Nominations are open for the tackiest Xmas gift you received this year.

[blondeatlast]

You might have a very tough time beating mine, though:

Good friends of ours, who normally have good taste, actually gave us a 4x6 foot backlit, kinetic, nature scene picture in a frame. If you've been to Walgreen's lately, you probably know the ones I'm talking about.

Top mine--if you can.

Edit: I just realized a poll is disingenuous and I will never get around to it anyway.

[LWolf]

1. Okay.

They weren't given to me, though. Two gifts, both given by my first ex MIL, the grandmother of my grown sons.

She sent my 24 year-old son a jacket sized to fit a 12 year-old boy.

She sent my 3 year-old grandson a portable mini-tv and radio.

[Robb]

2. My mother

...who knows I never wear a watch, sent me a watch this year that you can't believe. It's so huge, it would look big on Lou Ferrigno. One of those big honkin' metal "tough" jobbies, with a digital compass, altimeter, thermometer, etc. I think if I read the entire ESL manual ("...look timing in dial, for perfect!") I'll be able to program it to take the dogs for a walk.

Seriously. It's as big as my fist. Even adjusted all the way down, the band is so huge I'll have to take six links out to get it to fit over my ski parka. If I wear it, my left arm is gonna get bigger than the right. :eyes:

[trof]

4. But, man...

it'll make you look so MACHO, in a just-landed-on-the-flight-deck kinda way.
;-)

[Robb]

8. ...you want me to wear it WHERE?

:evilgrin: Ferget it!!

[trof]

12. More durable than a potato

ya hafta admit.
;-)

[trof]

3. a chandelier (last Christmas)

She is our closest friend. Like a sister. Our daughter's godmother.
She likes chandeliers.
She really, REALLY likes chandeliers.
She likes them so much, she started MAKING chandeliers.
There are now chandeliers in every room in her house.
Even small ones in the bathrooms.
I think it has become an obsession.

Last year she made one for us.
Ours is not a chandelier house.
We are not chandelier people.
We don't hate them. In the right place, they can be very beautiful.
It's just that our house is not the right place.

It is now hanging in the bay room, the least visible place we could find to put it.
Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth, grin, and bear it.
She is definitely worth it.
;-)

[TNDemo]

5. If I knew how to post pictures I would post what we got

from my husband's 95-year-old uncle. He used to do nice woodworking but the older he has gotten the weirder the gifts have become. One year it was a windmill made out of bleach jugs, one year bolo ties with things decoupaged underneath and this year it is a two piece gift. Several of us have this gift but none of us exactly know what it is. The bottom part has four legs, is painted red, and the top part seems to fit on top of the bottom part and spin. It has three holes in it. It can't be made to hold fresh flowers because it is wood. Someone said they had heard the uncle suggest three fake flowers - one each in red, white and blue. Basically we just sit and look at it and spin it around in curiosity. At least it is not that five feet tall electrified monstrosity he made with little Tupperware bowls turning a water wheel with wreaths on the top that spun around.

[Skittles]

17. bless his heart

95? He is excused. :)

[Lars39]

6. A sweater a size too small, with horizontal stripes from my MIL.

And a fundy best-seller: The Purpose Driven Life( or how to chain yourself to the activities of your local southern bapt church so that you don't have time to remember your name). :eyes:
I don't know where we are going next year at christmas, but we are going to be gone on an extended vacation at that time.

[blondeatlast]

9. "Purpose Driven Life"

In other words, shut up and do as your told.

I'm a library selector and all too familiar with that one.

My sympathies.

[Lars39]

15. Thanks.

I'm still in decompression; takes me a few days to recuperate from my visits to fundyland. :silly:

[truthseeker1]

7. A really overpriced backpack purse

and in the "Americana" pattern no less! :puke:
I don't like backpacks anyway and my mom is on this kick. I have to just be honest with her and tell her I don't even like this stuff, or I will get everything in the Vera Bradley line! For my bday I got an XTRA LARGE (and I do mean extra large) duffle bag. I'm selling both on eBay but at some point I had better come clean, eh?

Here's a link to pictures:
http://www.verabradley.com/collection/luggage.asp

[Dirty Hippie]

10. Those bags are really awful. My sympathies.

N/T

[blondeatlast]

11. Indeed. Yuck.

[Amaya]

13. I have you all beat

I got one of those tree car air fresheners and some socks from my ex's parents.
I didn't expect anything from them anyway.. :wtf:

Those people are indeed WEIRD! :crazy:

[blondeatlast]

14. Well, but have you seen "Repo Man?"

For that matter, have they?

Things that make you go hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . .

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. A plastic statue of an elfin sprite or something like that,

straddling a big fat log. A tad suggestive, if you ask me.