Tired of Being Scrooge

[LaVern]

I am tired of being cranky. I watched one of my favorite Christmas movies again last night. Chevy Chase. Oh- the guy tried so hard. Lets share crazy fun times and crazy relatives stories. Oh- man we have had some funny things happen.

 

[TheCaseFamily00]

A bunch of my bro and sis in laws got into a whipped creme fight one year,the kind in a can. It was crazy!!!!! You never know what is gonna happen,they're lots of fun. Sadly a couple won't be here till January,won't be the same without thim

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[little lady]

Every year we get some one a gag gift...usually if someone does something stupid during the year...like one year I wrecked my truck and I got the manual for parts for that make/model and a can of spray paint.

 

[LaVern]

Oh, a Whipped cream fight. It seems so appropriate. I remember when red jello first came into Saint Olafs. It was scandalous. but we covered it up with whipped cream so then it was okay. Also remember when Aunt Sophie discovered Cheese Whiz. Everything had Cheese Whiz on it. That Aunt Sophie was always the daring one.

 

[REO]

My mom, her husband, my sister & I, my sister's husband all used to go to my grandparents for Christmas. I was youngest so I was gift passer-outer and stayed behind the couch where the tree was, rummaging for gifts as they hollered for more!

Seems my mom was a silly gal (now you know where *I* get it!) And you'd see my grandpa look perplexed as he's tear off the paper to find himself confronted with a bra box, or a box of feminine products. My mom would put the men's gifts in the "worst" boxes she could find! They were afraid to open those boxes!

OH THE LOOK ON THEIR FACES!

That was priceless!

 

[Reble]

This takes me back too many years ago, when my hubby and dad put a cardboard doll house together and it needed to go into the girls room, well, talk about laughing out loud. It would not fit through the door and nobody thought about that. So dad and my husband had to try to take it down some to put it in the room. well mom and I stood laughing at them at the girls door and so shocked they did not wake up and they wondered how Santa got it in their room..

Another time, had my parents over christmas eve, and bought some Kentucy Fried Chicken for a late snack.

Well hubby put it in the oven for later.

When it came time to heat the oven, I turned it on, and mom yelled somethings burning, oh know did not tell me the chicken was in the oven and in the cardboard bucket, hubby came to the rescue and opened the front door and grapped the burning bucket, and out it went into the snow with flames following.. anyone for burnt chicken and wings...

 

[chandab]

Seems my mom was a silly gal (now you know where *I* get it!) And you'd see my grandpa look perplexed as he's tear off the paper to find himself confronted with a bra box, or a box of feminine products. My mom would put the men's gifts in the "worst" boxes she could find! They were afraid to open those boxes!

OH THE LOOK ON THEIR FACES!

That was priceless!

Not necessarily the worst boxes, but not plain boxes...

A few years ago, we were at a friends house at Christmas, Mom had gifts for the kids; when Ryan opened his gift, it was a cereal box, he said "Oh, cereal" and tossed the box over his shoulder without opening the box. so, we had to tell him to open the box; he was 5 or 6 at the time.

My husband has a large family and one year, one of the cousins unwrapped a microwave popcorn box, he threw it in the freezer to save teh popcorn for later, wasn't he surprised when he went after popcorn and discovered his new socks had been in the freezer for a couple months.

 

[REO]

Socks in the freezer!

I have not used fem product boxes (EW) but I DO use cereal. britta filters, mac n cheese or any type of boxes that I can find!

 

[RockRiverTiff]

REO I wish I'd thought of that before wrapping this year's gifts! What a hoot!

My first year of AmeriCorps, we had a Lowdown Dirty Santa gift swap (because we were all broke). I got one very nice new gift and wrapped it up all Martha Stewart style, and then for my second gift I made a bologna, pickle and mustard sandwich, put it in a brown bag, and left it out for a couple days. Naturally no one wanted anything to do with that brown bag (you could smell it), but my friend Davia ended up getting the last pick. When she opened up the bag, she pulled out the sandwich, threw it on the ground, and called me a word we would NOT have been allowed to say in front of the kids. I had no idea she was such a brat! The rest of the party, she stomped around badmouthing me until another coworker with a little more faith in me suggested there might be something in the sandwich. I'd folded the gift limit into a teeny tiny square, wrapped it in cellophane and tucked it into the sandwich. The funny thing is (besides her tantrum of course) that afterward Davia decided to do the same thing for her own family gift exchange.

 

[ruffian]

This takes me back too many years ago, when my hubby and dad put a cardboard doll house together and it needed to go into the girls room, well, talk about laughing out loud. It would not fit through the door and nobody thought about that. So dad and my husband had to try to take it down some to put it in the room. well mom and I stood laughing at them at the girls door and so shocked they did not wake up and they wondered how Santa got it in their room..

My mom and dad got me the "Corner Store" one year. A whole bunch of "insert tab A into Slot 397 and bend 17 degrees to lay next to hole Z". Luckily they got it a few days before Christmas and Dad took it to work to set up. Dad was a city policeman and his whole shift starting working on it. THREE DAYS and NINE Shifts later, it was complete. Of course the city had NO police protection during that time, but they got my Corner Store done! I loved it, and played with it until it fell completely apart after numerous tape fixes!

My best gift was my "Wonder Mare" The bouncy horse when I was 6. Still can see it in my mind, and she's up in the attic for my grandchildren.

 

[Katiean]

One year my sister got me something like earrings. Well, she put it in a great big box. I opened it and inside was a smaller box all wrapped in pretty paper. I opened it. And so on and so on. She wrapped about 6 boxes and yea, feminine products was one of the boxes. We were all rolling on the floor by the time I got to the earring box.

 

[Wee Mite Miniatures]

My sister in law was in her 60's and talker. We used to open the gifts one at a time so every one could see what you got. She was talking as she opened her gift not paying attention to what she was doing. She reached into the box, into the fancy tissue paper and pulled out and held the gift up in front of her for all to see as she stopped talking and glanced at the gift. She turned about 10 shades of red when she realized she was holding up a sexy see though teddy. Not a very nice taste full one but one that was extremely raunchy.

To this day I do not think she knows we gave it to her. Over the next few years it did show up at a few birthday parties and bridal showers.