photo in your project and boom, done. You get a view of public transportation tickets, museum tickets, half-folded out city map, café bills and even local stamp if you sent postcards during your travel.

The only travel memorabilia I cling to and patiently add is the Disneyland Paris programmes I pick up when I visit the park. The rest is generally good for the recycle bin after a little photo session.

I still have 2002-2008 to scrap. I have allowed myself photos and one 9 x 12 envelope for each year not scrapped. They contain travel, larger pictures, and my kids' school stuff I might use. They are all in an IRIS bin. I just finished a travel album for 2019 and if I didn't put it in the book, it got tossed.

No, not wrong, but it makes this art teacher's heart hurt a little.

Also, I was cleaning out the kid's room (they are teenagers) and I found cartoons the 18 year old drew when he was little. He often made a comic with a unicorn and Mr. Cheese (a piece of cheese with eyes and legs). I was a bit verklempt. They aren't little very long.

I love using travel memorabilia in my scrapbooks, and travel scrapbooks are my favorite kind to make. What I use to organize memorabilia is an accordion file, and I especially love the discontinued Creative Memories File Mates that are black and I think are sized 11" x 13".  Before I leave home I label the tops of the tabs by the dates of the trip and I fill the slots with information needed for the dates-like accommodation info and rental car info would go in the first slot, and so on. As those slots are emptied I feel those dated slots with the memorabilia I've collected for each day on the trip-each day's memorabilia goes into that day's slot in the accordion file. 

When I get home I label the outside of the file (there's a plastic opening for that) with the name of the trip and the date. Then when I'm ready to scrap that trip all of my memorabilia is organized by the days of the trip and I have my photos organized as well by the days I took them-my camera labels the files by dates. I'm all organized and set to go. It makes it so much easier and less to think about and stress over-my creativity can flow. In my scrapbook closet I have my file mates all lined up ready to be scrapped. 

    Great! I buy my CM Travel Mates on Ebay since they are currently discontinued. Be sure to ask for the size before you buy one. The kind I use are black and they are 13" long and 11" tall. They used to be sold with archival white folders that fit into the slots but I don't use them when I travel (or at all really) since they add so much weight.