I’m not a typical souvenir buyer when I travel, but somehow I find myself with weird collections of this-and-thats stuffed in my backpack.
In the mix is a lovely little collection of notes and coins from: New Zealand, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Poland and England. And, this is just what I had in my backpack!
Money is just an easy souvenir to keep from traveling. It’s a pain to try and offload all the little bits when going from place to place, and it is just plain interesting to look at later on.
Some day, I will be able to combine this little collection with what I already have back home consisting of Guatemalan, Mexican, Honduran and Euro money. I’m getting quite the collection, but I’m sure its nothing compared to what other travelers have acquired.
I know the feeling. I have thousands of Dong (Vietnam) in my cupboard still, crying for me to go back one day and spend them. I’ve settled into the habit, over the years, of hanging on to at least one note from wherever I have been. It gets put together with my favourite photograph from a place and ticket stubs, receipts or anything else with a flavour of the place and framed forever. It’s fantastic to wake up to a wall of memories each morning.
Awesome! This and beer bottlecaps (similar idea to the corks thing, I suppose) are the only two souvenirs that I regularly keep from places I’m traveling through. I sift through the cash collection everytime I’m back in the States, and its always an easy way to go back mentally to the places I’ve been.