Tell me about a novelty item you have in your home.

I have a glow-in-the-dark statue if the Virgin Mary. It’s just a couple inches tall and unobtrusive. It sits in my kitchen, blessing my culinary creations. I’ve had it for years.

We also have an Evil Queen Tiffany style lamp, which few people notice and think its just a regular lamp.

A bottle of “Cheap Red Wine”, which is actually pretty good.

A “stuffed moose head” is on the wall (although this one is slightly different).

PaulParkhead got me a set of egg cups for Christmas that are in the shape of camper vans. :wink: Too cute.

I’ve got a fake gold ingot door-stop.

Lessee…

A “half a cup of coffee” mug.

A [del]cudgel[/del] “tire thumper” I got at the World Famous I-80 Truck Stop.

An owl lamp.

A goose figurine that looks over the edge of the shelf.

I have a rattlesnake mug just like Craig Ferguson’s, that I purchased at the International Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque (I live in a suburb of ABQ).

I also have a very large (48" base to tip) set of elk antlers that I found in the woods in western New Mexico.

Bunches o’stuff. Favorites?

I took a cute pink teddy bear and my beanie octopus, stitched them together and made a cute chthlu.

I have a microfiber Bert that I use as a pillow. Unlike the prop from NCIS, no studded collar. =)

I have a coffee table with a glass top that holds a bunch of little crap, a gold Roman coin, Vespasian on one side, a cow on the other. A scarab from a tomb a guy I was dating was digging in, he brought it back for me - he got to keep a bunch of the little odd ceramic stuff the Egyptian government didn’t want. [pre Zahi Hawass], a small oil lamp from a dig in Israel somewhere, or I should say Palestine, I got it from my Grandfather when he was still alive, he got it when he and my Grandmother did an around the world deal when they got married in 1921. Small collection of knives, also picked up on the same trip.

Blow gun and darts [with a little golfball sized gourd of what I would assume is some sort of poison like curare] from the Huaoroni. [My grandparents knew the Elliot family.] I also have a hammock with monkey bone bars at the ends from the same source - it is too old and fragile to use any longer.

On my messenger bag I mark the zipper pull for the compartment that I keep the little metal case that holds my ID and plastic with atritium source.

My wife has a coconut bra and hula skirt that we bought as a souvenir when we went to Hawaii. She wore it once, immediately after we got back, as a lark, and it has sat in the closet ever since.

We also have a business card holder that we got in Newfoundland which is made of caribou antler, moose antler and whalebone. We don’t have any business cards, but it pretty much cried out to us (mainly me), “If you don’t buy me while you’re here, you’ll forever regret you passed up the opportunity.”

Our house is full of stuff like that. I have a collection of round things, spherical actually. They’re various lights, plasma globes, a levitating globe, just things that are basically spherical in shape. Why? Because I’m strange that’s why. We also have a plastic iguana hanging on the wall next to a machete. He looks so real you’d think it was an actual iguana dipped in plastic. Sometimes he hangs off of other things too. I have a collection of hot sauces, over 200 bottles now, if that counts. We used to have a stuffed bird sitting on top of the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, not sure whatever happened to him. Lots of other fake animals too, little plastic mice, snakes, insects turn up all over the place. My wife has a collection of blue bottles. Nothing special about them, just glass bottles that are cobalt blue. I could go on, there’s stuff everywhere here.

I have a Happy Apple toy that I pulled out of the trash heap in front of my house during its reconstruction after Hurricane Andrew. It’s one of my few “pre Hurricane” toys and I jealously and selfishly have kept it away from my baby sister and multiple cousins, all of whom it belonged to at one point and all of whom want it back because it’s “theirs.”

MINE. MY HAPPY APPLE.

I have a parking meter, a gumball machine, and a drive-in movie speaker. The gumball machine works, dispenses pretzel M&Ms well. Haven’t tested the meter or speaker.

Were those deliberate acquisitions, or did you find them in the grill of your car? :smiley:

I have much junk- including a 2 foot inflatable grasshopper attached to a 4 foot model leaf, overhead in the stairwell, and a large wicker frog, currently wearing a propellor beanie.

Haha, no they were delibarate, from a flea market.

A few things here and there, my favorite is this Sherlock Holmes statue. It’s about 18 inches tall, and, yes, he has a huge head.

I’ve got a stuffed Black Beast of Aaarrrggghhh on top of my computer hutch at home.

At the office, I have a Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch on my windowsill.

I have a pair of giant foam hands from the band Supersuckers. The hands are similar to the ones formerly seen at sporting events, with the extended index finger-- we’re #1!
Only these have the index and pinky fingers extended in the rock and roll “devil horns” salute. I brought them to a Farm Aid concert that the Supersuckers played at. They were not acknowledged from the stage.

We have a lot of random stuff, not so much novelty items as souvenirs of our travels. My husband collects hats, so we have a bunch of those lying around (including a Hamid Karzai hat). We also have a number of replica Japanese haniwa funerary statues, an authentic Song-dynasty bowl (a crappy government-issue one used to serve lunch to bureaucrats), and a Thai dance crown with, somewhat inexplicably, a papier-mache pigeon head on top of it.

The thing that gets the most notice/comment, though, is the solar-powered prayer wheel sitting above the kitchen sink, which came from a souvenir vendor at Famen Temple in Shaanxi. (She tried to upsell me the extra-blingy one, but I resisted.)

Inflatable Toast.

Statue of Teonanacatl, the Aztec god of shrooms

A Cthulhu helmet I made myself

A foot stool wearing sneakers

3 Cypress knees

Rodan, hanging from the ceiling

The Enterprise D- also hanging from the ceiling

A variety of toy and plush and inflatable bats- all hanging from the corner ceiling

The “Dogburster” alien from Alien 3, climbing on the ceiling

A 2 foot high statue of Don Quixote

A brass vessel- apparently used to offer milk to the divine in Hindu ceremonies

2 cans of PC 7 epoxy- I love the atom logo

A singing and dancing Larry The Cucumber

A Dark Tower- from the boardgame

A display green Roswell alien head from Alien Pops lolipops

remote control battling sumos

A batman pillow- I made it from an old t shirt

Big Bad Franky- a 2 foot tall toy that comes with gears in his chest and a space in his head to store tools

D’Compose- 2 foot tall monster figure from The Inhumanoids cartoon

Metlar- From the same cartoon

A coonskin cap

A Marvin Martian bobblehead

A wire recorder- For a brief time in the forties they made these huge machines to record sound on spools of copper wire.

My Father’s computer from the seventies. It still works

2 plasmaglobes

A ball of lightning bulb

A tornado lamp

I could go on and most likely will in a future post.