I have my brother’s gift buried in a russian nesting doll of boxes, wrapping paper, memes and scotch tape lol
Have a huge extended family. Reached out to as many as I could to offer to pay for the publication of 1 extra “family xmas” card of their family’s Xmas cards they were guna send out anyway. The 1 extra card I paid for each had me as a +1 in their family Xmas portrait to send to my mom as a prank. I’m a single 37y/o dude who has never bought a xmas tree much less sent out Xmas cards. Started the adventure in the fall. Traveled to 3 states visiting cousins abroad.
The first card that arrived to my parents made it all worth it. It was one with my closest of age cousin and his new minime addition to the family. So my mom thought it was such a well thought out and loving joke that I visited them and did their xmas card portrait with them. Then the next one came and the next and the next and the next and the next…
I’m not say I batted a thousand but I got a very respectable industry share of the 20 something 1st cousins and 49 total 1st cousins and once removed 1st cousins (kids of my 1st cousins). It made my family’s holiday season. My mom was in tears laughing telling our Texas relatives what I did. Between that and the retropie I made for my dad, I’m not guna lie, I fucking killed it this year.
I just read your retropie post. Sounds like a really great Christmas this year!
A good holiday will never come from the gifts you recieve. It only comes from the effort you put into the gifts you give. Your effort you put in will always trump the money you put in from the eyes of whoever is the gift unwrapper.
That’s amazing.
My mom is giving a Ouija board in the white elephant, and the person that opens it and loses it first will find it (an identical one) in their backseat when they leave like its haunting them.
I bought my mom a years worth of flowers every month in advance and every note will read “Merry Christmas Mom” every month
Last year I got my buddy who’s into cars for secret Santa. Along with his real gift, I got him a gag blinker fluid bottle and filled it with fireball lol
My son insisted on a gift for Dirty Santa that was in a box encased in 8 more boxes, each wrapped beautifully. Apparently it was the first gift chosen, so everyone had to sit and watch each box be unwrapped.
- Got my dad a bunch of Japanese woodworking tools for Christmas, in the interest of getting him to commit to a retirement hobby
- im a staunch atheist
- im wrapping two of the saws together in the shape of a crucifix and I’m going to talk about having found the good word of our lord jebus cripes
Puzzle box inside a ammo crate sealed with a variety of nuts inside a foot locker locked with a key i mixed in with 80 others. took a few hours :)
That just sounds like a good time
She got chocolates along the way, and at the end after she opened the puzzle box she got a 100 dollar gift card to a nice lil’ french breakfast place so she was happy that the reward was worth the effort.
My parents gave me money for some horseback riding lessons, except the cash was in all 5’s and each bill was individually ziploc’d and the bags were taped together in a long strip and I had to pull it out of this box with it all spooled up inside. Apparently it took my stepfather two days to complete. He wanted to do all 2 dollar bills, but the bank didn’t have enough
We were going to bring a rotisserie chicken in a gift box for a white elephant gift exchange, but worried about it going bad.
A copy of the Communist manifesto
