@RickiTarr So many novelty coffee cups at the second-hand store. Daughter and I, when she was maybe 4-5, cruised these stores one day to muster a “proper” tea set. What a hodgepodge haul we ended up with, and then we had a fine tea party that afternoon. She’s her own young woman and I’m an old man now, but those cups won’t be going back.
@ccdudley85 A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V; you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
@RickiTarr And it was made in China for 47 cents, sold for $2.50 to a distributor, $4.85 to the retailer who will sell it to you for $9.95. So you are paying about 20x markup on the junk to boot.
The best advice I ever read was to visit the thrift stores near the major resorts to buy your memorabilia. Need a Mickey shirt when you visit Orlando? Get it preshrunk and for $5 at a Thrift store or ebay.
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I used to be a sucker for German beer glasses and mugs. Some of them get used from time to time, but the souvenir Maßkrugs (1 litre, decorated ceramic) just lurk at the back of a cupboard.
The ceramic mug purchased from a chain coffee place on a family emergency trip to South Dakota in 2017 so you wouldn't have to keep using horrible hotel disposable cups, but it's such a good size that you kept it and use it often at home even though you'd never patronize the same shop at home...
... and the ones you've bought just so you can see how they're constructed (especially the handles) bc you never quite got mug making or handles down in pottery class.
I had a really kickass novelty mug that was bowling-themed, and the handle was a bowling pin. However, the handle was hollow, so anytime you poured hot liquid into it, it was scalding hot and completely unusable. That ended up going to Goodwill.
Then there are the Halloween mugs (not pictured). Those come out in September!
This Wake 'n' Bake mug followed me from Canada when I was deported, and remains in my possession to this day. I picked it up in Regina, SK, and it has been used on numerous occasions, the last one being on the 20th of this month.
I realize this is probably the exception, not the rule.
You're not supposed to *use the mug. You add it to you collection in the curio cabinet so when company comes acallin' they can see all the places you've been!
@RickiTarr mugs do count in my cupboard. Mugs count a lot, cause they’re lovely and useful. Mugs count so much there’s no space for anything else. Open the cupboard and it’s all mugs. All mugs! All. Mugs…
@RickiTarr They truly are, Ricki. I haven't traveled to many places, but the few that I have gone to I bought a mug as a souvenir. And yes, I have drunk coffee in all of them... And mind you, only the finest...CHEAP coffee in all of them...
@RickiTarr Confession: I've never bought a souvenir from any of the places I've travelled to. Am I weird? Am I letting the entire souvenir economy down?
@RickiTarr 100% of what I buy on vacation ends up in my belly before I leave. Well, okay, maybe I occasionally bring some sweets home if there's something I particularly enjoyed that isn't available here. But they also disappear sharpish.
@RickiTarr Can confirm. I took home a novelty cup from a party last year and did not use it once, forgot multiple times that it existed. It went to Goodwill.
@RickiTarr too beautiful to roundfile . The finish is chipping off so I couldn't use it for drinking unless it was the only thing that survived a disaster.
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The rule I grew up with tells me you’re a cup. But that’s just me. You very likely have a similar, but apposite rule that you grew up with. Wars have been fought over smaller differences of interpretation. Let’s not go there.🙏🏻
@benroyce@RickiTarr Because of New Orleans population, they were exempt from the Blue Laws on Alcohol there ( corrupt politicians also know the rep it has for liquor and tourism )lol 😁👍😉
@wlf_warren@benroyce We have a tiny town in Missouri where the largest business is a distillery, and they have allow drinking all over town, because part of the tasting is a cocktail to take with you lol
new orleans had filipinos for a LONG time. they'd take manila galleons over in the 1700s, go awol, and settle in the mississippi delta and live off shrimping
they joined the pirate jean lafitte in the war of 1812, fighting for andrew jackson
and they influenced the creation of new orleans cuisine
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