What do you buy at Disney gift shops?

[gr8ful]

Towels. We like the bath towels (beach towels I guess) from the parks, resorts, and pretty much every vacation destination we go to. Our kids always know what to get us. Daughter visits Gold Coast Australia - towel, other daughter goes with friends to typhoon lagoon- towel. We use them all in our regular rotation of bath towels. Love seeing the memories of where we’ve all been.

Love it! Gives me an idea - let the Grands pick out a new beach towel every Disney trip with us, which is every other year.

 

[gr8ful]

DW buys tee shirts & sweatshirts. Previously, I bought baseball caps but now I have enough.

Disney is a great place to pick up a baseball cap when I forget to pack one. Sweatshirts too!

 

[Sandisw]

Pins and/or a magnet every trip. I try to get one that reminds me of that specific one.

Beyond that, it just depends!!

 

[kboo]

We live in an apartment in NYC so space is always at a premium. So mostly I've gotten pins (and some magnets). I need to set up a corkboard/shadowbox to display them all, though.

Only things I really look at are the nicer clothing items. Tommy Bahama, Peter Millar, etc. More expensive but higher quality, and designs tend to have more subtle Disney touches rather than cartoony in-your-face stuff.

Disney used to have nicer, A-line Dress Shop dresses, and I have a few of them. But no more, it seems?

I just can’t say no to a Disney Dooney purse…

Lately, I have looked at Dooney and also Loungefly. I have a clear Loungefly I keep in my owners' locker for park days. It makes the bag check much easier if I get pulled. I use another Loungefly at home as a regular purse and those get worn out pretty quickly. But I like to look for the "perfect" purse so I don't overdo it. We go at least once a year (more like 2-3, if I'm honest to myself) and I cannot store so many purses.

Ok, I had to look up Tervis cup to find out what it was, but like Christmas ornaments you can never have too many!

Great plan for the kids spending. We take the Grands every other year and something like that may make a lot of sense for them in the future. They are ages 2,4, 6, and 8 so will probably start with a much smaller amount. At what age did you start doing that?

Christmas ornaments are a newer thing, especially since we started going to the MVMCP. I tend to be drawn to the fragile ones, though, which are sort of hard to pack and bring home. (Hubby and the kids did get some for me for Christmas)

When my kids were really little, we have them a little coin purse with pennies in it, and I would set the "price" they'd have to pay to chip in. It helped for them to handle and see the coins (and helped with counting) because a gift card was too abstract. And - I could moderate their purchases without actually saying "no" - "ohhh, that $100 princess dress? Yes, that's going to cost you ... 15 coins. Oh no! you only have 10? So sorry. Maybe next time ... "

This morphed to, "we will buy you 1 princess dress per trip so choose wisely" to giving them $100 on a gift card, so they could afford ONE dress plus some other small things, or they could get multiple other things...

It's funny the things that catch their eye.

 

[BaybeeYoda]

We plan on getting the Pandora charms for every resort we stay at… boardwalk, poly, bcv, blt…

 

[asunutgirl]

Oldest daughter (28) collects pins. Youngest (24) collects anything Hamm because he's her favorite character.

I like Disney Pandora charms, Tervis tumblers and Christmas ornaments. Occassionally a shirt or sweatshirt if they catch my eye. Just back from DLR and I bought a "Chip" (from Beauty and the Beast) coffee mug. I have a Mrs Potts cookie jar that is for display only and I bought the cup to coordinate with it. Husband is a t-shirt guy so that is his purchase of choice.

 

[gr8ful]

When my kids were really little, we have them a little coin purse with pennies in it, and I would set the "price" they'd have to pay to chip in. It helped for them to handle and see the coins (and helped with counting) because a gift card was too abstract. And - I could moderate their purchases without actually saying "no" - "ohhh, that $100 princess dress? Yes, that's going to cost you ... 15 coins. Oh no! you only have 10? So sorry. Maybe next time ... "

Brilliant!

 

[crazycatlady]

I love resort specific tee shirts/sweat shirts because they tend to be less "in-your-face" Disney for wearing at home.
Since all of my purses are already Disney loungeflys, I don't want to look too nuts!

We also buy lighter resort-specific Christmas ornaments. We get a real tree each year so they can't handle the weight of the big, heavy ornaments that Disney usually has.

I have a lot of Riviera, Grand Cal and AKL specific items because their gift shops carry a lot of stuff. It irritates me that the Grand Flo never has resort specific tees.

 

[Newsies]

Most of the Deluxe resorts w/ DVC properties have an exclusive Pandora charm now -- I like to collect one every time I stay at a new resort

 

[hardcorestitch]

I love resort specific tee shirts/sweat shirts because they tend to be less "in-your-face" Disney for wearing at home.
Since all of my purses are already Disney loungeflys, I don't want to look too nuts!

We also buy lighter resort-specific Christmas ornaments. We get a real tree each year so they can't handle the weight of the big, heavy ornaments that Disney usually has.

I have a lot of Riviera, Grand Cal and AKL specific items because their gift shops carry a lot of stuff. It irritates me that the Grand Flo never has resort specific tees.

I’m actually eyeing a Loungefly so I don’t have to carry my current bulky backpack… perhaps I’ll snag one at Disneyland…