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Good morning.
This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that the best souvenirs tell stories.
So skip the t-shirts or magnets that say the name of your destination, and instead choose an object that evokes a story you will be able to retell in the future.
Today's tip comes courtesy from Marcy Sims, president of the Cy Sims Foundation and author of Leading with Respect Adventures of an Off-Price Fashion Pioneer.
When my Best of Both Worlds podcast co-host, Sarah Hart Unger, interviewed Marcy for that podcast a few months ago, she mentioned that while on a trip to Santa Fe, she had bought a handmade friendship bowl with people holding hands on top of the bowl.
It is a bowl, she noted, with a story to tell.
I love the idea of aiming for souvenirs that tell stories.
At its root, a souvenir is something that helps us remember a trip.
That's what souvenir means in French, to remember.
So, when you are traveling, try to bring home mementos that prompt you to remember stories from your trip.
If you are in Paris, for instance, lucky you and you see an artist sketching in a park near your hotel every afternoon.
Perhaps you could buy a sketch from him.
Anytime you look at the sketch in the future, you will be reminded of your time in Paris and walking through the park and seeing him at work.
Or if your kids are fascinated by the people playing chess in the park, you could buy them a chessboard.
Every time they play, you will recall stories of your trip.
Or perhaps you looked forward to a girl's beach trip for months, only to get rained on every day.
You could buy a cheerful rainbow umbrella to make possible daily walks to your daily ice cream parlor.
After you get home, every time you use the umbrella...
You can remember the torrential rain you saw from your window, the Scrabble tournament that you and your friends enjoyed in the Airbnb and your daily ice cream outings.
In the past on this show I have talked about the fact that souvenirs don't need to look like souvenirs.
Some of the best options can be things we use in our daily lives that conjure up our travels every time we see them.
I bought a lovely brown coat with fur trim fake, don't worry when I was in Spain about 20 years ago.
I saw it in a store window and fell in love with it, and I bought it.
I loved wearing that brown coat for years and every time I wore it I remembered Christmas in Spain, even though the word Spain was nowhere to be seen.
Similarly, anything that tells a story can be a souvenir.
An evocative seashell can bring back beach memories as well or better than any random item with the beach's name on it.
Especially if you picked up that seashell in a little shop near the beach after watching your kids point out the shells on the beach all morning.
The shell helps recall that morning.
And suddenly, you remember.
It is truly a souvenir.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
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