Dung Beetle: bacon freezes well. Just sayin’.
Ugh, no, that little monkey with the cymbals is fucking terrifying. But I do love the monkey pizza cutter though. How can someone complain about such an awesome gift?
My sis sent me an email on Christmas Day with a picture of someone holding up a tee shirt saying “Worlds Okayist Sister”. She says she’s ordered it for me, but probably hasn’t. 
Not this year, but one year, my sister, whose undergrad is in nursing (so really, now, she should know better) sent me, her diabetic sister who lives alone, a tower of chocolate from Harry & David’s for Christmas. :smack:
My coworkers enjoyed the treat.
Chicken. Bawk! Bawk!
I put the maple-flavored stuff up for adoption already, but good to know as far as the rest of it is concerned.
My father-in-law got my wife and I a joint present: a cabbage bowl.
Not a bowl you put cabbage in … a bowl shaped like a cabbage. And they were so proud of it.
Its like too big for one person to have a salad in, but not big enough for multiple people for salad for like a family dinner or something. It’s a 1.75-person salad bowl. Or soup? I dunno, but it’s a cabbage, so I figured it was supposed to be salad.
This has been a theme the last few years - give us some random “one of a kind” craft-show find. As often as not, they’ve been bowls. I don’t get it, my wife doesn’t get it, and we don’t know what to do with them. Goes to show how very little my FIL knows my wife, let alone me.
It’s a bowl… shaped like a cabbage. Oy.
I’m so glad we did away with the gift giving thing a few years ago. Makes life so much easier.
Sister-in-law got me the worst tea-steeping mug thing in existence. This isn’t really her fault, as the gift was very thoughtful, her remembering I’m a tea drinker. It’s the people that made it that suck.
It’s a ~12 oz. porcelain tea cup. It comes with a porcelain insert into which you put the loose tea. Then you drop it into the cup, so it can steep. It also has a lid that doubles as a saucer for the loose tea thingy. Unfortunately, the loose tea insert is so heavy and large compared to the cup it goes into that almost all of the water save for a finger or two displaces out of the cup. Ergo, it is utterly worthless at the one thing is was designed to do. Unless it was actually a gag gift designed to make hot water spill all over the counter as I stared at it half-asleep.
This was made by no one that drinks tea, nor was it at any point sent through the most basic round of product testing. I guess I’ll keep using the mug, though.
Well at least you got a shitty gift at all. Just want to give a shout out to my scrotum of a coworker who didn’t get me anything. Apparently you felt it was OK to add your name to the basket to RECEIVE a Secret Santa gift but couldn’t be asked to GIVE me anything when you drew mine. Whoever you are you can burn in a Christmas-themed hell!
Sounds perfect for cole slaw. Smaller volume than the typical salad, and it has cabbage in it!
More pictures of their kids. Look, I love your kiddies, but I don’t want framed photos every year. I’m the auntie. I am not going to hang all these photos in chronological order and omg, next will come all these school photos. They’re YOUR kids, you cover your walls with their framed photos. Every year, more photos of your kids, framed for hanging.
Sorry, straight out to the dumpster. After of course, much oohing and ahhing on Xmas morn. Dumpster.
I envy you. My office gift thing was a Jello mold kit in the shape of our sports mascot, including Jello in our team colors. We were meant to spend about twenty dollars on these gifts, but I guarantee you that retailed less than five. I mean, the money’s not the point…but I can think of a lot of dollar store crap I’d rather have than a Jello kit.
+1. The dollar stores have some good stuff; I buy all my glassware there.
^Seriously. (I still use “seriously” for emphasis.) I got these pint glasses for $1 each. http://www.amazon.com/Libbey-Coca-Cola-Pint-Glass-Set/dp/B00IEGB5NS - $25 for four? Come on! Found 'em for $31 on e-bay. What kind of lunacy is this?
The amount of people that get me wine when I don’t drink at all is just… sigh. I’m pretty sure they know this, they just don’t believe that an adult could possibly not enjoy drinking and so I MUST enjoy it despite everything I’ve said.
Thankfully though no wine this year. I guess last year was the bumper year with three bottles.
My husband once again (for what, the 6th…7th…8th time? more? How long has this been going on?) was given a starbucks gift card because the only thing this relative has bothered to know about him is he “likes coffee”. I guess, in the sense that he has to have a cup of black coffee to wake up, and otherwise doesn’t give a single shit about coffee. Naturally he has not stepped foot in a starbucks in well on a decade and the gift cards keep getting lost before we can figure out what to do with them.
Oh yeah, and we were both given a cold. Thanks, cousin.
Morbo, I was once given that tea cup, except it’s so large the tea infuser only fits in the top half. I’d have to brew 2x my normal amount of tea to get the water up high enough to get to the leaves. And the holes in the infuser are so big the tea leaves just fall through anyway…? What were these designers thinking? They must have decided the way to fix the design was to make the cup smaller but not change anything else, and lo and behold your dumb thing was made.
Um, you can send that wine to me next time someone gifts you any. I’m here to help.
Macca: Starbucks sells food, too. My manager gave us all Starbuck’s cards, and since I’m not much for coffee and I can get it free @ my office if want some, mine is already earmarked for their tasty tomato-pesto-mozzarella sandwich.
We need to organize some sort of post-Christmas swap or white elephant thingie. I wouldn’t mind a couple of the things y’all have received.
It’s out of stock, so either a lot of people liked it or a lot of people got it and are hating it.
The only gift that I got this year that was meh was a tiny water color set. But it was a stocking stuffer and there’s only so much that can be stuffed into an adult’s stocking. So I’m not really disappointed.
I can keep it to put in someone else’s stocking next year.
I keep any unwanted gift cards for Starbucks, MickeyDee’s, etc in the console of my truck for homeless folks at the exit ramp. They’re usually appreciated.