Clear out - I threw my BA boarding cards & other stuff
It was time to clear out the clutter.
And I got rid of my substantial collection of airline rubbish, including:
* two inches of boarding card stubs, mainly BA and including my first CW and F ones
* BA marketing material, including NGCW brochure
* 12 inches of BA CW menus
* 12 inches of bag tags, mainly BA CW with a few F, GF and QR ones in too
* about GBP 20k worth of e-ticket receipts
* LH and EK brochures.
It was gut wrenching to do it but I now feel cleansed knowing that I have just cleared my clutter, having got rid of a lot of other useless stuff too.
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I threw out
1) The menu with the shocking suggestions signed by CIHY when I was still a UM and he was only a Purser.
2) HIDDY's picture as it is years out of date and I needed space for the Jersey Bears
3) BAGoldenBoy's letters which, beautiful though they were comeons and nothing more.
4)The Pre-Nup from Michael O'Leary which I refused to sign , and the Post-Nup from W. Walsh as I am not that sort of girl.
5)Phil the Flier as I want my spare room back and want to come and go without the neighbours glaring because I had brought the neighbourhood into disrepute and wrecked the property values.
All of it. Up in smoke. Took the ashes and, heedless of the harm to the planet, threw them into the WT toilets at 37,000 feet.
Then I went home opened a bottle of F Champagne that I found lying about after the bar was counted and locked, and came to Flyertalk that repository of beautiful memories, informed opinion, and promise of an enhanced tomorrow.
Then I woke up.
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I confess … I have a couple of box-files which contain, neatly enclosed in plastic wallets in date order, assorted documents relating to previous avian journeys. This is, of course, OCD. Or simple tidiness, depending on your POV.
They are for reference purposes in case I feel the need to pontificate on FT about how cheaply I achieved a TATL MFU/UuA in 2008. Or was it 2009?
The only item of any emotional relevance, that still sits in the travel wallet, is my boarding card stub for 1J on MaxJet - 14 Oct 2007, MY200, IAD>STN. The ink's fading a bit these days, so I guess it will have to go eventually. But it was that experience [and a couple of previous ones], coupled with the demise of MY, that drove us into the arms of BA/BAEC. The following May found us on the UD on BA217 [after a BD hop from JGW>LHR], since when we've never looked [or sat] back.
Memories one treasures - especially when memory ain't what it used to be.
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I have a huge & useless (if I'm honest) collection BP's, menus, bag tags, amenity kits & other such tat, from my travels. I've often thought that I should de-clutter & throw it all out, but somehow I just think I could go through with it.
Those darn print at home, OLCI BP's just aren't the same as the card ones we used to get at check in, nor can an e-ticket hold a candle to those wonderful multi sector flight coupons, hand written by the TA with that lovely red carbon copy coating.
And I got rid of my substantial collection of airline rubbish, including:
* two inches of boarding card stubs, mainly BA and including my first CW and F ones
* BA marketing material, including NGCW brochure
* 12 inches of BA CW menus
* 12 inches of bag tags, mainly BA CW with a few F, GF and QR ones in too
* about GBP 20k worth of e-ticket receipts
* LH and EK brochures.
It was gut wrenching to do it but I now feel cleansed knowing that I have just cleared my clutter, having got rid of a lot of other useless stuff too.
I have nowhere as much as that being a non FF'r but I have kept most of my stubs from over the years including some nice coloured BP's but all the other stuff gets shredded. Now and again I have a look and it does bring back some nice memories, MRU, SFO, YVR, HKG, SYD.......
OT: I have just cleared my whole attic out as it's getting re-insulated and loads of stuff for the car boot sale paid for part of the Seoul trip. Like the old saying where there's muck there is money.... and all for a good cause/trip
Hope you aren't throwing your trademark SF blazer out though!!
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Why throw them out? There's a lot of happy memories there I'm sure.
I keep all of my long haul ones, not short haul though, otherwise I'd have a whole shelf full.
My plan is to put them up in the loft somewhere and 'discover' them quite a few years later and look back on how things 'were'.
I could do with clearing out luggage labels.. i'm not quite sure why i've got any!! Also Amtrak train timetables..
toiletries are useful for when i'm staying in hotels that don't provide any (like ibis) so they can stay
Clear out - I threw my BA boarding cards & other stuff
