Somehow the way you travel it´s the the way you manage how good or bad you collect items, shitty clubs amazing pub-crawls leaflets, stickers, junk, collectibles, museum cards, all kinds random stuff.
The more you travel, the more needless stuff you will carry with you. After a while travelling, i noticed that i should have kept my memorabilia hunger lower. If you go home with your pockets empty, probably means that you had a great trip. Sometimes it happens you want to carry the heaviest thing you will see in Feira da Ladra (Lisbon´s flea market) or in Vandoma(Porto´s flea market).
Forget it, you will never be able to take more from a country by the weight of your souvenir. Postcards are instant souvenirs. So, they´re not exactly a souvenir. They are tremendous efficient. You will be amazed for the pleasure of having it arrived. Not only because they can be the most beautiful piece of paper ever seen, but also that inner beauty can contain everything you need from your trip. And that´s what you need to tell to someone.
Portugal has some curious ones. Since the 80´s, colour postcards lost their value suddenly. Looks like they were in a rush to follow the general bad taste of our buildings in the south coast. It´s a very sad and kitch memory from my chillhood. You would see some with nude girls with a donkey staring at them in a beach somewhere in Algarve.
