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ABOVE: Cute hat, and a cute kid, but will the boy wear the cap back home? Mistake #8: Buying useless souvenirs
What we are discouraging is the purchase of souvenirs that fall into these two categories:
Next page: Being careless with valuables.
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First,
a disclaimer: We aren't discouraging the purchase of silly or impractical
souvenirs per se. After all, there was hardly anything useful about the cheap
miniature gondolier's hat that we bought our dog Maggie, except for its value as
a photo prop in our 
In
the first category, one notorious example is the ubiquitous (but non-Venetian)
jester's hat. Stuffed multipronged fleece caps with bells or tassles may
irresistible to young sports fans and tourists, but how many buyers will wear
such hats when they're back in Buffalo, Bristol, or Brisbane?
In
the second category, we include carnival masks with long beaks, Murano glass
objects that are much larger than a necklace, and other souvenirs that are
likely to get squashed, broken, or left behind in a fit of buyer's remorse.
Our
advice: 
