Yeeeehaaaaaa! I got my package! I got off work early today and found a lovely red box waiting on my front porch. Thank you jazzmine for all the goodies ::cough:: in the package.
I received 4 different sizes but matching geese figurines and another geese figurine showing them walking to a pond. I think there was another goose item in the box, but I’m sad to say that it didn’t make it. There are 7 pieces of wood on my desk. I guess it committed white elephant suicide. Couldn’t take being shipped away with other items.
I also received a ceramic puppy with a lavender bow and lavender flowers around its neck, a pyramind with a globe inside, a Dilbert keychain (not a white elephant because I think it rocks! I’m transferring my keys to it as soon as I finish this post), and a salt shaker (which will come in handy because we lost ours when we moved to our house). But, wait…that’s not all! I also received several plastic turnover/calzone presses. It’s a good think you included a note in the package because when I pulled them out, the first one I saw looked like something you put dentures in.
There was another gift in there that I’m not sure you were aware of. Newspaper! Each item was wrapped in the highest quality of the Idaho Press Tribune and my cat, Athena, played with the paper. She jumped on it, batted the different shapes around, and finally curled up in and is sleeping peacefully. I don’t have the heart to wake her so it’ll just stay there until she wakes up.
Thank you, Pink Kitten! I have always wanted a plasma ball but never could bring myself to spend the money. Everytime I make pink lightning, I’ll think of you!
I got:
[ul][li]1 one-ring inflatable kiddy pool[/li][li]2 little yellow duck candles[/li][li]1 Salt Lake City/2002 Olympics keyring[/li][li]1 SLC Postcard (very pretty)[/li][li]1 Newspaper, independent, from SLC (can’t remember the name)[/li][/ul]
There may be more, but I’m at work and doing this from memory.
That’s soooo cool, Diane. I’d love to visit SLC. I work for A Very Large Hospitality Corporation who is an official supplier of hotel rooms or some such nonsense and am collecting all sorts of 2002 stuff from my workplace. I’ll add this stuff to my collection!
Have you blown it up yet? It’s big enough to soak your feet or half of a butt cheek. But hey, sometimes that is all ya need on those hot days. The yellow ducky candles are for the pool but they really don’t float good so you have to pretend.
If you would like me to watch for something specific for your collection, the store up the street has tons of 2002 Winter Olympic stuff.
I’d like to thank whoever it was in New York (they only put their first initial and last name, no screen name. I have no idea who had me). I recieved a jar of apparently homemade jam or jelly or something. I say apparently because no one I know (and I have some friends who are professional bouncers and semi-professional wrestlers) can open the damn thing. But the cat likes to smell it, so I guess it’s safe. And, I also recieved an “I-don’t-know-what-the-hell-it-is” Zulu-type mask. It’s this thing, kinda looks like a petrified turtle shell. Or a monkey cranium. With a plate holder on it. I sat there for TWO days trying to figure out what the hell it was. I showed it to SuperGirlWhoIsTheReboundFlingSinceSuperGirlfriendAndIEnded, and she said, "Oh, look. It’s a face. She showed me how to hang it, so that the face aspect actually showed. Wow. How cool is this stuff? Thanks again, whoever you are. (Who was it?)
To my person that I’m sending stuff to (the only clue I can give is that it’s going to Canada): I’m still compiling, but only because I’m getting ready to move. Be patient. It’ll get there.
that darn cat and I got back from vacation this Thursday to find a keen box from LunaticB on our kitchen table. Despite being road weary and dehydrated, we tore into the box, holding up various items and reading out the little attached cards…laughing ourselves silly and occasionaly pausing in utter puzzlement. I’m saving the descriptions of what was sent for cat to give y’all.
Last night, we finally scoured the house and put our white elephants in a lump on the kitchen table and made our separate boxes (muhahahah! :))…and, as a reward for all my hard work, my white elephant arrived today! bounces All the way from Michigan, as tall as my hipbone and wider than me, too! Kaz went through the trouble of wrapping and dragging all the way to the post office…a “Speed Limit 25 MPH” sign! more bouncing ensues
It currently leans against my kitchen wall, appropriately enough, in front of the Mac Plus cat and I are salvaging.
Did my package reach the intended destination? I’m fretting endlessly, wondering whether I need to trace the stupid thing, or just hang my head in shame at sending dreck that doesn’t merit a mention…
I was just blessed with a big ol’ (well taped) box from lolagranola!
Opened it up and out from underneat a wealth of bubble wrap, which will provide plenty of amusement on its own, comes a cat. Probably paper mache or something, since it’s really light, but it’s covered in flowery fabric. Lola claims it’s been hanging around forever, and that :: sniff ::, she may actually miss it now that it’s gone.
I promise I’ll take good care of her. Right now it’s sitting in my cube at work. Not sure where it’ll end up - my cube’s pretty barren, and it just might be the touch I was looking for.
And also, of course, there was a keychain - from Canada (complete with a “made in China” tag on it, of course, hee hee).
This was such a neat idea! Thanks to Cranky for the inspiration and to thinksnow for the perspiration.
I got my box from Kat (a local ChiDoper, no less) when I was on vacation, and it was sitting at my neighbor’s house until this week. My newly acquired treasures include:
[ul]
[li]a Valentin black bear stuffie[/li][li]a jump rope[/li][li]a couple of paperback fantasy novels[/li][li]a tshirt with kittens on it[/li][/ul]
Thanks, Kat. I will treasure them as much as I treasured the box of crap that I finally sent on their way to their new owner today.
I got mine a while back, but had to make a run to Vegas to help my sister move. It’s a whole different thread…
First let me say that some down-under doper is still waiting. The box is on it’s way, but got sent Yak back via Outer Mongolia, by my helpfull but not tightly wrapped friend.
Now, Zappo…
Let me tell you the wonderful plans I have for your…my…stuff.
The Charlie Brown mystery mug: You were supposed to pry the top off with a bottle opener. Since Schultz died this year, it’s probably a valuable collectable. Well, maybe. It could happen.
The shot glasses…anyone up for a second round of elephants?
Inflatable blimp: My best friends husband actually collects these. This will be the Christmas present he will treasure above all others. He has 5 different ones so far!
Herman the Aztec will be traveling to the Naval base at Diego Garcia to help my son celebrate his 21st B-day. He will probably look great next to the inflatable Christmas tree I sent last year.
Plastic drink monkeys: probably attending the same party.
Flashlight…here in California, land of rolling blackouts, a flashlight WITH GOOD BATTERIES is always welcome.
So, if you’re ever in California, I’ll buy you a drink!
Well, it’s been 2 weeks and I still dunno if my recipient got the parcel - then again, said doper hasn’t been on recently - so perhaps it’s a vacation/dead computer/abduction by aliens thing??
This is like waiting at a birthday party for the guest of honor to open the gift you brought, only to have to wait while the honoree runs to the bathroom… <sigh>
Whew! I been lookin for this thread, and wsa pointed in the right direction by Arden Ranger. Thanks! Guess I must have missed it.
Baker, I’m really sorry I havn’t said anything, I’ve been outta town, but I did get the ::cough:: beautiful Noah’s Arc statuette-type-thingy. It now really ties my room together ::cough cough:: But seriously, it’s actually pretty neat!
This is loads of fun, and I love reading about what other people got!
I got a lovely little package from Ralfcoder today. A pleasant suprise! I won’t even throw it away! A useful travel chess set (even complete!) and a pair of groucho marx glasses… they may be useful during sex roll playing. I guess I should see if my wife has a fetish for Groucho first though…
Thanks RalfCoder!
Now just to tape up that parcel I am sending to Michigan… I hear theres a pretty hot woman that lives there
I just realized that the ceramic geese that jazzmine sent me are actually measuring spoons. I was examining them this evening noticed the measurements on the bottom of each one.
I guess it committed white elephant suicide. Couldn’t take being shipped away with other items. 
I’m saving the descriptions of what was sent for cat to give y’all.