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Lost Passports Or When Passports Wander Off

July 12, 2012 By Debra Schroeder 2 Comments This post may contain affiliate links. Traveling Well For Less has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. Traveling Well For Less and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author's alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed or approved by any of these entities. Read my disclosure and privacy policies.

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when passports wander off

We had a few tense moments in the Traveling Well For Less household yesterday when I could not find the boys’ passports.

Even though we’re only going to Hawaii, passports are required because we’re going to Hawaii via a free stopover on American Airlines en route to Australia. I’ll elaborate more on free stopovers in another post.

The passports were not in their secret hiding place.  Apparently, so secret, I could not remember where I had put them.

I checked all my secret hiding place spots. And yes, I have more than one. Call me cautious, ok, paranoid.  If someone is going to break into my house I’m not going to make it easy for them to find my documents.  Electronics I can replace and if it means we’re without a tv or computer for a few months so be it. But not having our documents, that’s going to cause trouble. So, I hide them.

Thankfully the lost passports resurfaced…in one of my secret hiding places. And yes, I did look there yesterday, six times as a matter of fact. For whatever reason, they were cloaked, simply took a vacation on their own, wandered off, were playing hide and seek, or just didn’t want to be found.

Which leads to the question, where do you store your valuable documents?  In a secret hiding place?  Safe? Safety deposit box?

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About Debra Schroeder

Debra is a former 12-year travel industry executive and has traveled the world using airline miles and credit card points since 1994. She'll teach you the secrets of traveling well for less.

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  2. Cassie says

    July 13, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    Glad you found them! Did I tell you that when we returned from Peru we thought we had lost Kevins passport so he cancelled it and replaced it. We found it 2 months later in the camera bag–had slipped down into a space we didn’t know existed, between the bag padding and the outside wall of the bag! That was an expensive mistake 🙁

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    • Debbie Schroeder says

      July 13, 2012 at 7:50 pm

      Thanks, me too. It was going to cost us $380 in fees not counting parking, gas, and 2 hours off of work for Jeff (since both parents have to be present when you’re getting passports for kids under 16).

      Hey, now you know you’ve got a secret hiding spot in the camera bag! 🙂

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