Love this idea. My husband many years ago, before it was done
regularly. Lost his wallet at a beach. We don't believe it was
stolen just lost.

Donna :hug::grouphug:

"Crazy"
 

I saw the trailer to this movie:

BIRDMAN - Official Teaser (2014) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PdLmZG_6ZE


I love the song in the trailer:
Here are Daryl Hall and Cee Lo Green doing the song, " Crazy":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKQuhqoWNuQ

M

bizi said "They do make water proof pouches for swimming"

Mari, they sell all sorts of shapes and sizes in surf shops. I was just looking at them before. Some are way too expensive but I'm sure they're available in places like ebay that are still waterproof and small and secure and cheap. :)

It's terrible these days when we can't leave anything anywhere. Cars at national parks and beaches are a prime target. People break into cars to steal cds even. :rolleyes: That's when they're not stealing the car that is. ;)

If I got pulled over by the police here, a photocopy of my driver's licence isn't going to go down well at all. They're embedded with a microchip now and the photo is done with biometric imaging. I'd have a long walk home.

Yeah, I like the idea of a photocopy...

Is it more about knowing what is in there?

I know what you mean, Lara, photocopies of docs are worthless, but having the information can be useful, especially in case of loss. Like you know the "If lost or stolen call...." number on the back of a credit card? Ever tried to look on the back of a card you no longer have...lol. So the copy would serve as an inventory of items and also act as a fact sheet on each of the items. That would be my thought.

check the link
 

I guess you can see why I am taking my time getting to the gym. :rolleyes:

Probably I would keep the real drivers license in my wallet -- our drivers license's are tied into the fed gov database and as such seem to be important to authority figures.
Probably I would keep a photo copy at home.

Here is a water proof case probably designed for phones but would work for drivers license and car keys.
http://www.amazon.com/DandyCase-Wate...g+for+swimming

Does anyone have a suggestion for color?
Apparently I can get pink or black or aqua. :D :cool:
My bathing suit is black.
Sometimes pink works for me because I can spot the item among my blue/ black things.


Mari

I saw some smaller, flat and thinner ones somewhere in my travels this morning Mari.
They have them just for cards so they weren't much larger than a card. Quite tiny but large enough to hold things like a bank card, licence, key, cash.

I'm prone to buying Pink, especially this Month.

But I do either way many times.

Donna :grouphug::hug:

Water proof id/ badge holder case
 

http://www.amazon.com/WITZ-Waterproo.../dp/B001P5Y08C

This one looks appropriate for cards.

M

Hi Mari

You are probably a more experienced / less impeded pool swimmer than I, but just something I wanted to point out about an experience I had.

The *one* time I went to the gym pool I swam with the locker key fastened to my wrist (I used a soft scrunchy of just the right size, so it was not tight or loose).

I did not like swimming with a dangly thing fastened to me. I considered alternative places (ankle, or swimsuit strap) and felt that the wrist was the least of all evils.

I definitely would not want to swim with a badge holder fastened to me. Maybe if it could be tucked into the suit perhaps at the back... but I think that would bug me too.

But then as you know I had copious problems with that pool scene... I and am bugged by lots of things that do not bug most people.

waves

Waves,

Kind of right. I have been in pools more than the ocean.
I cannot say that I am an experienced swimmer as much as
I could say that I am comfortable in the water (pool or ocean -- both creep me out germ-wise).

The scrunchy made sense I am sure -- and solved some problems -- but I can see how it did not work in the implementation.

Well I did do aqua aerobics for a year or two or three with a key on a chain
around my neck and sort of tucked into my suit and I was o.k. with that.
'Probably did laps other days too and did o.k. I was happy to have that key
around my neck.

And I bought a combination lock recently.

But a lapping piece of plastic to hold my license is a
different "kettle of fish" than one key on a metal chain.
. . . . somehow very different.

I might not be doing much swimming.
I want to walk (at a height between waist and chest--- as the PT
at the podiatrist told me).
And other movements from knee PT people that can be either better done in
water than on land or that can be harder in water . . .or safer because of the weight of the water.

I also want to do exercises described in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Scotts-Knee.../dp/0684811049
'Sorry that I cannot find good web pictures right now.
I remember doing ab work that is great in the pool but less fun on land.

One could find/design a suit with a small pocket. It could be done.

As hubby studied and as most of us know with our meds,
every gain produces a loss.
What matters is how much the gain and how little the loss.
The vital next step is to make possible adjustments to either
increase gain or decrease loss.

Mari