Hey, I have one of those! I used it to make Christmas cookies this year. What a pain in the ass. 
(The cookies were good it’s just that clean-up is a mess.)
I made a batch of home-growed cupcakes this year that were greeted with cheers and huzzahs. Bestest cupcakes ever! So what did I get from Mr. OCD? A 24-cup mini-cupcake pan and six, yes, six expensive, glossy recipe books on how to make cupcakes? 
Dude. I KNOW HOW to make cupcakes, I don’t need six $20+ cookbooks on the subject! You only like vanilla or chocolate. Am I really supposed to make 24 mini rum-and-prune cupcakes with fondant butterflies? Or did you just buy them because you thought I’d like lookin’ at the purdy pictures?
Why doesn’t anyone every give ME an Applebee’s gift card? I’d be there the next day and I’d enjoy it a hell of a lot more than 90% of the useless crap I got this year.
You can have mine in trade if one of those books is “Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World”. 
Yeah, I get the “Please, can we have christmas dinner at my house this year? It might be my last Christmas…” from my mother.
She also gave me a battery-operated candle. Battery. Operated. Candle.
She gave my daughter, who is such a tomboy she won’t wear anything with even a smidge of pink or lace or ribbon or whatever, a pink sweatshirt. The very, very best gift I got this year? Even better than the laptop and the french press coffee maker? It was my 7-year-old daughter hugging that pink sweatshirt to herself as though it was the thing she wanted most in the world and saying, “Thanks, Grandma.”
I’m actually slightly teary even thinking of it.
100+ year old house, without a speck of insulation, and huge windows that just pulsate with waves of cold (storm windows notwithstanding). Yes, I too want a Snuggie. All you ungrateful wretches can send your unwanted ones to me. Tnx.
I bought myself a couple of those and I love them but then I have cats and I worry the young one would knock over a real candle while it was lit and then burn my house down. The ones I bought though have good smelling wax around the inner guts so it still smells nice like a real candle.
I didn’t get any lame gifts this year.
In retrospect, I’m going to renominate what I posted from the first page, the cold virus passed along to my husband and I by our friends’ three-year-old daughter. Whatever kind of nasty thing has been keeping her a snot factory for a long time, and already infected and passed through our friends, ended up keeping my husband and I out of work yesterday because we were just that miserable. Normally during colds I can do stuff, but yesterday was spent propped in front of my computer, sipping soup and tea. My first act in the morning after trying to clear out my sinuses in the shower was swallowing a couple Aleve to dull the pain of my brutally sore throat.
So I can’t complain a whole lot. We did get out of seeing insane father-in-law this year since we’re estranged from him and thus the family gatherings by extension, and that pretty much warms my heart. However, I got the flighty, probably-still-an-addict sister-in-law as my Secret Santa so we’ll see if I get a present at all, much less something worthless.
OK, I think I am just unclear on the concept. I thought it was just a candle-shaped thing that lights up, but perhaps it is actually cooler than I think. I’m not really a candle person, but I can see why my mom would think that an electric one would be safer than a flamed one, what with 2 smallish children about.
I so want to get my friend a pink one for her mini-Dachshund who is always cold, but I fear she’d hurt me. I may do it anyway. We’re going out for New Years Eve and maybe if I wait for the booze to kick in before the unveiling…
My husband was teasing me about the pet-sized ones, as I (by her request) bought Mom a pink Snuggie for part of her Christmas present, and he said since I’d bought one already, I should continue down the path. Our ferret is losing fur on her tail and back due to adrenal disease, and I insisted that if it got to the point where she was noticeably cold, I’d either knit her a tube-shaped sweater or buy some really nice and thick polyfleece and machine sew her a custom-made tunic-type outfit.
I can’t find the exact one, but yes, those are very similar! Unfortunately I don’t have the technology to post a photo at this time.
I must also confess I encouraged one of my children to give my grandma a Snuggie. Hey, all she does is watch TV and go to church, we were at our wit’s end! The other child got grandma an extremely cringe-inducing romance novel. Now Grandma can be warm and read her book.
I was gifted a pair of toe socks.
I unwrapped them, saw what they were, and I immediately got goosebumps. I am pretty sure that my teeth began to curl, too.
I detest toe socks.
:: shivers ::
We bought dog Snuggies for a couple of dogs in the family, purely as a joke. The dogs wear them without complaint, but they don’t fit very well (or maybe we just haven’t figured out how to attach them correctly). At least on these dogs, the back end is so loose that the dog ends up stepping on it while he walks, eventually undoing all of the velcro.
This illustrates my main beef with the Snuggie: the quality is very poor. I don’t mind the concept – just the execution (especially since some of the competitors are apparently higher quality, but the only one anyone has ever heard of is Snuggie).
Spectre, a Mac game for my PC. Little sister thought it was compatible as the format was listed on the side of the box as “CD-ROM”.
To be fair, she was compelled more by the looks of the box than the specs and screenshots.
No complaints on the Christmas gifts this year.
However, when we got married, we got something fantastic from one of my husband’s more religious relatives: a Jesus suncatcher. My father-in-law let loose with a “what *is *that?” After which, my husband held it up prominently and declared, “Don’t you recognize your Saviour?”
It was hysterical.
The daycare that my kids go to (once a week) does a Christmas thing… They have the parents send in $1.07 for every gift that we’d like our kids to give to people. The employees go to the dollar store and pick out a bunch of generic gifts. The kids then go in with the list and the money and “buy” us gifts from the “store” at daycare.
My daughter (age: 3 years) got a gift from her brother (age: 8 months). Unable to pick the gifts himself, the kind folks at the daycare selected appropriate gifts for him to give. So here’s my daughter unwrapping her gift… it was a holiday themed box that you might put a small present or hand-made item in. The box was empty. She cried.
Um,yeah…Fail.
:rolleyes: 
We actually have a stuffed animal - a cow complete with udders - that came with a cocktail I ordered on our first date - so I suppose it would even be appropriate.
I also got a vibrating, massaging HAND thing from one of my cousins. (It’s supposed to be for one’s shoulders. Yeah right.) With my boyfriend being gone I’ve been horny as hell, so the minute I opened my present, my mind was filled with lustful thoughts not fit for a family gathering, and I had to stop myself from laughing hysterically in front of my innocent relatives.
Why is a Snuggie considered a gag gift? I get that they kind of make you look like you’re wearing a cult-fashioned robe, but, I would luuurve to get one. I am constantly snuggling under blankets, and hate having to wrestle my arms out to do stuff. I guess I’m part of the 0.5% of the population it was marketed towards.
I wish I got a snuggie this year. I’m always cold, and it’s difficult to cuddle under a blanket and type on my laptop at the same time.
Anyway, my dad always gets each of a us a gift card to Wal mart. He sends it in an unsigned card and it usually arrives 3 days after Christmas. It’s evident that he just barely cares, but at least a Wal Mart card is useful. Especially this time of year. I can make $50 stretch a long way at Wal Mart. This year, we got our cards on time (and they were signed. Must have been courtesy of his new wife). Unfortunately, each one contained cards to Applebees.
I ate at Applebees once in my life. Nearly 10 years ago. I just don’t get it at all. If he absolutely had to get us cards for restaurants, why Applebees? Why not, say, Red Lobster? (A restaurant we’ve actually eaten at together). I’ll probably never use these and I’m really, really sad that the $50 I was counting on based on the past 10 years is gone. I would really rather he not bother at all. I mean, if he really doesn’t give a fuck, why can’t we just be adults about it and drop the pretense?
Maybe I’ll just use the card to get drunk.