We’ve all been talked out of souvenir purchases. “It’s too big to carry home.” “It’s way too expensive.” “What are you going to do with that once you get home?” Occasionally, it’s for the best that you didn’t pull the trigger on that impulse buy (such as when I almost very drunkenly got a tattoo of the Yebisu beer logo while in Osaka, Japan). But more often than not, you end up regretting not taking home that special item.

So, justify that purchase. Negotiate a better price with the shopkeeper. Take home whatever you damn well please. If I had it to do over again, I’d find the $385 needed to take home that sweet taxidermy tableau above. Sigh.