the good stuff

The swag gallery

Everything worth ordering for a trip, in one place. Judged on one question: would a guy still have this in five years? We own 9 of the 15 below and say so on each one.

we use thisPersonalized beverage tubA steel tub with the crew name on it, which does the one job a cooler cannot: it sits out in the open where everyone can see it.
we use thisPersonalized flasksOne per guy with his own name on it, which is why these get kept instead of left in a hotel room.
we use this.308 shell casing shot glassesA shot glass built around a .308 casing, so the joke is the object itself rather than something printed on it that wears off.
Custom trucker hatOutlasts a shirt by years and gets worn at home, which is the real test of any of this.
we use thisTwo-sided custom challenge coinsCoins survive where shirts do not, because they live in a drawer rather than a closet and nobody throws one away.
Custom deck of playing cardsPut faces on the court cards and it stops being a deck and starts being a running joke.
Custom branded poker chipsPriced these out for the trip tournament and never pulled the trigger, so this is research rather than a recommendation.
we use thisCustom embroidered trip patchesThe longest-running item on this list, ordered most years since at least 2013.
Custom UPF 50+ long sleeve sun shirtThe one piece of custom swag that is genuinely functional, which is why it outlives the trip.
we use thisCustom zip hoodiesExpensive next to a printed tee and worth it, because a hoodie gets worn for years while a shirt gets worn once.
we use thisHand-forged engraved bottle openersEngraved with the trip number and the year it started, and forged steel means there is nothing on it to wear out.
Insulated can koozieThe cheapest thing here you can order a single one of, and it survives because it lives in a drawer rather than a closet.
we use thisPersonalized cocktail glassesOne glass per guy with his name on it, in a shape that suits a mixed drink rather than whiskey, which is the only reason to own both.
we use thisPersonalized whiskey glassesOne glass per guy with his own name on it, which is the only reason anybody still knows whose drink is whose by the second night.
Off-the-shelf novelty teeFor Vegas do not customize anything, because the joke already exists off the shelf and ships faster.