Old Travel Brochures, Guidiebooks, Leaflets - Keeping Or Throwing Away?

 The first cull of travel brochures is at your holidy or business destination when you pack to go home from holiday. If you are on a budget airline, or any airline, you need to be sure your suitcases are not over weight and running up a large fine.

Then you need to cull again back home. A year or two later, or twenty years later, when your shelves are overcrowded, you need another sort out.

What Goes In The Bin?

My first cull is out of date events lists. 

Then coupons out of date no longer valid.

Hotels and restaurants now out of business - address cards, leaflets, menus.

I know many people keep old theatre programmes. Years later the menu for the Titanic would be worth a lot of money. If you live in a huge house, your major job would not be throwing away, but classifying papers by date, in fated boxes or old suticases, then within the box or case, folders containing items by type, hotels, restaurants, routes, people met, lanmarks and scenic spots, diaries.

If you are downsizing, or reckon that your grandchildren or a company might not know what is valuable and important, you might want to choose the best items to keep.

Old Books & Traavel Guides

Libraries might keep out of date material in their archives for researchers. SOmebody writing a novel or historical account of 100 years earlier might want to know about the restaurants and hotels from that era. 

Throw Away Duplicates

Why do I have duplicates?

1 I picked up two. 

2 I picked up one and later got a second version in a set I was given. 

3 My husband and I when travelling both received one to read, but afterwards back home we don't need two.

Most can be recycled in the paper bin.

Amongst the travel brochures are other things I no longer need. Tickets for rides I can't rmember or did not like.

You might want to dust off items in high shelves.

You might make some surprising discoveries. I found a file of my school reports which my mother saved all her life.  Plus photos of ancestors. My late maternal uncle's birth certificate from 1921, over a hundred years ago.

It was satisfying to have space. Equally satisfying to find old documents and treasures.

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