# Stupid Christmas Gifts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237 "2004-12-05T18:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Warble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ad7895/32.png) [@Warble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Warble)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/1 "2004-12-05T18:03:19Z")
As I was perusing the sale adds in today’s paper, I came across an ad for a “Hello, Kitty” toaster. What five-year old ever puts a toaster on their Christmas Wish List? Does anyone else think this is totally whacked - or am I just missing the point of a new trend in kitchen appliances? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/2 "2004-12-05T19:22:26Z")
I know one adult accountant at my job who is extremely into Hello Kitty. She’d want that toaster. ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/3 "2004-12-05T19:24:43Z")
It will sell. It will sell by the boatload. I was staying in Singapore a couple of years ago. In the lobby of the hotel was a MacDonalds. 2 weeks after I left, the place was destroyed by an angry mob because they ran out of Hello Kitty toys for the happy meals. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/4 "2004-12-05T19:38:57Z")
My aunt told me the other day that she’s getting my 6-year-old a SpongeBob SquarePants cookie jar for Christmas. Yeah, he likes SpongeBob, but a cookie jar as a gift for a little kid??? Ah well, I guess it’s the thought that counts. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/5 "2004-12-05T20:44:46Z")
I know one adult who _has_ that Hello Kitty toaster. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/6 "2004-12-05T20:51:09Z")
Oooh, is that the one that burns the kitty face on the toast? I would sooo have that if **Dr.J** wouldn’t make barfy noises every time I offered him a piece of Kitty toast. I’m not a five year old, but I often act like one. And I’m not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/7 "2004-12-05T20:54:46Z")
I never cease to be amazed about how many bizarre gadgets magically appear just in time to be purchased and given as gifts during the holiday season. I mean, the Presto Hot Dogger wasn’t a bad thing, back before everyone had microwaves. I can perhaps see the George Foreman Grill thingy as being sort of handy, if you’re routinely preparing grilled meats. But… the Salad Shooter? And just today, while watching the _Mythbusters_ marathon on Discovery Channel, I’ve been amazed and appalled by such thingies as Mixer Guns, Power Graters, and handheld electric can openers. Someone just wake me up when they begin selling 1920s style Death Rays, okay? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/8 "2004-12-05T21:46:35Z")
Well, I have seen a Hello Kitty vibrator… And I remember in the navy xchange catalog of about 7 years ago a potatochip maker - place to put peeled potatoes, it sliced them then ran them through the frywell built in, and out of the oil onto a small chute out into a basket of paper towels…I _really_ wanted one but it was like $150US=\ I did have the ezbake oven, a snoopy snocone maker and a ezbake variant pretzel machine, and a cotton candy machine when I was very young [back in the late 60s] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Warble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ad7895/32.png) [@Warble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Warble)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/9 "2004-12-05T21:54:36Z")
[QUOTE=aruvqan] Well, I have seen a Hello Kitty vibrator… We all have Hello Kitty vibrators. That doesn’t count. We do all have Hello Kitty vibrators, right? Don’t we? (awkward pause) ---
**Author:** ![Warble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ad7895/32.png) [@Warble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Warble)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/10 "2004-12-05T21:55:41Z")
I have to learn how to use these screens. I thought I was shrinking the text - not making banners. Argh. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/11 "2004-12-06T03:07:25Z")
> [@Warble](#): > > I have to learn how to use these screens. I thought I was shrinking the text - not making banners. Argh. :smack: It works better with the larger font. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/12 "2004-12-06T03:22:00Z")
Well, I was buying a water heater and I happened to spy with my little eye a teeny little sewing machine across the sales floor. It was PINK! So I had to go over and investigate this PINK sewing machine. Turns out it was a Barbie sewing machine for kids. OK, I thought, whatever. Salesguy approached and I asked him if he was selling any PINK sewing machines. He said, “Yeah, I’ve sold two, both to grandmas who were buying them for granddaughters. But I’ve yet to sell one of _these_.” And he held up a PINK Barbie vacuum cleaner. Not a toy vacuum, but a real, actual carpet-cleaning vacuum. In PINK. With Barbie all over it. “Who would BUY that?” I asked. “F\*ck if I know,” said the salesguy. ---
**Author:** ![mamakat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mamakat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamakat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/13 "2004-12-07T06:32:14Z")
I have a Hello Kitty vibrator!!! It doesn’t work very well, tho. Too many points…Hmm, TMI? My friend might get me the toaster for Christmas. I’m getting myself a Hello Kitty tattoo for Christmas. Hello Kitty rocks!!! Yah, I’m a dork! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/14 "2004-12-07T06:46:28Z")
The Hello Kitty folks and others like them must thank God every single day for the Baby Boomers and the mindset we brought to adulthood. It puts a little kitty face on every piece of toast? Hmm…where’s my Christmas list? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/15 "2004-12-07T13:56:43Z")
You couldn’t pay me to own a Beanie Baby, but anything with Hello Kitty is OK with me. I simply love her. I know it’s stupid, childish, and a complete waste of a large chunk of the world’s wealth, but there would be a hole in my heart if Hello Kitty ceased to exist. I ignore those members of the planet who don’t get it. You don’t NEED to get it. I get it…and that’s all that matters. (wishing there was a Hello Kitty smiley) ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/16 "2004-12-07T14:02:16Z")
Add me to the list of people who know someone with a Hello Kitty toaster. And a Hello Kitty mini water-cooler, and even a Badtz Maru stapler and a Chococat purse. I’ve never seen the vibrator, but if it works, who cares what it looks like? 😉 Personally, I’m not into Hello Kitty, but if anyone ever found a toaster that burned the Superman logo into each piece of toast, I’d be _so_ there. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/17 "2004-12-07T14:56:41Z")
I bought my wife a [Mickey Mouse toaster](http://www.kasbahouse.com/villawareonline/mickey_mouse_toasters.asp) last night. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/18 "2004-12-07T15:39:44Z")
I have the Hello Kitty watercooler!!! I mean, my daughter does… I do, however, have a Hello Kitty checkbook cover and cell phone. There’s no way to pin those on her. Is there? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/19 "2004-12-07T15:51:31Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > Well, I was buying a water heater and I happened to spy with my little eye a teeny little sewing machine across the sales floor. It was PINK! So I had to go over and investigate this PINK sewing machine. Turns out it was a Barbie sewing machine for kids. OK, I thought, whatever. Salesguy approached and I asked him if he was selling any PINK sewing machines. He said, “Yeah, I’ve sold two, both to grandmas who were buying them for granddaughters. But I’ve yet to sell one of _these_.” And he held up a PINK Barbie vacuum cleaner. Not a toy vacuum, but a real, actual carpet-cleaning vacuum. In PINK. With Barbie all over it. > > “Who would BUY that?” I asked. > “F\*ck if I know,” said the salesguy. My first computer was a Barbie computer. It was grey but it had pastel flowers all over it and “Barbie” written in script in a couple places. I was 19 and mostly heterosexual at the time. It worked though and that’s all I cared about. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237/20 "2004-12-07T16:30:14Z")
[QUOTE=Warble] > [@aruvqan](#): > > Well, I have seen a Hello Kitty vibrator… > > We all have Hello Kitty vibrators. That doesn’t count. > > We do all have Hello Kitty vibrators, right? Don’t we? > > (awkward pause) No way, man. They are almost impossible to get a hold of. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-christmas-gifts/278237.md?page=2)