What to do with your cruise memorabilia

[GottaCruz]

In Gerneral Discussion, sailingrose showed us her great quilt that she made out of her tee shirts from all her cruises.

frostyboy makes windchimes out of his sail and sign cards.

cruisetarp makes magnets out of her sail and sign cards.

These are all fantastic ideas. Can anyone else add to these?

[JoeyandDavid]

no but I can subtract...my mailing address is ............ :grin:

[Longboysfan]

I just take lots of pictures - into the Albam.

I just about give away everything I win on the cruise in the contests.

The sail and sign cards I have a stack of.

But they did not have then when I first started so there are only about 10 or 12 of them.

[sailingrose]

I collect plates from everywhere we go so they hang on our large walls in our livingroom as art. Wonderful reminders of our travels.

[JoeyandDavid]

ahh you a plate collector...do you collect platters too or just plates? .. i bet it is colorful!

[sailingrose]

Usually plates but I do have a few coasters mixed in too. Sometimes you just can't find a special plate.

[hazelson]

Use a "got on a trip" coffes mug every morning - I have about 30 now so one a day for a month lol.

The charms go on my (heavy) charm bracelet. If I get many more I'm going to have to register it as a weapon tee-hee.

The shot glasses we just look at and I dust occassionally.

[cruisetarp]

I guess I am the pack rat here when it comes to cruise memorabilia. Aside from the magnets made from the Sea Passes on the first day on the ship I buy 2 nice big coffee mugs with the ships name on them - (can't take those small cups in the windjammer in the AM). After the cruise we continue to use 1 and the other one gets hung above my kitchen cabinets. The shot glasses we buy go into hubbys bar and the charm from each port goes on my bracelet.

[schatje]

You all have some interesting ideas that I never even thought of. I take digital pictures of everything. I took so many pictures on our last cruise that I ended up with 2,300 (14 days...10 islands)so I had them put on CD's right on the ship. I can edit them at my leisure all winter long. I like to buy postcards as well for the pictures and I also scan them to mix in with my pictures. I will certainly be looking now for other ways to hold on to our memories.