awful gift tradition

[nemesisenforcer]

Me and a buddy have a Christmas and birthday gift giving tradition: we get each other the worst/most hilarious/most embarrassing gift possible.

Greatest hits: he got me an autographed picture of himself for me one year. The next year, I charitably donated $20 to the Gay Trucker's Association (yes there is a charity for the Gay Trucker's Association) in his name and framed the thank you message for him.

This year however, I may have set a new bar. First though a little background.

TO make a long story short, one of our ongoing jokes is about his mother being a hard boiled, foul mouthed, ***** of an OTR coast to coast truck driver whose CB handle is Chunky Beats.

This year, I bought him a star from the international star registry and named it Chunky Beats.

I can't wait to see his face when he reads the commemorative certificate.

[dragonrider]

Very funny it should go over well. Off the subject of you and your friend, I find all gift giving in the name of baby jesus to be downright offensive and I refuse to participate in such foolishness. If I wish to give a gift to someone I will do so at anytime of the year. Their own birthday for instance. Not to mention the worst reason, that of being coerced to do so five minutes by adds on radio and television. newspapers, you smart phone, Ipad, A gift should mean something, it should say something about how the giftor feels toward the giftee. Christmas gifts mean nothing, they are felt of as obligations, that which we must do or we won't get a gift in return. Oh what a horror. It's really sad what we are teaching our children.

[Alvarez Kelly]

Very funny it should go over well. Off the subject of you and your friend, I find all gift giving in the name of baby jesus to be downright offensive and I refuse to participate in such foolishness. If I wish to give a gift to someone I will do so at anytime of the year. Their own birthday for instance. Not to mention the worst reason, that of being coerced to do so five minutes by adds on radio and television. newspapers, you smart phone, Ipad, A gift should mean something, it should say something about how the giftor feels toward the giftee. Christmas gifts mean nothing, they are felt of as obligations, that which we must do or we won't get a gift in return. Oh what a horror. It's really sad what we are teaching our children.

Wow. I'm so sorry for you. I love giving gifts at Christmas. I don't care what or even if I get a gift in return. Giving gifts to the grand kids is the best. Giving gifts I know the kids and grand kids will love makes ME feel good. I guess that is very selfish of me... giving for my own pleasure.

[NavyVet1959]

A gift should mean something, it should say something about how the giftor feels toward the giftee.

Agreed... That's why I don't give anyone anything... Otherwise, people might start to think that I'm *not* a sociopath... :-P

[Ballistics in Scotland]

TO make a long story short, one of our ongoing jokes is about his mother being a hard boiled, foul mouthed, ***** of an OTR coast to coast truck driver whose CB handle is Chunky Beats.


With a close relative of hers you should always pretend you didn't know.

I have never felt inclined to have the name of baby Jesus placed on a gift certificate. Anything I give comes in my own name, and I avoid coercion by never giving anything I've seen advertised. (In which connection I wonder if our sun has just been named after and presented to a giant amoeba named ᾞὦᶃᵺᶂ?) But I am quite content to do it at whatever time of the year I think the recipient is likely to consider particularly festive.

[starmac]

All I can say is wow, bet your kids loved christmas time. I just got back from an early christmas dinner and gift exchange, because my sil has to work through christmas and couldn't make it. Also went to the grandaughters christmas band concert tonight.
This was the very first time even though it isn't christmas that all my kids and grandkids have been at the same place for christmas, and all had a great time.

I do have a little problem with all the commercialisation of Christmas, but sure don't let it spoil it.

[Love Life]

I got my brother Magic Mike on Blu Ray for Christmas this year. One year he got me a coffee cup in the shape of a...ummm...well...

[DR Owl Creek]

How about some naughty pictures of Hillary Clinton and Janet Napolitano together?

Dave

[dragonrider]

I am sorry for hijacking this thread, not my intention, but as usual misunderstanding abounds. I don't participate because gifting on Christmas has become meaningless because of merchants. It has been for a very long time. Christmas no longer means what it is supposed to mean. The birth of Christ is almost totally forgotten. Walking through a store at this time of year I become disgusted at what I see. People buying as much at as they can and many if not most are buying way more than they can afford. It should not be like this. People are going into deep debt just because it is Christmas and they have to buy, buy, buy. Now that I have offer this explanation please do not respond, this thread needs to go back to origin.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

OK, Nemesisenforcer and his buddy's little game sounds perfectly harmless, because each understands and sympathises with the other's motivation.

[Ed Barrett]

I enjoy giving Christmas presents to Kids especially my grand kids. Christmas is for kids. Adults should exchange cards and get together for drink or a meal for the holidays. Just my 2 cents worth.

[MaryB]

I have bought... let me think... oh yeah I ordered a conversion kit for my wireless router to add external antennas. I spent $12... My idea of giving this time of year is something homemade with meaning. All my nieces, nephews, grand nieces/nephews are getting a laser cut acrylic Christmas tree decoration with their names engraved on it. Simple, something they can remember, made from leftover scrap material from my laser engraving/cutting business... so basically free to make other than a little of my times and laser time. Each year I am adding a second piece, a third etc until it all snaps together into a star for the tree top.


I am sorry for hijacking this thread, not my intention, but as usual misunderstanding abounds. I don't participate because gifting on Christmas has become meaningless because of merchants. It has been for a very long time. Christmas no longer means what it is supposed to mean. The birth of Christ is almost totally forgotten. Walking through a store at this time of year I become disgusted at what I see. People buying as much at as they can and many if not most are buying way more than they can afford. It should not be like this. People are going into deep debt just because it is Christmas and they have to buy, buy, buy. Now that I have offer this explanation please do not respond, this thread needs to go back to origin.

[waksupi]

I've got an old retired AF buddy. He would go to the PX every year, and buy the cheapest **** he could find, and then go to the Dollar Store. He would have a pretty good load in a garbage bag before he was done. He would then give them out to our friends, and they all think it was hilarious. A "gift" doesn't need value, it needs a happy spirit.

[Plate plinker]

I got my brother Magic Mike on Blu Ray for Christmas this year. One year he got me a coffee cup in the shape of a...ummm...well...

Ummm a cat?

[snowwolfe]

I am sorry for hijacking this thread, not my intention, but as usual misunderstanding abounds. I don't participate because gifting on Christmas has become meaningless because of merchants. It has been for a very long time. Christmas no longer means what it is supposed to mean. The birth of Christ is almost totally forgotten. Walking through a store at this time of year I become disgusted at what I see. People buying as much at as they can and many if not most are buying way more than they can afford. It should not be like this. People are going into deep debt just because it is Christmas and they have to buy, buy, buy. Now that I have offer this explanation please do not respond, this thread needs to go back to origin.

Christmas means exactly what you want it to mean.

[dragon813gt]

Christmas means exactly what you want it to mean.

Exactly. I don't buy gifts for everyone every year. But when I find something that I think they will enjoy I buy it. My parents want for nothing. My father is a huge Mel Brooks fan so this year I bought him "The Incredible Mel Brooks Collection" because I know he will enjoy it a lot. Bought my best friend a shotgun last year. I don't have any worse gift traditions so I can't contribute on that level. I do have some liberal friends. I know, the horror. So I bought them NRA memberships last year. All but one found it hilarious. I no longer talk to the one so it was a win win for me :)

[mold maker]

When Christ is forgotten in exchange for the joy of giggles, it reeks of commercial greed.

[Beagle333]

To the OP... I like it! Good idea. :D

[backhoe]

Bah Humbug!

[Harter66]

I have a life long friend that I share a doody ration woth every chance we get. This year in light of our very rocky location I have found him a the perfect stone . It will be marked Mikes Mexican Loving stone.

The principal of Christ Mas is selfless giving of one's self . For some I guess that means running up the cards ,for others it just means some act or acts of kindness. I guess I'm just 1 of those people that still believes in the spirits of Christ Mas . I buy several extra boxes of peeps and boil a dozen to many eggs every spring I guess that doubles down on my dumb assory.

How I love the positivity of all the really great people here.

"I got this great gag gift for my buddy it tops all others"
"Dumb axx why waste your time and money in the name of something I don't do/believe in/feel the need to exploit/be exploited by.

Good job .

[TXGunNut]

Gag gift tradition sounds like fun, buying stuff for kids is generally fun too. I shudder at the debt some folks are incurring as I type this, I generally buy gift cards for the adults @ their favorite stores and concentrate my meager gift-buying talents on the youngsters. I don't want a thing at Christmas time except socks and underwear. I've got everything else covered and then some.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Yes, a bit more thought and work than money is a good receipe for a present. I download photographs to be printed on mugs. Here is one of a friend, after I reduced the number of his gin bottles. [ATTACH=CONFIG]124348

[wv109323]

You skipped over the Duck Dynasty Chia doll.

[Mod42]

One year I gave a friend an 1873 Springfield Trapdoor, along with an advertisement that told how many parts were in an 1873! Just to make the gift memorable, I took every thing apart so that he could count the pieces and see if the add was correct!

He got even the next year by giving me a large box of canned goods, with all of the labels removed. He claimed there was only one can of cat food in the box......but I never found it!!

My buddy did get the Springfield back together and did some shooting with it, I'll have to ask if he still has it!

[fatnhappy]

One of the Customer Service Reps at work wanted to quit but wouldn't collect unemployment. So he decided to get fired instead. He got a credit card from accounting to buy materials for a job, then proceeded to buy $4,000 worth of sex toys which were discretely packaged and shipped to different women at work.


there were a few new rules around the office about purchasing after that.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

One year I gave a friend an 1873 Springfield Trapdoor, along with an advertisement that told how many parts were in an 1873! Just to make the gift memorable, I took every thing apart so that he could count the pieces and see if the add was correct!

He got even the next year by giving me a large box of canned goods, with all of the labels removed. He claimed there was only one can of cat food in the box......but I never found it!!

My buddy did get the Springfield back together and did some shooting with it, I'll have to ask if he still has it!

A trifling inconvenience to accept, in order to be given a trapdoor Springfield. There is nothing wrong with finding yourself purring when stroked. Think of it as a preference.