Ok, who gives "joke gifts" for christmas? Do you do the big box, little gift gag? Or wrap layer after layer of gift wrap on a present just for a laugh? I'm just curious to hear some funny gift stories. I'll share a couple to start the thread... Gave a good friend of mine the Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition DVD last year. I put it in a small box, wrapped it with an entire roll of packing tape (that really sticky impossible to open stuff) and then wrapped that in the usual decorative paper gift wrap. Took him 20 minutes to open it. My nephew. Oh boy, every year I have to think of something new. 2 years ago I gave him a Playstation. Put it in a Flowmaster Muffler box (I worked in a muffler shop). He tears the paper off, looks at the box, gives this look of utter dismay and tosses the unopened box off to the side. When he opens the next box full of Playstation games, he finally figured it out. So last year I took another Flowmaster Muffler box with the muffler still in it and gift wrapped it. (his real gift was elsewhere) He tears the paper and starts to laugh. "You're not getting me with that again!" He looks at the muffler inside. The look on his face was too much. So this year, I got him a Harry Potter Playstation game. After much careful thought, I came up with the joke to end all jokes. (until next year) I'm going to buy some book like whatever you'd get a little girl--suggestions would be helpful, he's a typical 11-year old boy--cut a cavity in the middle to place the game in and gift wrap it with a cute pink bow. That gift is going in a larger box, also gift-wrapped. Then that one goes into an even larger box, also gift-wrapped......ad infinitum. Carefully packing everything to foil the "shake-test". Ultimately all the boxes-in-boxes-in-boxes end up in a box I have at work that a heater came in. About 4'x3'x3'. Last year, his mom made it clear that anything anyone bought her "for the kitchen" would end up in the dumpster. (ok I can go along with that) Now their coffee maker had recently died and I had just bought a new one for myself so I saved the box. Her CD player was carefully packed in the Mr Coffee box and gift-wrapped. Oh boy was she pissed when she unwrapped a coffee maker box! --- OK, jump in. I need some ideas now!
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When I was married, my ex-hubby traveled a lot. For Christmas, he wanted one of those little fold-up luggage carts to tote around his overnite bag and computer bag. He also wanted one of those little slidy carts that you lay on to change the oil. So his mom and I schemed a bit that winter. We got him a slidy-oil-changing-cart and a rope. Told him he could change his oil and when he wanted to go out of town he could tie the rope to the cart and use it as luggage carrier.
One year, my teenage BIL just wanted cash. $100 was my budget for him and I got him $100 in pennies. Put it into a couple of HUGE boxes and lugged them to him on Christmas morning. He didn't find that very funny. Don't know why. $100 is a $100 bucks.
Little Women Anne of Green Gables anything from the Babysitter's Club series Nancy Drew mysteries (you can sometimes find hardcover versions in a 2nd hand bookstore which will impress him to no end )
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Bendrr, when I was a little girl, my grandmother would always pick someone to do this too. She woul have a small present under the tree and when it was opened there would be a note inside which had a clue to where the next box would be. That box would also have a note with a clue. She used about five different clues until you finally got to the main gift. It was fun.
One of my close friends is a JW, but doesn't tell the people she works with, that she is one. She has been a dub for 30 years. She gives Christmas presents to the people she works for, and gets lots of them too. She came by today, and showed me a Christmas tablecloth and a Christmas sweater. Now what can she do with those things? It is so ironic.
Last year she got a VERY expensive nativity set, from people who are Microsoft executives. She gave it to me to give to my daughter in law, who loved it. To me it is just SO funny. She doesn't think so, but I laughed hard today.
ah i remember as a child, about 7, female, my sister and i woke and found string tied around our beds, santa left it there, as we found out when we read the notes with our parents then we had to follow the string, or no payola had bout 500 feet of string throughout the house and finally found our bikes downstairs, that was about 40 yrs ago, and i cant forget it
