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For easier searching and sometimes nostalgic reasons. When I was in my early 20s, I used to save ticket stubs, boarding passes, train tickets, etc when I was t
by Ayesh 4y ago
For easier searching and sometimes nostalgic reasons.
When I was in my early 20s, I used to save ticket stubs, boarding passes, train tickets, etc when I was traveling, I really liked keeping them. But when I saw myself becoming a borderline hoarder, I took photos of them and threw all of them away. Even today, I have the habit of taking a document image of ticket stubs and other new things, specially when I'm in a new city or a country.
There is no practical use for them, just that they help me to not stack up physical papers.
The other real documents I archive are mostly documents related to dividend notices, water/electricity bills that unfortunately come in snail mail, etc. I'd be fine if I don't keep them, but I have them in the very unlikely scenario that I just might need to make a paper trail.
- ghaff 4y agoI have a bunch of stuff I wish I could easily digitize and throw away the originals. But, aside from doing a few selective things, the effort to en masse digitize and add enough metadata so I could actually find stuff isn't worth the return.
- throwaway290 4y agoFor some people "please provide evidence of your previous travel history" is something to worry about. Will they accept digitalized version? Who knows!
- ghaff 4y agoI would have absolutely no systematic record of my travel history outside of stamps in a passport and TripIt.
- throwaway290 4y agoPassports tend to get lost, and replacement won't have the stamps. Whether this matters for you mostly depends on your citizenship.
- ghaff 4y agoCertainly for some nationalities getting visas is harder than others. Though I'm not sure what would even constitute proof beyond passport immigration stamps and you don't necessarily always have those. Most boarding passes these days are either just printed out on a printer or displayed on an app. I'd actually have a pretty good record going back maybe 20 years with TripIt but that doesn't seem as if it would be considered authoritative.