Tackiest Souvenir?

[LSLGuy]

Here is a thread from nigh 20 years ago on tacky souvenirs we might enjoy.

Tacky Tourist Treasures

There are the standard souveniers we all see on our travels: little spoons, big mugs, T-shirts, other geegaws all proudly proclaiming they’re from the area from which they are sold but are actually all made in Chinese factories. (Wouldn’t it be funny to go to China and find a souvenier made in the US or maybe France?) Every once in a while, however, we’ve all come across the occasional item that is so ugly, tacky or lame that you can only think, “What the f*** were they thinking?” I used to w…

I just today noticed that the person who posted that tacky souvenir thread was named “Tikki”. For completeness I wonder where “Rikki” is now?

As to your questions.

1. Don’t think anyone has ever brought me a souvenir since I was a kid. And not many of those.

2. I have very few now, tacky or otherwise, having cleared most of that out when I last moved. I do have a well-faded coffee cup from the Wichita world series of the national amateur baseball league from about 1990. it’s not so much tacky as getting bedraggled.

3. Can’t say I recall. I was never much for bringing back random gifts for folks. Most recently I bought a ~12" plush shark at the Miami Seaquarium to send to another Doper’s ~5yo grandkid who was just ga-ga about sharks. She loved it.

4. Not exactly souvenirs, but the few remaining physical mementos from my late first wife.

5. I collect nothing except scars. Never understood the attraction of collecting. Or of most souvenirs.

Sorry to be a bit of a Debbie Downer, but there you have it. Not trying to threadshit. Mostly I wanted to share that fun old thread your OP reminded me instantly of.