When I was a kid, if you were fortunate enough to spend the night with your parents at a motel, you made sure to clean the room out of little bars of soap, mini shampoo bottles, or matchbooks before you left.

That was a big score when I was in grade school, but over the years we all came to realize how worthless that stuff was. It’s been more than a decade since I bothered to even swipe a fancy Crabtree & Evelyn Lemon Verbena shampoo from a Four Seasons.

At the same time, hotels have now gotten generous putting out coffee machines. I’m not a coffee drinker, but my wife and son drink coffee and they both have Keurig machines. Of course I grab a few of those little K-cups when I’m traveling! While a little bar of soap isn’t worth more than a dime, those little coffee pods retail for about 75-cents a piece at Target.

I don’t feel too bad swiping a couple of the cups each night I stay. I figure the coffee companies are happy to get people sampling their new flavors – like the granola bars given out in airline clubs. I used to work for one of the big MegaCorp granola bar companies.

How likely are you to grab an extra coffee cup (or something else?) as a souvenir when you are traveling?

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