Inexpensive Souvenirs

[LVT]

I enjoy the WDW themed D-rings. I use D-rings in various places and like having momentos instead of "D"s.

[Altair]

Cell phone charms at $5. I have three hanging from my camera bag.

[joonyer]

We are not big time pin traders/collectors, but we get a pin or two on every trip, usually a dated or event themed one. They are less than $10. It's a good way to look back and remember our trips. We also love the Disney Christmas Ornaments, but we have spent good bit on those, so I wouldn't call them inexpensive.


We also have a good collection of the pressed pennies and we also get a new antenna topper or two every trip.

[EJS-Houston]

This may not be what you had in mind, but my photos are the best souvenirs of all...and now that we're in the era of digital cameras, it doesn't cost me one thin dime to take all the photos I want. At the end of the vacation, then, I get to make a slide CD of the entire vacation that I can watch and relive the experience whenever I want...plus I get to give copies to my friends and family who go to DisneyWorld with me.

[figmagination]

My favorite is a pin set I got one year. It consists of 4 pins. It was the Villains Being Bad. The set had Hades, Jafar, Maleficent, and Chernabog. Knowing the average costs of pins, this could be considered pricey to some. I got Hades, Jafar, and Maleficent in one trip. It took 2 trips to find the Chernabog pin! The year I got the others the CM we asked had a book with a list of pins, and it said it was retired. Two trips later, I believe we were in one of the shops on Main Street and I found it. The villains are my favorites, and this set is up there with my favorite souvenirs.

[kemps@wdw]

oh gosh...let's see...
room freebies (soap, shampoos, towel animals, etc...)
I also collect any coasters, food tissue paper (clean, of course), napkins, paper menus, and receipts for my scrapbooks, park maps that I use to make a one-of-a-kind WDW property map to frame and hang, thousands of photos, and, oh yeah, the "family" car window decals with the family members, including pets, with the Mickey ears on!

[Fastpasssteve]

On our last trip, I brought home some caramel corn from Germany. Yeah...that didn't work out the way I planned, for I had eaten most of it before we landed back in Philadelphia.

If I have any left over Fast Passes in my pocket at the end of the trip, they make great items to put in a scrapbook...along with my plastic room key/park ticket.

[mom2mickeyfan]

I love the magnets with the year on them. It is one of the things I make sure I get every time we go. I get to see them all the time since they always go on my frig. The other thing I always get is the 4x6 photo album with the year. We started about 3 years ago getting my DS (age 5 now) a Disney Racer every year. I'm now on the hunt for a display case for them that I can hang on his wall.

[KAJUNKING]

We get the fridge magnets, and my wife really likes all the stuff for the kitchen, I also like to collect the watches you can get for like ten bucks with a certain purchase we always look for those deals

[Terra]

Popcorn buckets

LOVE those!! They make great bathtub toys or hot wheels cars holders!

I like collecting Christmas tree ornaments at WDW. They're not that expensive (though not as inexpensive as some ideas here) and every family member picks one out. When the kids leave home, they will take their ornaments with them and have a start on their own holiday traditions.

Yes! I've been slowly buying one here and there! I would love an all Disney tree one day!

There is a shop in DTD between two buildings(more of a breezeway) that has many discounted items including a grad bag. I think it was $10 the last time I was there. You always get a variety of pens / pencils / stickers / etc. Well worth the $10 and a great mystery until you can open up the bag.

Love that shop!!

Some of favs are my coffee mugs. I try to get one each time we go. $10 is a good price My keychains and dishes/cups for the boys!!

[AmandaChan]

I have a perfect one! At the Japan pavilion at the cash register in the very back you can get either a pink or blue decorated tea cup and they write your name on it in Japanese for only $2.00.. MIL got both me and SIL one. They used it for a shot glass. heh.

I think it 's a perfect little very cheap gift for friends at home.. If I would have thought of it at the time I would have gotten my 6 nieces one.

[LynBug]

This may not be what you had in mind, but my photos are the best souvenirs of all...and now that we're in the era of digital cameras, it doesn't cost me one thin dime to take all the photos I want. At the end of the vacation, then, I get to make a slide CD of the entire vacation that I can watch and relive the experience whenever I want...plus I get to give copies to my friends and family who go to DisneyWorld with me.

I agree! The photos are always the best thing to look back on We also like to keep things like our "key to the world" card, our luggage tags, plane tickets, park maps, and things like that for our scrapbook.

As far as things to buy, we also collect the anntena toppers and Christmas onraments. I also have to buy a picture frame every year

[sixshot19]

Mine aren't cheap, but I LOVE the handpainted animation cels from the animation store in Disney studios.

[IamBelle]

For a completely free souvenir, head to the Art of Disney Animation at DHS. They have an Animation Academy, where you learn how to draw one of your favorite Disney characters! We go at least once every trip! It is so much fun to do and you get to keep your drawing! It is a tradition in my family to go every trip, its fun to see how much better we are getting at drawing!! Out of all the times we have went, we have only repeated a character once.

For someone at home, you can send them a email video postcard for free! You can find it at Innoventions and I think there is also one at the end of Mission:Space...

[ShanPooh]

A couple people already mentioned the pressed pennies. Those are a favorite with our kids.

Along with photos, I'll say - postcards.

Someone a few years ago mentioned picking up a couple extra napkins at each meal. They would slowly use them throughout the year to prolong their Disney fix

[MNNHFLTX]

I like the keychains with the little foam mickey heads on them. I usually pick up several during each trip and then cycle them through as they wear out. My favorites have been from Animal Kingdom, where you can get them with leopard and zebra prints on them, but the patriotic ones are fun too. And every time I pull my keys out of my purse, I get a smile on my face.

[Susan A]

I clear out the resort of all the free stuff, too! My dad brought home a stack of paper Mickey coasters on year.

I have also gotten packs of pens/pencils. When you break them up and give them out as gifts, it turns out to be an ok deal.

[heatherj1025]

The first time my daughter went with her grandma she brought me a Norse horse keychain(2006). Let me tell ya that little sucker will leave a bruise if it hits you but it has lasted all these years on my keys.
U can find bargains in most of the shops if you just look hard enough. Our last trip was 2008 and I got my daughter the cutest little princess shirt marked from 19 or 20 down to 10. She outgrew it two years ago but refuses to part with it. Lol
I bought souveniers for 8 people and charged tips for 5 dinners and only spent 375.00 and as y'all know about 150 (only 3 of us) was for tips.

[SandmanGStefani24]

i have always liked little nick nacks from the World Showcase that were unique and that I hadnt seen before. (strange candy, at first, then other items)

Now however I am more into pins and the die cast vehicles, specifically ride vehicles and the WDW transport buses. One glance at them and I'm back home.

So many little things that one doesn't really have a need for, but that we have to have because it makes us feel closer to WDW. I don't even drink coffee but I still had to get that mug!

[MrPeetrie]

I love my resort mugs and use them all the time!! They are usefull when at WDW and then when at home!

Great one! We love ours, as well.

I have a story:
Back in 2002, we took my parents for their first trip. They loved it! On the last day, my dad kept telling my mom, "I have a surprise for you." He kept teasing her and wouldn't say what it was. Finally he said, "You want to know what it is?"

He took out a stack of Walt Disney World napkins he had hidden in her purse. We all laughed.

"That's your big surprise?" my mom said.

"You don't think it's much now. But in the summer when you have a cook-out, I'm going to set the table with these napkins and you're going to think of this trip all over again."

He was SOOOO right. We were all sad when they were gone. It was a great inexpensive (free) souvenir.