What do you collect??

[mr. figment]

Looking through my desk drawer tonight, I found my collection of "keys to the world" cards from all my visits to WDW. So, I am wondering what other things DVC'ers collect from their trips. (Things that you don't buy.)

 

[wildernessDad]

Those cloth DVC tote bags! But not as many as some, I am sure!

 

[casper]

Well, I would like to collect some of those expensive pictures/paintings. But I don't have that kind of money. So, I do, like you, collect the room key cards and also Fast Passes to the different rides. Haven't got all of them yet. Some are just too tempting to use instead of collect.

I am an amusement park junkie and collect from many different parks. One of my treasured possessions is a "Welcome" sign that I won on the Disney Auction site (before they closed the site down). It hung at Space Mountain at Disneyland. It's cool because I fixed the lighting element and so now it lights up exactly like it did on the ride.

 

[Muushka]

We also have a Disney Drawer. But it holds all sorts of vacation memorabilia. AP vouchers (WDW and USF) and MYW passes. We have all sorts of keys to the WDW resorts. It is fun to look back on them. And 4 cruise KTTW cards from DCL and Celebrity. And we collect different Disney prints (many are photos that we took). But I am in my 'purge' stage. My walls are bare and I am slowly putting things back after painting the interior.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

PINS, PINS, PINS.........We used to have so much Disney but we sold & gave it all away. The only thing that continues are the pins. I just received 11 in the mail today from Mouse Gears.

Whoops.....Disney ornaments. One of our Christmas trees is mostly Disney.

 

[mvc1997]

Key cards, the folder your given at check-in, the guide maps, Especially the guide maps from MNSSHP & MVMCP!! We made large picture collages of our family trips with the Key cards & guide maps in them!!

 

[ACDSNY]

I too must admit to having a drawer full of Disney key cards, map, old APs and a few special pins. Worst yet I've started buying pictures from the Amination store, I'm running out of wall space. Now what am I going to collect?

 

[funatdisney]

I can certain;y understand ACDSNY's lack of wall space. I bought my first Disney framed poster at WDW in 1998 and I'm still collecting from both Disneyland and WDW. Luckily, we moved into a bigger house and there is plenty of wall space. Won't have to move for a while.
I also keep all the AP passes from Disneyland and the day passes from WDW.

 

[SuziQZee]

If it has Mickey Mouse on it, I collect it! Oh brother...I need help.

The one thing I collect that is "free", are the paper coasters that are in the rooms when you check in. They are so cute and the last three years have been different. They have the DVC logo and an outline of a Mickey head on them. I think 2007 was red and 2006 was yellow but we stayed at POR in 2005 so those were black and white Mickey heads.

Also, we've collected the plastic cups that we got shakes in at MK. We looked for them in 2007 but I think Disney changed their cups to disposable plastic. The ones we were collecting were translucent cups with a silhouette of the castle and a Mickey balloon flying through the sky. I love these cups and would love to know if someone knows where I can get some more! They are the perfect size for my kids and regular resaurant kids' cups lids fit on them too!

I'm sure there is ALOT more but I'm just trying to think of the "free" stuff that most normal people would never think of.

 

[disneymom8589]

As for "free" souvenirs, I collect park maps. I even laminated a set to use for map activities for my 2nd graders!

 

[Pakey]

I'm a scrapbooker so I collect everything. In fact, on our trip last month, our first timer friends who went with us, started handing me their used straws, etc as a joke because they couldn't believe the stuff I was "collecting". I have plastic toothpics with logos, drink stirrers, coasters, napkins, business cards, all kinds of stuff. If it says Disney and it's free, it's coming home in the suitcase.

 

[carol1231]

I have a collection of popcorn buckets. We get one every trip.

 

[tomandrobin]

Apparently, Tote bags too!

But also, pins, DVDs, Christmas ornaments, and recently some paintings/prints. Oh, and inadvertantly we have a nice collection of refillable mugs.

 

[brandylouwho]

My girls just started collecing charms for their charm necklaces, one per trip. It takes forever to choose the right one.

I have also started buying an ornament for each of them per trip. I want them to be reminded of all our Disney vacations when they are all grown up.

We do bring home popcorn buckets and stuff like that too. The 4 year old has been carrying her markers around in one lately.

 

[sajetto]

As for "free" souvenirs, I collect park maps. I even laminated a set to use for map activities for my 2nd graders!

Great idea and the students would love reading a map that came from Disney World!

 

[DisDaydreamer]

It's a purchase, but I always get the new baseball cap specific to the resort.

I lost may favorite VB cap riding on the drachen fire coaster at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg What a horrible death for a disney cap. I should have known better. I think about it almost every day.

 

[nunzia]

I'm a scrapbooker so I collect everything. In fact, on our trip last month, our first timer friends who went with us, started handing me their used straws, etc as a joke because they couldn't believe the stuff I was "collecting". I have plastic toothpics with logos, drink stirrers, coasters, napkins, business cards, all kinds of stuff. If it says Disney and it's free, it's coming home in the suitcase.

I used to collect alot of stuff..Ebay it off now for vacations
I scrapbook, so I guess I collect memories, and I also have everyone trained to save napkins, coasters, etc to jazz up the scrpbook.. Anyone know a good adhesive for sticking down the pressed pennies?

The only 'stuff' I still like is old Disneyland memoribilia.

 

[cobbler]

We keep our room keys and I put them in the scrapbook. I should keep park maps but I usually end up tossing them out.

I keep the resort maps and scrapbook those. We also have a collection of the popcorn buckets. Quite a few, we donated a couple to a Disney gift basket for my kids school auction one year.

We also keep our tickets because they usually have different images on the front, we keep our wristbands from the parties we attend and they go in the scrapbook to.

As for things we buy and collect. I do the pins. Not every pin, but pins that are special to that trip, like the year, resort we stayed at, party pins and things of that nature.

 

[mr. figment]

Pins...I resisted until our honeymoon. Then I was hooked. We try to keep it under control and only get the ones that are special for that trip ,but it's not easy when you could buy the whole display. Darn those Disney people!

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

I used to collect alot of stuff..Ebay it off now for vacations
I scrapbook, so I guess I collect memories, and I also have everyone trained to save napkins, coasters, etc to jazz up the scrpbook.. Anyone know a good adhesive for sticking down the pressed pennies?

The only 'stuff' I still like is old Disneyland memoribilia.

Have you tried the "strong" dots? That might work....