This is part of one of the gag gifts my mom got for Christmas. Mom has this 'thing' about dusting pictures. She had to do it all the time as a little girl. Naturally, we didnt have a lot of pictures sitting around when I was a kid. One or two sure, but not the hordes of knick knacks and such many people have. So for Christmas my Aunt gives my mom and her sister framed copies of pictures when they were kids. This caption was indentically framed in the box with mom's pictures.This brings me to my current point for this post. What silly traditions does your family have at Christmas time?
Sure, we all get together and things like that, but I'm talking the strange things. For Example: In our family, there are several running gags. There is a pair of pea green socks roaming around that don't show up every year. Just about the time you think they're lost, *poof*, they magically appear in your gifts. There's a funny looking hat floating around too. Another strange thing that you have to watch for if you celebrate a holiday with us: A package that's not what it looks like. This comes in two variants: Size matters not and Open before professing your liking.
Size matters not is obvious. The size and shape of the box don't necessarily correspond to the size of gift inside. The best example of this is the year my grandmother got a great big box of nothing. It was a 19 inch tv box that in the end turned out to be a ring box with a note "Just what you wanted for Christmas, a great big box of nothing". Grandma was not amused.
Open before professing your liking. This one is a bit less devious. It stems from reusing boxes from gifts received to pack gifts to be given. This only becomes humorous when you realize that we actually had a family friend send a 'thank you' note for the coffee maker. Problem was that even though the box (in really good condition) was from a coffee maker, the gift was a stained glass lamp. What made this even more humorous was finding out later that the bride returned the coffee pot to Sears as that was the only place she could find selling that brand. Before she left the store, she got paged ove the intercom to come back to the check out stand. The clerk told her she may want to look at the gift before returning it. It's funny for all of us now, but she was rather embarrassed at first.
So what kind of silly stunts do you and your families do to each other at Christmas?
3 comments:
Hide a gift in the gift. This year, as there was no way to sneek mom's 'real' gift under the tree without the obvious 'size matters not' gag or the bait and switch routine (sneek out of pocket whilst handing out gifts) or the lesser used 'how did that get there' (slight of hand technique not unlike hiding dvd's in a desk) so we used the oh look.. mom got a pretty scarf...
This works much better when you put the 'real' gift NEXT to the fake gift not UNDER it (learned this the hadr way obviously). Oddly enough, I think she lovedthe fake gift just as much. :P
LOL. I too have had similar experience where the decoy gift become much more the center of attention than said, much more expensive and cleverly placed super stupendous gift.
decoy gifts!!! what is this world coming to!!!
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