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Useful photos to keep on your phone
Use your photos like a notebook, and important and useful information will be right in your pocket.
Thu, May 03 2012 at 1:40 PM
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Apartment Therapy had a great post yesterday, 10 Snapshots You Should Keep in Your Phone’s Photo Album. I thought the ideas they mentioned were so useful that I wanted to bring them up here.
Some of the ideas were ones I’ve used in the past like taking a photo of where you’ve parked (the letter in the parking lot, the floor number of the parking garage, or the cross street sign on the street) or a recipe from a book or magazine (I’ve done that with recipes I discovered at the doctor’s office.)
Here are some of the other ideas that I found useful:
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Your prescription bottles with the name and dosage clearly shown.
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Your printer cartridge with the refill numbers clearly shown.
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Light bulbs that fit your home fixtures.
I started flipping through the photos on my phone to see what I take photos of as reminders or for their information. Here are a few of mine:
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The information on the side of a shoebox and a photo of the shoe if I find a pair in a shop that I like, but they don’t have my size. I can then find it online.
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Bottles of wine that I really like. (There are a lot of wine bottle photos on my phone!)
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Books I see in a bookstore that I’d like to buy on my eReader or borrow from the library.
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Flyers hung up on the school’s outside bulletin board that I want the information from.
There were some great ideas in the comments section on Apartment Therapy, too.
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Your grocery list that you keep on the dry erase or chalkboard in your kitchen.
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Your car license plate.
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Your passport identification page.
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Health insurance card.
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Your kids' photos right before you go out somewhere, in case the kids get lost. Then you have a current photo with what they are wearing that day.
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Receipts you’re afraid you might lose (I totally have to start doing that one!)
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Lids of paint cans so we'll have the name, brand and all the formula numbers.
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Baggage claim tickets.
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Coat check tickets.
You get the idea. There are a million different things that it would be smart to take a picture of so you can have it right in your pocket or you handbag when you need it.
One last idea I just thought of: my library card. When I go to order something online from the library and they want my card number, I can just look on my phone instead of having to go get my keychain where the card is. I don’t know why, but it always annoys the heck out of me to have to go get it.
Do you have any other ideas to add to the list?
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Some of these like the prescriptions and passport page would worry me in case my phone was stolen or misplaced.
Something I do is take a picture of the sign post nearest my car in big parking lots. Nothing like getting back from a long trip and not being able to remember where the car is parked.