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					Originally Posted by  Army Wife'79
					 
				 
				Speaking of weddings....what do you think about wedding favors? I think they are mostly a waste of money b/c I usually take them home and after they sit on my counter a couple days I throw them away.   
 
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Back in my day wedding favors were never more than a book of matches that said the B&G's names and the date. 
			
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 We came from the same "day."  I had never been to a wedding with favors until the last year or two (except for, as you note, the old matchbooks or napkins.)  They seem completely pointless to me . . .  I associate favors with a kid's birthday party.  
I really don't want to take anything home from a wedding.  Even the very nice chocolates we brought home from a wedding last summer went to waste -- we ate one each (of the 4 or 5 we each had in a box) and the rest went into the refigerator, where they remained until we found them 6 months later and threw them away.  Of course, they were pretty much lost on me -- I'm not a big chocolate fan at all -- but even my wife and kids forgot about them.
My advice as a frequent wedding guest:  Forget about favors.