On NPR a year or so ago, they did a story about a company that suggested people buy personal carbon offsets as gifts for loved ones coming in from out of town to offset whatever pollution they may have created from the trip they made. I can imagine that would be a little disappointing.
A New car.:dubious:
Really? People give a freaken expensive luxury car as a Christmas present?
A certificate for having your car detailed? (mine is so old, dirt, rust, and road salt are the only things holding it together). The local porn shop always features ads with a Santa recommending crack pipes, lube, and “toys”. And the gym memberships, yeah…although they don’t really get crankin’ till January (“A New YOU for a New Year! Only $19.95 a month until one of us dies!”).
I actually would love a certificate for electrolysis, I’m weary of battling my teeny mustache. (I’m not about to get a new car, expensive jewelry, or tickets to a show (because of the horrendous weather we get - the last time we went downtown to a show, paying $60 for each ticket, there was an ice storm. We couldn’t NOT go, but it wasn’t fun).
I have enough mugs, sweaters, socks, slippers, bags of candy, funny books, and gift cards, thank you. I would take electrolysis for a gift that actually is useful.
I’d love to get my bikini line done, but I have this irrational fear that one day the ungroomed look will become fashionable and I’ll look dated like my aunts with the eyebrows all plucked out and drawn back in.
I just saw somewhere on the net a print ad (looked vintage) for ‘caskets and urns made in the Lehigh Valley’ (Pennsylvania?) - showed Santa and reindeer flying through the sky. Not on a sleigh, Santa was a coffin!
(I wouldn’t want to get a burial plot for Christmas, though I’m the organized type who would like to pre-purchase one. But not at Christmas. But I’d get more use out of a nice coffin and plot than a ginormous TV!)