what useful souvenir are you buying while traveling?

We bought maple syrup and some magnets and some photos of Niagara Falls from Canada.
But what we really impressed about Canada was that many items are cheaper than America in Costco.
Sensodyne toothpaste was a lot cheaper so we bought some there.🤭
My husband and I laughed at each other for useful souvenir....

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Surely there is no such thing as a useful souvenir!

Eyeinthesky · 56-60, F

@ninalanyon It was our first time for buying cheaper items compare to America...😁

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Eyeinthesky I have some souvenirs from our time in China in the late 1980s. One of them is a tube of toothpaste; but it isn't useful because I will never use it!

If you use it then surely it isn't the toothpaste but the tube it came in that is the souvenir :-)

Eyeinthesky · 56-60, F

@ninalanyon You always have to careful about Chinese products..where did you go?
I really enjoyed Shanghai few years ago... regret I didn't get a chance to visit Beijing at that time.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Eyeinthesky In no particular order, and using more than one spelling convention: Canton, Shanghai, Fuzhou, Jiexi, Ningbo, Bejing, Hangzhou, Shantou, Jinan, and briefly several other place en route.

Eyeinthesky · 56-60, F

@ninalanyon Im sure you had all the great local dishes while traveling China... 😋

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Eyeinthesky Had some but I drew the line at fried bees and pigeon heads. Had dog, also had frogs legs, and a snake. But most other dishes were more conventional. In some places we taught the locals how to make some things that we liked from home.

Eyeinthesky · 56-60, F

@ninalanyon What a great experience you had...very adventurous👏💚

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Eyeinthesky I was there on business, didn't really have any choice about exactly where I went. But it was a great adventure, long before China became the economic power that it is now.