Gift from Brazil?

16 years ago

OK, a co-worker is going to Brazil and he owes me BIG TIME!!!

What should I ask him to bring back?? (Flying, so something that will go through customs without problems).

Deanna

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lindac
16 years ago
Gem stones!!!
dgkritch
Original Author
16 years ago
Good idea! Customs might be a small problem........

:-)

Deanna
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dafygardennut
16 years ago
Soccer player? Cabana boy?
Terri_PacNW
16 years ago
coffee and chocolate
dgkritch
Original Author
16 years ago
Keep 'em comin'!!
I'm likin' coffee....alot! Chocolate is good, but I'm not a (gasp!) big chocolate person.

I do believe DH would have a problem with either the soccer player OR cabana boy. And we don't have a pool or soccer field anyway. :-)

Deanna
noinwi
16 years ago
Hot peppers!
lindac
16 years ago
Gem stones come through customs easier than oranges!
Seriously, colored stones, topaz, tourmaline, emeralds are all very inexpensive in Brazil. I think he might be amazed what $20 will buy on the beach!...And the shops as you get off the plane..
User
16 years ago
Oh, coffee - their Brazilian Bourbon Santos, it's considered their finest coffee. A coworker brought some back for me a few years ago, and now it's all I drink.
dedtired
16 years ago
When I was there I bought bags of coffee at a regular old grocery store. It was inexpensive and fabulous.

Brazil is known for their leather goods. I'd ask for a new pocketbook. Too bad someone else can't buy shoes for you. I got some leather sandals that have lasted for years.

The other thing I got there and love is a sarong-type wrap. I bought it from someone on the beach in Rio (I love to say that!). I think it cost $7 US. The women there wear it wrapped around their waist to go to the beach, unwrap it and use it as a beach "towel" to lie on, then re-wrap it when it's time to go. You don't see people going to the beach carrying chairs, umbrellas, coolers, buckets, shovels, boogie boards like we do here.
annie1992
16 years ago
I had a brazilian foreign exchange student once, she brought coffee and it was very good.

How about a wooden cutting board or bowl made from Brazilian cherry? It's a lovely wood...

Annie
suzyqtexas
16 years ago
Coffee....just your average ground coffee from a grocery store is fabulous Pialo. Also a sangria spoon....a long ice tea looking wooden spoon with a larger flatish end than a ice tea spoon.
shaun
16 years ago
Wax!
dgkritch
Original Author
16 years ago
I think I'll need to stick with something "safe" for a nerdy type engineer to pick out for me that doesn't really know me all that well on a personal level (wish he was a foodie).

Coffee is good.
Wood items.
Maybe chocolate.

I'm pretty darned picky about my pocketbook/handbag options so that won't work (wish I could go pick my own!!).

It's really more of a joke than anything. He always wants stuff done at the last minute. I finished some things for him ahead of schedule and he sent a "WOW, that was fast" email. I wanted to respond with "Yeah, now you can bring me back ______".

Deanna

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