cruise memories by the ream?:)

[Trip]

Do you bring home all the"things" the cruiselines give you while onboard? The daily papers, and, all announcements that the ships give you for this and that? It seems every time you return to the cabin, you have mail

I am one of these people I try to bring home any info that, will help in helping Cruisemates, but, I also collect the slick glossy magazines, that some of the islands put out, like St. Martin....they must cost a fortune!

So, if you bring it all home, do you scrapbook, toss it in a corner, Give it to another cruiser, sailing that ship soon, or just toss it out after a bit?

[Marc]

Trip, the only thing we bring home are the chocolates. We don't eat any of the chocolates during the cruise but bring them home to provide good memories while suffering cruise withdrawal.

[Trip]

We do too..nothing like a pocketful of chocolate to make you smile after the fact

[nlb1050]

I collect the paper things and Bruce collects the chocolate. I do put the things I bring home in a binder. Am running out of room for them so will have to think about going to the larger size and putting more than one cruise per binder. It is a very nice reminder. And if I have written up a report I will put a copy in.

We also will bring home some of the soaps, usually they aer so much nice than what we have at home so when using it is another great reminder.

[hockeynut]

I used to keep everything, but recently threw it all out. It was just way to much stuff and I never looked at it again. I have plenty of pictures for memories.

As for the chocolates...I eat them each night after dinner on the cruise. They're lucky they make it out of the wrapper

[Mike M]

I gave up bringing home the mounds of paper a few cruises ago. I used to bring home the daily newsletters but they now go in the trash at the end of the day.

I also stopped "taking pictures of the food" quite awhile ago. It really detracted from the meal and even I thought it was going too far.

I also stand by the garbage can each night and throw the "junk" mail away and keep real information for the next day.

Also the chocolates they now give, if they give them at all, are crap. I would rather the cruise lines discontinue them instead of putting a waxy piece of supposed chocolate on my pillow.

Well not all chocolates are crap. On Royal Caribbean, suite passengers receive the Ghiradelli chocolate squares. I ate a couple but most came home. It isn't any big thing since you can buy 48 of them at Costco for $7.00.

Take care,
Mike (mmm. Mike sounds grumpy today.)

[beenie weenie]

I usually bring home the dailies, and any swag we might have acquired along the way, like ships on a stick and stuff like that. The chocolates are immediately consumed by the elves that travel with us. I am really getting forgetful and the dailies help refresh my memory of where we went and what we did... etc. I am ashamed to say they are all in a stack in a bedroom cabinet right now. At some point I need to go through the ever growing pile and pitch the extraneous stuff.

Oh regarding soaps, this last cruise, we were given Elemis Soap, which I love, so I did bring some of that home. D/S is a shower cap swiper and by the end of our last cruise he had a drawer full. I didn't understand why until we got home and he had made little parachutes for all his little army guys .

[ready2gonow]

Mikey, you back to your room, and come out when you are in a better mood! (Actually, I have been suffering from the same syndrome for about a week, so I empathize)

I, too, go through everything each evening, and toss everyting not needed for the next day.

The one thing I dearly LOVED when on HAL Zuiderdam (I think) was that there was a tray attached to the trash can, to drop all the paper for recycle purposes! Why don't all the ships do this!!!!!

[Kimbopolo]

DH and I are life-long confimed minimalists. BUT ... I did bring home "Carnival Capers" from my first cruise in December. I have gotten them out since and was amazed by all the stuff I didn't get around to doing. I'll have to fix that!

The chocolates didn't make it off the ship.

[TravelMike]

Originally Posted by ready2gonow

Mikey, you back to your room, and come out when you are in a better mood! (Actually, I have been suffering from the same syndrome for about a week, so I empathize)

I, too, go through everything each evening, and toss everyting not needed for the next day.

The one thing I dearly LOVED when on HAL Zuiderdam (I think) was that there was a tray attached to the trash can, to drop all the paper for recycle purposes! Why don't all the ships do this!!!!!

Carole and I saved all the stuff for a while but it just became to much. So now I try and select one thing that represents the trip and add it to my crap collection. Mike

[rollerdonna]

I always save the daily newsletters (Capers or Patters or whatever), and I do use them when I write my reviews for Cruisemates. They help me remember which day we went where, info about ports, and all the activities we did or didn't do, also names of performers, etc. Very helpful.
Hubby used to post them on the wall of the cruise room, but now they are too plentiful, so they're in a binder in the cupboard....

I save a lot of other stuff too, especially postcards, napkins that sort of thing to put in my cruise scrapbooks.
Otherwise, all the ad stuff they put in your cabin (Teeth Whitening $100!) goes directly in the garbage. I do wish all ships would have recycling in the cabin, we throw out an awful lot of stuff!

I do, bring home the chocolates, and I always took them ot work to share with my co-workers. The last cruise, since moving away, those chocolates are still sitting in a candy dish in my living room!

donna

[Angela Z.]

Originally Posted by rollerdonna

those chocolates are still sitting in a candy dish in my living room!

donna

Chocolates sitting in a dish in our living room wouldn't last a day! You have amazing restraint Donna!
Angela Z.