I recently had the opportunity to speak with a traveling nurse at one of our local hospitals. This young lady is an RN who works for a staffing agency, taking temporary assignments that typically last between three and six months. She travels to various cities around the country working at hospitals, doctor's offices, and schools.
As we were talking, she mentioned wanting to begin collecting something in her travels that she could catalog to keep track of all the states and cities she's visited. She wasn't into postcards or shot glasses, and she wanted something small enough to be portable. After thinking about it for a few minutes I realized The Cheap Place has the perfect item: state name patches.
They have an entire collection of small rockers bearing the names of the individual states. These are stock patches usually purchased by motorcycle clubs to put on their vests or jackets, to help identify where their club chapter is from. But there's nothing that says bikers are the only ones that can have them. Being that they are stock patches, anyone can purchase them from a retailer. They seem to be the perfect solution for this traveling nurse.
She could purchase a photo album or a scrapbook and mount them in place using a little bit of glue. They're small enough that she could collect all 50 and barely take up one album. If she were real creative she could incorporate them into a scrapbook with photos and some other personal effects for an eye-catching display she could show her future children and grandchildren. The best part is that wholesale patches at The Cheap Place are extremely inexpensive.
I'm not sure what the young lady though my suggestion. But I sure think it's a good one!
