Money being tight for most these days, What do you buy for a most useful souvenir?,,Coffee, rum, a grinder, a case of rizzla?. Im interested in everyones tastes..and ideas on whats most useful. puff puff.
Money being tight for most these days, What do you buy for a most useful souvenir?,,Coffee, rum, a grinder, a case of rizzla?. Im interested in everyones tastes..and ideas on whats most useful. puff puff.
We bought a big metal laddle from L&M. Beth wanted it for when we make shrimp boils in the summer. Right now it looks nice hanging from the pot rack.
Last edited by Kevin, PA; 02-18-2012 at 10:08 AM.
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coffee, JA sugar, spices, jewelry, shells found on beach, dominos, homemade CDs with latest music, Coco butter lotion,
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I like rasta necklaces. You can bargain down to about two dollars each if you buy a few at a time or more .... Also, Lion Pride papers are only 50j -- less than half price compared to USA (and bigger papers too).
I'd go with the puff-puff.........oh if ya could only take it home lol.
I like to buy Bob Marley t-shirts....clothes are useful and everyone loves a Bob T - especially when they can say it was purchased in JA!
Food items are always a big hit and inexpensive - we are bringing back 15 pounds of coffee this year (usually 30, but it was overkill as we found out) so some of that goes out as gifts - REAL nutmeg in the shell with the mace accompanied by a nutmeg grater - Pimento Berries (aka Allspice) - not the packaged kind, the kind we buy from the guy "in the street" - and of course sauces that cannot be bought easily in California such as Pick-A-Peppa's Mango and Ginger Sauces. This year when traveling on the North Coast I picked up a couple of "cocoa balls" - unsweetened Jamaican chocolate compressed into medium sized balls, perfect for grating and using in baking AND savory cooking.
I collect sea glass and sea shells and spend a few weeks making jewelry and wall hangings as gifts as well - and of course some of those special photos that hub makes - we frame those and give those as gifts as well.
I get jewelry from certain vendors for their uniqueness and give those as gifts as well (I bought a pair of really cool conch shell earrings for my housesitter - the goddess of the home and cats for months and months...)
Spices, coffee, wood carvings, sea shells from vendors walking the beach. I agree food is a big hit, pipes for toker friends. I did Christmas shopping last time and I intend to keep my eyes open again this reach.
Awaiting our return to Negril, 07/01/12
I used to bring home grace's ketchup, but the carry it in the states now, but I think this next trip I am gonna grab a bottle, ja ketchup it's sweeter. The stuff up here in the states is made in canada, not the same. I always bring home two boxes of lion pride papers. I also used always bring home glass pipes. I used to get nice pipes for under 10 bucks us, that would sell in a head shop here for 30. But now my local gas stations gets same kinda of pipes for around the same price now. I always bring home new creative items people make. Like the bird feeders made out of a coconut. Rasta bowls and cups. carved usefull things, if I find anything cool in the sea like shells. I also bring home sugar, raw stuff. I have brought KFC and patties home before in the past. KFC on a plane, tuff, but the chicken tastes so much different, my grand father couldn't make it ja, so I brought him some patties and KFC. FYI, burger king and KFC taste different in Jamaica because they use ja products. Some times I bring home tru juice, like sour sop juice.
Jewelry, carvings, ketchup, spices, coffee, and rum cream.
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