Am I the only one who saves most of the paper work from a Disney Cruise?

[71 Truck]

As the title says. Am I the only one who does this?
My wife and I are big Disney fans. I still have the dinner bill from our first ever meal we bought while at Disney on our honeymoon over thirty years ago. I also have maps,menus we were given and resort news letters among other things form over the years of many vacations at Walt Disney World.

When we started cruising with Disney almost twenty years ago I did the same thing. Every thing from Navigators,shopping guides, all the info that came in them from stores in the different ports , our folio from the guest services and anything left in our room.
Every so often I like to look back to see to see how much things have changed. It also kind of remind me of the great times my wife and I have had over the years.
Over the years some of the stuff has been misplaced throught out our home on book shelfs and desk draws, some I thought never to be seen again. Then just recently I found a bunch of stuff from our first cruise in a draw.
I now have everything in one place. Usually it is one of each item that is neatly stored in an old desk.

Am I the only one?
And yes I also have a lot of pictures in photo albums. Thank goodness for the digital age.

 

[TikiThunderPirates]

Nope, I have it organized in small plastic document boxes for each cruise or Parks visit. It takes up a ton of room, and every year or so I swear I should just get rid of it all... but I never do. Then one day I am thinking about some act I saw and go back to the paper navigator to find the name of that great magician I saw years ago..... Maybe I should digitize it... because it takes up sooo much room...

But you are not the only one. I'm at least one more.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Am I the only one?

Not at all. I save for scrapbooks. I try to convince myself I don't really need to keep every bar bill from each cruise, but they are there in the scrapbook, nontheless.

 

[insureman]

I tried but then my wife goes through the stuff and tosses it out.

 

[Lisa Lisa]

Nope. I have a file for each of our cruises that contains my reservation paperwork, confirmations of any excursions and Palo/Remy reservations, Personal Navigators, account summaries, boarding cards, KTTW cards, Magical Moments certificates, OBB booklets, etc. I hardly ever look at them anymore, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them!

 

[Trera]

Gave up on that years ago. Our daughter loves to keep the room keys and lanyards (one silver, one gold, and a bunch of platinums) and we have a few backpacks, beach bags, tumbler and such.

 

[daedelus]

We have the Navigators (back when they were printed) for every cruise. Fun to look back and see what we did!

 

[goofystitch]

Nope, I'm right there with you. I keep the Navigators, the port shopping guides and brochures, the cruise booklet (when they used to mail those out), every piece of paper left by our stateroom host, the DVC member invitations, etc. It's fun to look at these things and reminisce about the good times.

 

[AquaDame]

I scan them and then toss the physical copies. Y'all are the only ones who ask to see them anyway...

I do keep the keycards in a stack though as a souvenir.

 

[o&smom]

Add another to the list! I keep everything with the plan of getting it all in scrapbooks someday.

 

[Pinkgurlshubby]

DW keeps everything filed away and then makes scrap books of the vacations. We have every navigator and every gift shop and bar receipt but also boarding cards, car rentals, gas receipts, you name it. When it comes time to make the scrap books she will then decide what she wants to keep and then purge

 

[Toulou]

Funny you should ask!!! Now I'm feeling guilty...I saved everything... but it must be covid time...about 3 months ago, asked my sons what they wanted, took my postcards and room keys and tossed the rest out. I don't know...hmmm...I remember the christmas season when I spent all day looking for my old treasured ornaments...hmmm, that too must have been a "covid" time!!

 

[KVH]

I would have said the question is really whether these items "spark Joy" in you. But since it's a Disney artifact, I'm guessing the answer is always gonna be yes. Benn going since '77 and in the last few years, we've realized, outside the scrapbooks themselves (which we no longer do), the stuff takes up nothing but space. Decluttering, to us, now seems a better way of handling this stuff at this point in our lives.

 

[pumpkinqueen93]

I keep stuff too, my mom did it, and now I am continuing it in my own home. Sometimes it's nice to look back at old maps and compare how much parks have changed. I might just give her what I have tho to end up with piles and piles that I can't control. Although I would take one map and she would take like 10 of each

 

[Chemist]

Having had the experience of cleaning out my mother's house (and she wasn't even a saver), I look at "stuff" in a whole different way.

I don't keep stuff like that on purpose. If I run across it, I look at it, smile and put it lovingly in the recycling bin.

 

[KVH]

I keep stuff too, my mom did it, and now I am continuing it in my own home. Sometimes it's nice to look back at old maps and compare how much parks have changed. I might just give her what I have tho to end up with piles and piles that I can't control. Although I would take one map and she would take like 10 of each

See, unfortunately, we're the kind of people who remember the "good old days" in the parks and that has conditioned us to be picky from now on. Having constant reminders of what we've lost (LoW, etc) makes it more frustrating. Sure, the parks are fun still - sadly, I think they could be so much more. The boats aren't at that point yet, I hope (we'll see what happens in our B2B in May). So we're happy with our memories and that's enough.

 

[i18mulan]

We keep everything from the cruise too! We never returned the magicbands our kids wore and now we have more than 40 of them! (Including magicbands from WDW stay). All cruise booklets and KTTW cards are kept as souvenirs.

 

[rosiect]

I keep most everything too. The debarkation luggage tags brighten up my window blinds. I also enjoy comparing the bar bills from cruise to cruise.

 

[i18mulan]

We also kept all of our lanyards but it was A LOT (12 DCL cruises and 4 in the family) so we ended up using them as ribbons on our luggages so it’s easy to spot them in the airport baggage carousel. We combined dvc, silver, gold and platinum lanyards.

 

[DisneyConvert]

Good topic. My wife saves everything.
I like the lanyards (especially the gold & black ones ).

And I save a .pdf of the final bill because it helps us approximate our on-board expenses for other similar cruises . . . It also helps to recall which DisneyGiftCard or Rewards card $$$'s we used.