Well, well... dad got home from his work trip to Breme, where he attended a conference, with what can only be described as "loot". Promotional gadgetry ahoy. Let's see...
- Four "clingy koalas" (only words I can find to describe them... absurdly cute koala thingies, which work a bit like clothespins). They had a "jacket" on, advertising "Brisbane Marketing". I cut away the jackets, and now the thingies are advertising free... I got two, one brown and one grey, and mom and my brother got one each (both grey). ^^v
- Two bottle openers, keyshaped and with the advertisement of some antibiotic for poultry on them. Said advertisement has the name/logo of the antibiotic and the sentence, "The Key to Success". I would attempt to scratch it off if it wasn't so damn amusing. XD I'm keeping one, my brother's keeping the other.
- A normal bottle opener (with an advertisement on it, of course), which mom kept.
- Two erasers with the advertisement of another antibiotic for poultry... they have the name of the antibiotic on them, and a chick (as in the yellow fluffy newborn bird that's the offspring of chickens) with a red baseball cap, looking threatening. XD The things advertisers come up with. Too damn cute XD
- Two batches of post-its, one yellow with discreet advertising, which I swiped, and one white with the advertising taking up 50% of the available surface, which mom was left with. I normally wouldn't bother with regular-shaped, advertisement-endowed post-its, but I now have the habit of sticking post-its to the frame of my monitor when I need to be sure that I'll remember something. So yellow, smallish post-its actually come in handy, and hey, if I'm not paying for them, it's better. O:D I have heart-shaped post-its, but they make my monitor look too cluttery. (*looks at the things stuck to it, and the stuff sitting on top of it, and sweatdrops* Er, not that it isn't fairly cluttery already... ^^;)
- Two mousepads, with advertisement of course. They aren't as fugly as the ones dad used to bring home, and they're quite large and high-quality, so we're keeping them for when my brother's mousepad gives up the ghost. (I don't need a mousepad because I have an optical mouse both on this computer and on my laptop. :D)

In addition, dad got me an umbrella with kittens (so now I have two umbrellas, one with angels and another with kittens, w00t). Mom got a small ceramic statue of the Musicians of Breme (the characters from the fairytale, if you've ever read it), and my brother got a chicken-plushie keychain (we'll have to ask dad if it was a freebie or he bought it... it doesn't look like a freebie, it doesn't have any advertisements on it).