What's your favorite xmas ornament?

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3. Everywhere I travel, if I can, I always buy 4 things

A t-shirt, a smashed penny, a fridge magnet, and a Christmas ornament that has something to do with the place I've visited. Sometimes, the best I can find are stuff that's made in China for whatever attraction I'm buying it at (like the Alamo). Other times they're handmade but not that original like a small Xmas tree inside a piece of glass made by the expert glass guy at the North Pole Amusement Park in Colorado (a place I visited as a child and then again two years ago when I went on vacation). Other times, they're just silly like a corn cob with a hat and a beard I got from the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, but they remind me of places and people I've visited over the years.

A few years ago, mom passed, and she was a packrat. We came across all the Xmas ornaments we had growing up as a kid - at least the ones that weren't completely broken. I took them, and I plan to go through them in the new year. I hope that I can get repaired a musical bell - you pulled the klaxon, and as the string it was on rewound, it played a Christmas tune, like a music box. It's just a silly piece of plastic, but it brings back a lot of good memories. The one thing I wish we had kept was a gingerbread house. Actually, I don't know if it was a gingerbread house as it was completely covered in white icing with little square candies making up the roof tiles, etc. It was made by a family friend, but I don't think it was preserved well. After about 10 years, it was disintegrating so we tossed it. I loved that thing.

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