Family Joke Gift Traditions

[OtterOnBass]

Hey guys,

When my family gets together for holidays or birthdays we often trade back and forth gag gifts passed off as good ones. For example, I got a t-shirt for Christmas that my uncle received from my mom for his birthday. She gave it as a serious gift, but the shirt has a mustang logo and says ride the pony. It became a big joke and my uncle will not wear it. Well now it's mine to wear or regift.

One year I received a 'wet-stopper' that shocks you when you wet the bed. I didn't get to keep it though - the giver took it back to rewrap for someone else! Other gifts include knick-nacks found around the room and dropped into gift bags, fake poo, and more 'inside joke' t-shirts.

Anyone else have some funny traditions like this?

[jonathan_matos5]

my family(aunts, uncles, cousins) does a dirty santa gift exchange. ive seen 9v batteries be the best gift available but usually there is some pretty random stuff in the mix.

[iamlowsound]

Not with my family, but my group of friends has a gift exchange every year and the main goal is to make people laugh. It is a $5 limit, so we have to be creative. One year the highlight was catnip taped to a jug of antifreeze. This year the best gift was a rented movie.

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[Mark Wilson]

We always buy my Mom something COMPLETELY tacky.

Cause she hates tacky stuff.

[Loose Cannon]

Several years ago, I had a group of friends that would do this. We would draw numbers that would match a number on the gifts. One year I ended up with a dozen of those prickly things that fall from sweetgum trees in an egg carton labelled "Porcupine Eggs"!

[Techmonkey]

hahaha.... my aunt spent months talking about maybe bringing up a bottle of Dom Perignon for Christmas when they came to visit... but my parents absolutely refused all the same.

when she showed up, she was clutching a wrapped bottle. my mum spent the days leading up to christmas having a go at my aunt for spending all that money on something.



it got to christmas day, and my mum unwrapped it only to find it was a bottle of washing up liquid wrapped cleverly

[Aaiieeee]

Its just me who does the joke presents.. on my sister. Ive wrapped for her over the years:
-Table
-Chair
-Computer box
-a selection of her own posessions
-a bread roll
-yoghut pot
-apple core
-screwed up piece of paper
plus many many more

Shes too old to let it bother her but the first year I wrapped up a chair and it was the biggest present of the family. She was so excited.. and then so so disappointed.

There is a charity shop next door to my house and I was going to buy my older sister a hideous handbag from there and my mother a golden jacket but left it too late and they closed.