Wherever we travelled on vacation as a family when I was growing up, we would only stop at restaurants with a gift shop attached, or at least within walking distance. My mother would always buy something blue. It didn't matter what it was, as long as it was blue. Fortunately, she had good taste, so it was never too high on the tacky scale, but it was always blue.
Other families collect stuff--thimbles, spoons, teacups, tee shirts, hats, postcards, scarves, hotel towels, sea shells, and the list goes on. People buy racks, shelves, display cases, and books to show their collections to any willing friends. Some people start a new collection of something every couple of years, and end up trying to pawn them off as collectables in a tag sale, or yard sale. Flea market vendors have tables full of one-of-a-kind "collectables" that smell like they were forgotten in someone's barn for forty years or so.
So what is your vacation travel collection? Something tacky? Something useful, or just whatever looks beautiful to you? Whatever it is, I'm sure it's valuable.
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