Have you ever been at a store and seen something you want but don’t have the time or money to buy it at that moment?  Or maybe you’re driving past a house that has some landscaping that you like.  I don’t know how I used to remember that stuff, but ever since I got my iPhone, i’ve got a new way of capturing every idea I see that I like.

Admittedly this is not something that is limited to just the iPhone.  Any cell phone with a camera could do the same thing, but pictures just look awesome on the iPhone.  This is especially important if you’re really trying to capture the full beauty of whatever you’re trying to remember for the future.

Lori and I are in the middle of remodeling our upstairs.  Part of this process is pricing out different things at the hardware store.  I used to write this stuff down, now I just take pictures of the item with it’s price.  Once I get back home, I’ve got pictures and prices to work with.{/tabs}

This is especially useful if you like to price things online and compare it to what it would cost at your local store.  There has been many times that I’ve walked past something at Lowes, snapped a picture, looked it up at home and either bought it online, or bought it the next time I was out.

It’s weird but taking pictures of things in stores that I want to remember to buy, remember to price shop, or just as an idea for something I want to do someday has given me a lot of happiness.  I would always see those things before and have no way of taking the memory of it with me, and now I do.  At anytime I can flip through the pictures on my iPhone and see a record over the past 5 months of everything I saw that inspired me.