Favorite FREE souvenier

jkm8113 · Post by **jkm8113** » May Tue 03, 2005 12:52 pm

What is yours?

Mine is the little round paper Mickey coasters under the glasses in the resort rooms. They used to be in all rooms, then just moderates, so not sure if they are still there anymore. We have DVC so we don't stay in the resort rooms often anymore.

If you grab them up before they get used, you can punch a hole near the top and put a string thru it. Then use the back of the coaster to write To: and From: and then use it as a gift tag.

Also, the nice plastic laundry bag they put in the room in the closet makes a nice gift bag for larger items.

AKLRULZ · Post by **AKLRULZ** » May Tue 03, 2005 1:05 pm

Housekeeping let us keep some of the towel animals they created on our last stay at the Wilderness Lodge - my kids really dug them!

Siriuslydead · Post by **Siriuslydead** » May Tue 03, 2005 2:32 pm

I have to go with jkm8113 and say the Mickey coasters they have. I saved one from our room in the AKL, and I still have it today. Also, you know when Housekeeping is cleaning rooms, and you're walking in the hallway of the resort and a room door is open because the room is being cleaned? Well at the AKL, my best friend and I were walking down the hallway, and a room was being cleaned by Housekeeping, and when the room is being cleaned they put a door key in there so the door doesn't lock behind them. Do you know what I'm talking about? It was a little purple slip. Well I took it, heh. I have it here somewhere, but I can't possibly look for it now because I have a whole 'Disney Drawer' in my room. The drawer will barely close because it's packed with tons of Disney things from my past two trips.

I also enjoy taking the Mickey soap and shampoo. If we have some extra and left over, we take it home with us. And, of course, another favorite souvenier of mine (which isn't exactly free) is the Disney resort mugs that you buy at your Resort and then you get to use them for free refills whenever you want. I still have mine from the AKL and CBR, they're in my Disney drawer, heh.

lovesdisney44 · Post by **lovesdisney44** » May Tue 03, 2005 8:53 pm

Count me for another Mickey Mouse Coaster fan. I have a small stack of them from past trips. I use one at my desk at work every day .8) I also love the pens that are in the resort room that say Walt Disney Resorts on them. I call those "my Disney pens" and I use them all the time, but guard them with my life! If someone wants to use my pen, I say "sure, but make sure you give it back, it my Disney vacation pen". Kinda nuts, huh . . . oh well

G2-4T · Post by **G2-4T** » May Tue 03, 2005 9:17 pm

Coasters, soap, pens [DL's are better!], laundry bags [and they used to have green recycling ones too] are classics. I also dig napkins - nothing makes lunch better on exam days than a napkin from the parks. And Fastpasses make great bookmarks - the invalid ones you get when swiping your ticket twice may have a big black message but the original logo at the top still sticks out of the book.

Siriuslydead · Post by **Siriuslydead** » May Tue 03, 2005 9:55 pm

I forgot about Fastpasses being souveniers! I keep all of mine. They're in my Disney drawer, heh. Everyone is saying how they use all of their free souveniers in everday life, for example, the napkins, pens, coasters, and even Fastpasses. I am just so protective of all my Disney stuff that I literally won't take it out of my Disney drawer unless I can't control myself and want to think about my trips to WDW and cry about it (which is how I feel every day, but I can usually contain myself). I'm just too afraid to take my Disney things out of the drawer, I don't want anything to happen to them.

G2-4T · Post by **G2-4T** » May Tue 03, 2005 10:03 pm

Yeah - but what's the point if you don't enjoy 'em? That's my thing at least, it brings back the memories daily...

Siriuslydead · Post by **Siriuslydead** » May Tue 03, 2005 10:15 pm

I understand what you mean. I will go through my Disney drawer occassionally. It's fun to look back at all the things you got. And they do bring back memories too, which is always good. But meanwhile, I have other things to remind me of my trips. This past November, I brought my brand new video camera with me and documented my trip, and currently I'm making it into a movie (I want to be a director, so this works perfectly). I edited the film, and now I'm working on putting on DVD. I had to split up the days into three DVD's. I'm actually looking to enter my movie into a contest because, believe it or not, but I have achieved my goal and have officially made a full-length feature film. My completed movie is amazingly two hours and six minutes. And don't get me wrong, it's not just a shaky home video, it's a real thing, heh. Anyway, I'm still finishing that up, so that reminds me every day. And I have pictures all over my room from my trips. I'm not saying that the movie and the pictures are better than the souveniers and things in my drawer, they're just more convenient, because I don't want to take the risk of using them every day, incase something happens. I'm a loser like that.

Post by **js3901** » May Wed 04, 2005 1:40 am

as I've never yet had the pleasure of staying at one of the resorts of WDW property, I can't say anything found in the rooms. However, I keep any and everything I can find - napkins, shopping bags, expired tickets/fastpasses, guidemaps, etc. Great sourvenirs that fit neatly into shoe boxes then into the 3 rubbermaid tubs where I keep things from the past...

Disneynut · Post by **Disneynut** » May Wed 04, 2005 10:57 am

I like to keep the park Guidemaps.

lovesdisney44 · Post by **lovesdisney44** » May Wed 04, 2005 11:37 am

I remember back for the 25th Anniversary back in 1997 - the toilet paper in the bathrooms had a special extra wrapping that had black bubbles all around it to continue with the Mickey Mouse Soap, shampoo and lotion theme. It's the little details that I think make all the difference in a on-site stay that I really miss

jrcohen · Post by **jrcohen** » May Wed 04, 2005 12:50 pm

I used to collect the Guidemaps from everytime I went and visited. From 1986 through 1993 I had at least one complete set of Guide maps for each year. But they've gone missing somehow. So, I want to start collecting them again. I have 2 sets from my last visit in 1999, and hopefully we'll be able to go a lot more often starting next year, so...

jkm8113 · Post by **jkm8113** » May Wed 04, 2005 1:01 pm

I save the napkins with printing on them, too. I have quite a large collection. My favorites are from Prime Time and Donalds Breakfastasaurus.

Also, when you stay in a studio at a DVC resort, there are a lot of cool paper products, plates, bowls, etc. I have been hording those, and one day I will have enough to have a cookout and use it all.

I also grab an extra sat of plasticware when we eat counter service, the ones that are different colors and individually wrapped. I use those at the office when I need utensils.

cruiseguy7011 · Post by **cruiseguy7011** » May Wed 04, 2005 4:43 pm

The maps are great to collect. The oldest one that I can find is from 1997 but now they don't print the schedules inside of them so you don't know when they are from now.
-Cruiseguy

Post by **js3901** » May Wed 04, 2005 8:09 pm

I liked the guide maps before when they used to be specific to the week. You could be there over the weekend and the maps would be different on Sunday from what they were on Saturday. A great momento from your trip (basically documenting the dates you were there). That would get really expensive, though, so I can understand why they stopped it and went to full year maps.