Holiday question: Does your family have a joke gift that they give from one family to another each year?

My family has several. The first one was a Valentine that was sent back and forth between my grandmother and my uncle. Each year they would cross off the signature and send the same card.

Other that have made the rotation are smoked oysters in a tin, Play-dough with glitter and sticks, and the latest is stuffed squid in their own ink. Charming, eh? Asked by Lady_Wolf_is_Lost 51 months ago Similar questions: Holiday question family joke gift give year Society > Organizations.

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A gift bag with overly-sweet kittens on it. My friend (who when this started, some 15 years ago was my boss) and I started passing this awful gift bag back and forth from year to year. (Huge-eyed, pathetically sweet kittens that make you feel vaguely guilty just for looking at them.) It had a tag attached that was like a little card, and we started listing who got it and the year (it bounced around within our families).

Every couple of years one of us has to do "bag maintenance" because its been torn and split and the glue has let go. Last year I carefully took it apart and reinforced the whole inner lining with duct tape, and now it'll be good for another 15 years, I'm sure! When my husband would be deployed, we would always send a "Getter Can--Do Not Eat!

" back and forth, wrapped up festively. (A Getter Can, near as I can tell, is like the silica gel that they put into purses and stuff before they ship them to keep them dry, and Getter Can must be the brand name or something, but it came in a little grey can with the name and the "do not eat" on it, and for some reason it just tickled us.) .

We sure do...LOL One year, my son Bill and his wife, Pat gave Gram a a beautiful crystal candy dish. Gram was kind of a 'drama queen' and really hammed up the 'ooohs and ahhha' over the gift. The next Christmas, we all gathered at our house for dinner and gifts.

Everyone was opening their presents...when a total silence fell upon the room. Bill and Pat had received the candy dish back from Gram. Gram was in her 80's...and never really caught on as to what had happened.

The next year, Bill and Pat gave the dish to my daughter, Lynn. We were hysterical in laughter at that point. Sure enough, the next Christmas...Lynn wrapped it beautifully and gave it to my daughter, Sue... Finally, it was my turn.

The darndest thing is, we never remembered that candy dish until we opened the gift. Well, I got the dish that Christmas...and it turned out to the last Christmas that we were all together. Gram passed on the following May...and I still have the crystal candy dish with so many wonderful memories attached to it.

Sources: My crazy life HELENofTROY's Recommendations Crystal Candy Box - Flair - 7.5 inches .

We do not do that But when we were still drawing names, and everybody had everything they needed, we'd come up with very unusual books. One year, one of my brothers gave another brother (I have four brothers) a book he'd found at the Goodwill about nematodes, complete with color illustrations. One year I gave a brother a hand made coffee mug with a guy grinning in relief - it looked just like my brother when he was making that same face.

Also hilarious gift. I believe one brother received a copy of The Federalist Papers for Christmas. He actually read it and liked it.

Pretty dry reading. We stopped drawing names and exchanging gifts except for the tiny grandchildren. That's all the fun we need.

Well, we eat, too.

Oh, yeah... Several! My grandmother ALWAYS wrapped (2 separate packages) a brick and an onion for my uncle. She was exceptional at disguising them, but every year, he got them.My mother-in-law always got a box of kleenex, heavily disguised.

1 yes, someone always gives someone a fart rubber thing, so when they sit on it, it sounds like a fart. We are just a farting family, and I don't care, cause I can't smell anything. I am the dog's best friend, and will never mind if you fart.

God Bless! .

Yes, someone always gives someone a fart rubber thing, so when they sit on it, it sounds like a fart. We are just a farting family, and I don't care, cause I can't smell anything. I am the dog's best friend, and will never mind if you fart.

God Bless!

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.