# What's the tackiest item decorating your house?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 21, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-item-decorating-your-house/540219 "2010-05-21T04:49:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-item-decorating-your-house/540219/81 "2010-05-26T12:40:46Z")

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An orange corduroy chair from the early 60’s. My mom tried to get rid of that hideous chair during her marriage to my dad, and I inherited it when I moved out. My ex-wife tried to get rid of it during our entire marriage, and I still have it, and not her. Sadly, the cats have attacked it with vigor and I may actually have to throw it out some day.

Some day.

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**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-item-decorating-your-house/540219/82 "2010-05-27T01:05:09Z")

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> [@kopek](#):
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> My grandfathers tombstone. Guess I better explain that one - he died (as it turned out) 40 years before my grandmother when times were tough. All that “we” (well before my time on this earth) could afford was a simple stone marker “for one” basically made from a scrap piece of granite. When my grandmother passed away, we (me being me by then) all chipped in and got them a good marker with both their names. The cemetery was just going to pitch the old one so ------- basically now it sits on the tiles at my fireplace. It’s tacky in the extreme in some ways but I sort of like it.

I love this. It doesn’t sound tacky at all.

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**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-item-decorating-your-house/540219/83 "2010-05-27T23:06:59Z")

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I don’t think we currently have anything that counts as tacky. When my wife and I moved in together, I gave my old roommate my beloved Jimmy Hendrix wearing a green pimp hat while playing a Strat, lovingly rendered on black velvet and sized like a saint icon to commemorate our years of living together.

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**Author:** ![myriad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@myriad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myriad)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-tackiest-item-decorating-your-house/540219/84 "2010-05-28T20:22:17Z")

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[quote=“Asimovian, post:12, topic:540219”]

Sadly, I think _I_ am the tackiest thing in my house.

This just cracked me the f–k UP!!! I never LOL on message boards, but for some reason…damn! thanks for the giggles 😃

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