Best Souvenirs for All Your Travels

 Starting when I was quite young I wanted to collect souvenirs of my adventures. I tried many things as a child but I always found myself worried about eating or using or wasting the things that I had bought. It took me many years of travel with my family and small adventures in college But it finally occurred to me that I had stumbled upon the perfect thing along the way.
 I was able to take two trips internationally at the end of high school, I wanted to bring souvenirs for myself and for my family. The things I collected were some successful, and some terrible… For myself I still have some of the  scarves and jewelry, but for my friends and family many of the items were lackluster or soon broken, lost, forgotten. The thing that I had found along the way is I was always regretful  to have brought home edibles that would soon disappear or be wasted. I would soon change style, grow out of, or similarly use up clothing. Similarly, Knickknacks, keychains, paperweights and postcards all take up space and eventually get broken, lost, packed, disliked.  Unfortunately, my advice will resonate more with the women reading than men, although not entirely. The key to my souvenir strategy is to buy something representative, small, and most of all useful. The item  that suit my purposes perfectly allowing me to utilize and interact with my precious keepsakes, and my memories are… Earrings!
 During college I started my collection of earrings from small local adventures, fairs and festivals with family, and adventures abroad alone and with friends. I have the chance to revisit and  even to selfishly prompt questions allowing me to retell my stories by wearing this diverse collection of jewelry. They are small don't take up much space, and allow me the luxury of many, many varieties  without feeling decadent or gladness. I can wear my Venetian glass, followed by the volcanic stone from Pompeii, then the pearls I bought myself at Fourth of July with my grandmother  and all the while not feel the remorse of wasted cash items or space. I have been perpetually impressed and overjoyed by the success of this  simple strategy. Here is a small selection of my memory banks in small identical pair form:

 My methodology took a bit of time to perfect, with a couple of mistakes made along the way. I ended up with some earrings easily broken, some impractically heavy, some simply too Extreme in style. But I also have found small solutions for these items as well. See below the  Beautiful tassel adorned with the unbearably heavy African Moroccan style earrings purchased in Spain. Also the earring turn necklace when the partner was lost.  Some have had to be simplified or split into multiple pairs to tone down the colorful or over large nature. Some simply serve as decoration among the others, but that is another benefit of their size I don't mind having an extra pair or two  when I glanced through the collection to choose my look for the day.