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Do you collect anything small from your travels?
Posted on 7/14/16 at 4:29 pm
Posted on 7/14/16 at 4:29 pm
I don't do much souvenir shopping. I usually look for a local bike shop and buy a bike jersey but thats about it, except for one thing.....coffee stirrers.
I don't know how, when or where it started but I probably have 20 of them from all over the place. If I get one, I usually keep it and take it home. Every morning when I grab my first cup of joe it takes me back for even one brief moment to wherever I was when I first got that stirrer.
I don't know how, when or where it started but I probably have 20 of them from all over the place. If I get one, I usually keep it and take it home. Every morning when I grab my first cup of joe it takes me back for even one brief moment to wherever I was when I first got that stirrer.
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Posted on 7/14/16 at 4:33 pm to LSUfan4444
I used to collect shot glasses but stopped doing that several years back.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 5:20 pm to LSUfan4444
I like to keep my boarding passes.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 5:50 pm to LSUfan4444
The GF collects magnets
Posted on 7/14/16 at 6:39 pm to tduecen
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The GF collects magnets
We do this. We get the goofy 3D looking ones showing whatever kinda represents that country or city. Have an Amsterdam Sex Shop, Taj Mahal, Angko Wat, Sagrada, etc.
I also like to keep a small bill of currency to place under the magnet.
This post was edited on 7/14/16 at 6:40 pm
Posted on 7/14/16 at 6:44 pm to ColoradoAg03
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I used to collect shot glasses but stopped doing that several years back.
Same. No idea what happened to them. Likely tossed them all when I moved out of LA.
My thing to buy now on big trips is usually a small picture frame with the name of where I'm at on the frame. I'll then put my favorite picture of myself and my husband from that trip in it.
This post was edited on 7/14/16 at 6:46 pm
Posted on 7/14/16 at 6:46 pm to lsunurse
Magnets and Starbucks mugs.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 8:37 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Yeah all of the Magnets have the name of the city we were in along with something that symbolized that city.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 8:52 pm to LSUfan4444
My wife gets Christmas ornaments from wherever we go.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 9:38 pm to ellunchboxo
Kinda cheesy but when we were in our 20's. Wife and I would go somewhere for our anniversary. It's July 1st. So we would go to hard rocks cafes and get a fourth of July pin. We did that for about 8 staight years.
Posted on 7/14/16 at 10:31 pm to ellunchboxo
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My wife gets Christmas ornaments from wherever we go.
That's what we do as well. It's fun to decorate our tree with ornaments that have a personal story
Posted on 7/15/16 at 8:41 am to tduecen
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The GF collects magnets
We do this too. But it is such a conundrum as to where to draw the line. 1 for every symbolic city/place or 1 for every country? For ex: recently in Italy I couldn't decide whether I needed a Colosseum magnet as well as a gondola. Stuck with just the gondola in the end
Got some other cool ones from all over the world. Wish I was more creative.
Do have some cool Tiki statues from Hawaii. I want more stuff like that.
Posted on 7/15/16 at 9:13 am to LSUfan4444
The wife likes to get illustration heavy children's books when we are overseas. At first I was confused but it is actually kind of cool.
The process of finding the Italian or French or German counterpart to Curious George/babar the elephant creates a bit too much time in bookstores, but i'll gladly trade that for any desire to buy designer goods in places like Paris.
The process of finding the Italian or French or German counterpart to Curious George/babar the elephant creates a bit too much time in bookstores, but i'll gladly trade that for any desire to buy designer goods in places like Paris.
Posted on 7/15/16 at 9:16 am to LSUfan4444
Coffee mugs
Posted on 7/15/16 at 9:34 am to Foch
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The process of finding the Italian or French or German counterpart to Curious George/babar the elephant creates a bit too much time in bookstores, but i'll gladly trade that for any desire to buy designer goods in places like Paris.
wish my wife would have shopped for childrens books in paris/florence instead of clothes and bags.
Posted on 7/15/16 at 10:20 am to LSUfan4444
Currently my wife collects magnets and we also keep all our our tickets (train, plane, etc) from since we got married.
I always thought it'd be cool to decorate our house by shipping back a piece of furniture from each country. Sadly, thus far this hasn't happened.
I always thought it'd be cool to decorate our house by shipping back a piece of furniture from each country. Sadly, thus far this hasn't happened.
Posted on 7/15/16 at 10:34 am to theOG
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shopped for childrens books in paris/florence instead of clothes and bags.
What a great idea. We bought our daughter a porcelain tea set from Paris on our last trip..came with a basket and everything. It's in the attic now but something she can pass down to her daughter.
Posted on 7/15/16 at 11:08 am to ellunchboxo
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My wife gets Christmas ornaments from wherever we go.
We could take a trip to a nearby suburb and my GF would want to stop and look for an ornament.
Posted on 7/15/16 at 1:07 pm to LSUfan4444
We get our kids patches for their backpacks for all the places they've been.
Posted on 7/15/16 at 1:21 pm to Pettifogger
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We could take a trip to a nearby suburb and my GF would want to stop and look for an ornament.
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