# Tell me about a novelty item you have in your home. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 31, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815 "2013-05-31T21:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/21 "2013-06-01T01:24:11Z")
A wind-up T-Rex that plays “Death March for a Marionette” is the only thing currently on display, ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/22 "2013-06-01T01:32:25Z")
An SPL meter (with A/C weighting, slow/fast response, record feature, min/max membrane, manual measurement range options, and a little analog-like meter on the bottom) precise to the 0.1 dB with a measurement range of 40 ~ 130 dB. The only downside to it that matters to me is there is no LED back light, which makes it extremely difficult to read in dark locations, so it’s a good idea to take your flashlight with it. This [exact](http://www.sercal-testequipmentsales.co.uk/ekmps/shops/sercalelectron/images/atp-instrumentation-sl-8928-auto-ranging-sound-level-meter-2530-p.jpg) model. It’s a cool and handy instrument to have, especially if you plan on going to loud places. If anyone’s interested, you can easily find one on eBay real cheap (~$15) but it’s actually not a bad quality instrument. It’s even being sold at $100+ on some sites. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/23 "2013-06-01T01:58:38Z")
Remember [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=416220) from a while back where one of the tacky items on eBay was a Nativity scene, except there was a Westy and a Cat? It was called “Nativity Pets.” Well fellow dopers, I don’t think I’ve ever admitted this before, but I [bought it](http://www.flickr.com/photos/34943992@N00/8907412613/lightbox/). ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/24 "2013-06-01T02:10:21Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Remember [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=416220) from a while back where one of the tacky items on eBay was a Nativity scene, except there was a Westy and a Cat? It was called “Nativity Pets.” Well fellow dopers, I don’t think I’ve ever admitted this before, but I [bought it](http://www.flickr.com/photos/34943992@N00/8907412613/lightbox/). Haha, that’s awesome. Have you ever seen the site Regretsy? It showcases the worst of Etsy (and occasionally other sites) and sometimes people will buy the stuff just because it’s so bad. Not me though, my [tiger](http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y447/Blackberro/19061_243285053480_8199808_n_zps9b3c3d79.jpg) is enough. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/25 "2013-06-01T02:10:56Z")
I’ve got a replica of a human skull on top of a bookcase, but that’s it. Actually, I’m pretty sure alt.fan.cecil-adams is how I found it, over a decade ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/26 "2013-06-01T02:14:38Z")
We have a ceramic teapot of the “Dogs Playing Poker.” We have a stuffed duck that says “Aflac!” when you squeeze it. We have a talking Ozzie Osbourne figurine. We have a magnetic sign on our front door that says “Hippies use side door.” All our really good stuff is in storage. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/27 "2013-06-01T02:28:05Z")
Crikey, my entire apartment is crammed with such stuff! Just to name two: a framed box of Pillsbury’s “Tunnel of Fudge” bundt cake. “It’s lovin’ from the oven.” I have seldom laughed so hard! In the same vein, a small kitchen knife, in its original packaging, which reads, “Six Inch Boner.” Hey, every guy ought to have one… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/28 "2013-06-01T03:30:46Z")
I’ve got [Tetris Lamp](http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f034/) (which isn’t very good at serving as a lamp) in my living room, a cricket bat signed by Ade Edmondson (([http://www.theclashblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ade.jpg](http://www.theclashblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ade.jpg))) in the front entry way, and a [Black Knight “bop” bag](http://www.entertainmentearth.com/item_archive/items/Monty_Python_Black_Knight_Talking_Bop_Bag.asp) in my office (which I don’t use as a punching bag because it scares the dog.) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/29 "2013-06-01T03:44:05Z")
I save all my burlap ten-pound Basmati rice bags, and hang them on the wall. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/30 "2013-06-01T03:48:00Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I just wanted to say this thread inspired me to buy an octopus ice-cube tray. We’ve got one that make “cubes” of Stewie’s head. > **[Family Guy Stewie Ice Cube Tray - GeekAlerts](https://www.geekalerts.com/stewie-ice-cube-tray/)** > > If you plan on throwing a “sexy party” this holiday season, don’t forget to include the little guy with the football shaped head. Yeah, I’m talking about Family Guy’s Stewie and the Stewie Ice Cube Tray. Stewie has been trying to take over the world... ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/31 "2013-06-01T04:09:08Z")
We have a bunch of whimsical child-made ceramic and metal sculptures on display, but aside from those, there’s the [DEVO action figure](http://www.swag-inc.com/shop/media/catalog/product/cache/9/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/s/i/single_photo-front-2.jpg) with interchangeable heads (autographed!) and the [Invader Zim house box set](http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/281/3/7/invader_zim_box_set __1__ by_squeekbot-d30cfcn.jpg), complete with Gir figurine. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/32 "2013-06-01T04:14:19Z")
I have a caribou horn a friend brought me from Alaska. With collectibles I’ve picked up here and there I made it into a mobile and hung it from the ceiling. From it dangle various gew-gaws made of twisted copper wire and semi-precious stones, dream catchers, little noah bells, teensy brass leaves and glass wind chimes. Some people come in and say, “Wow! That’s cool.” Others say, “Um. Interesting.” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/33 "2013-06-01T04:54:28Z")
My whole house is full of novelties. 😛 Three current favorites: Sonic Screwdrivers (the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors’ versions) A plastic, highly realistic severed arm caught from and signed by author Chuck Palahniuk. A string of silver plastic beads tossed into the audience by Alice Cooper at a concert. ---
**Author:** ![nion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nion)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/34 "2013-06-01T04:59:49Z")
I have a bonified, fully operational candy machine in a corner of the dining room. It currently offers runts, skittles and Reeses pieces. Each is appropriately labeled, and is 25 cents per serving. Not currently on display are animation cels from Ren and Stimpy, the Real Ghostbusters, Bravestarr, and Spongebob Squarepants. I’m going to get them framed “some day.” I love that for one of the Bravestarr cels and the Spongebob cel, I can point out its frame in the actual episode. I also have pretty much the entire series of Haunted Mansion toy scenes tucked away. I’ve not the room to display them, alas. I also have the infamous Billy Ripken “fuck face” baseball card in a place of honor in my bedroom. Near that are my tins of Mentats and Fixer. A pile of Nuka Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle caps sit before them. The opposite side of that shelf is home to the coasters from the New Vegas casinos. I’ll be getting the super duper special collectors edition of the game eventually for the deck of cards and casino chips to finish the diorama. I used to have a brotherhood of steel helmet, but had to sell it to make ends meet at one point. Wow, I’m more interesting than I thought! 😃 Especially my bedroom. Heh… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/35 "2013-06-01T06:05:58Z")
'72 Volvo P1800, Coyote pelt (I killed it, wife skinned/tanned it), Indiana Jones Pinball (but we play the shit out of it!), motorcycle tire with a 18" rusty spike thru it, Old-School JBL studio monitors (I play the shit out of them, too!), funky old green pottery vase I found in the desert… Lots of shit, come to think about it… Our place is “TGIFridays” meets “Storage Wars” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/36 "2013-06-01T06:28:22Z")
This levitating globe. [Photo Gallery](http://www.onlyglobes.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=SN891090) This working knock-off of a melting Dali clock: [http://www.amazon.com/New-Haven-Melting-Bronze-Sitter/dp/B002GB0G8W/ref=pd\_sim\_sbs\_hg\_4](http://www.amazon.com/New-Haven-Melting-Bronze-Sitter/dp/B002GB0G8W/ref=pd_sim_sbs_hg_4) A foot tall, less-than-perfect version of the famous Notre Dame spitting gargoyle. A copy of a vintage Pepsi-Cola metal advertising sign. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/37 "2013-06-01T06:30:39Z")
I have a collection of sonic the hedgehog shot glasses that, while they have been used, are really just sitting out (or were before I packed them up and will be again) for decoration and not use. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/38 "2013-06-01T08:00:48Z")
My house is full of novelties. I have no desire to decorate like a grownup. 🙂 I have a collection of weird snowglobes. My most recent find is Santa with a christmas tree on Noah’s ark. [http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/7/9/0/3/6/webimg/637440288\_tp.jpg](http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/6/7/9/0/3/6/webimg/637440288_tp.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/39 "2013-06-01T10:32:16Z")
I have a ceramic serving bowl in the shape of a cabbage, it sits on a cabbage leaf plate and has a cabbage leaf cover with a rabbit on it. My grandmother made it in years ago, it looks like a Beatrix Potter knock-off. I also have a picture of Mona Lisa wearing a garlic necklace that I got at a garlic cafe. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815/40 "2013-06-01T11:34:57Z")
I got [one o these.](http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110317221532/indianajones/images/6/63/Chachapoyan_Fertility_Idol.jpg) Only plastic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-a-novelty-item-you-have-in-your-home/659815.md?page=3)