# What do you buy for yourself, on vacation?

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**Created:** [May 3, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-buy-for-yourself-on-vacation/402659 "2007-05-03T20:01:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-buy-for-yourself-on-vacation/402659/41 "2007-05-06T13:33:28Z")

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In a couple of weeks I’m going on holiday to Azerbaijan. I’ll be buying probably five or six carpets. Sometimes people call me strange 😃

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-buy-for-yourself-on-vacation/402659/42 "2007-05-06T15:18:31Z")

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[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin]  
In a couple of weeks I’m going on holiday to Azerbaijan. I’ll be buying probably five or six carpets. Sometimes people call me strange 😃  
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Not at all, and your post reminds me- I’m a hypocrite. I DID travel once and buy for everyone, as well as our home. A job in Marrakech came up. I did the trip to the local antiquities store. The basement was filed with ( no kidding ) tens of thousands of small kneeling carpets. Sold to the tourists. There were also more pricey and unique larger carpets to be seen. I bought 10 kneeling carpets and then went looking for a large one to use as a wall hanging, for our home. It is roughly 7 feet by 7 feet and is obviously made of hand-dyed lots of wool. I was so captivated by it’s beauty that when told the price, I only hesitated for 5 minutes. ( I’m not wealthy. The thing was pricey. ) It is a work of art the likes of which I’ve rarely seen hanging on a wall. I STILL sit and look at it sometimes at dinner, which tells me I chose wisely. Usually I do not really look at the art in my home very much, even the art I made.

So, admittedly, I bought rugs and an ancient pounded silver necklace for my wife and a silver bracelet for myself on that trip. Rare trip, that one.

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