# Travel souvenirs - do you have a favorite type? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-souvenirs-do-you-have-a-favorite-type/960750 "2022-03-09T13:52:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 86
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-souvenirs-do-you-have-a-favorite-type/960750/86 "2022-03-11T07:48:54Z")
Years ago, the question about shopping lists for folks at home came up here: > [@How does duty free shopping work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-duty-free-shopping-work/94172): > > My sister is going overseas for Christmas, and we’re going to go Duty Free shopping - I desperately want to buy a digital camera and Gucci glasses but Cath is less than happy about the prospect of lugging my stuff around for her trip. Now I have a vague idea of how Duty Free shopping works (I think). You go with your plane ticket to the Duty Free store and you get substantial discounts on cigarettes, perfume, sunglasses, electronics, etc. As soon as you take the items out of the country and you… As for me, I’ve always thought that it would not be appropriate to ask a friend going someplace to bring me something. But if they offer to, that’s another matter. One time, a friend went to Cuba. He doesn’t smoke, but he knew I enjoyed a good cigar, and asked if I’d like a box of Havana cigars. Not as a gift; he made it clear that I’d pay him for them, but they’d be less expensive than what I was paying for them at home. I said “Yes” and told him the brand and size I’d like. When he returned, he had the box of cigars I had requested, told me what they cost, and I paid him the Canadian dollar equivalent in cash. (I’m in Canada, so the cigars were perfectly legal.) But he asked, I said “yes,” and he delivered. That’s a lot different than saying “Bring me a box of cigars,” clear out of the blue. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-souvenirs-do-you-have-a-favorite-type/960750)._