memes

10705 readers

2057 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civil

No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politics

This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent reposts

Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No bots

No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads

No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

[email protected] : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
[email protected] : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
[email protected] : Linux themed memes
[email protected] : for those who love comic stories.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

288

Spoon. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

i worked for an auctioneer who had thousands of these souvenir spoons. i'd post 10 or 15 for sale on his ebay account every week and they all sold for between $20-$40 each

edit: they don't go for near that much anymore. antiques are dead

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What’s in vogue changes as the age demographic changes. Previously, it was spoons, now it’s 90s video games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a Millennial and have a collection of these. IDK why -- probably because they're small and cheap and therefore pretty convenient as a souvenir -- but back when I was a kid I just got in the habit of grabbing one whenever I traveled.

I also have a jar of pressed pennies because, again, small and cheap.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wikipedia's Emglish server is down, we'll have to settle for English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Whoops! I had edited the URL from en.m.wikipedia.org so it would be a normal desktop-site link, but apparently screwed it up. I've fixed it now, though.