I'd like to hear some stories about funny holiday gift exchanges.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

For example: My mom (years ago) gave my husband some stinky sweet shaving lotion. The sons in law made fun of the gift, so hubby passed on that bottle of lotion to one son in law for his birthday. In turn it got passed around to other family members. It has become a tradition. Every year it shows up, beautifully wrapped to yet another family member.

I know that there are other families out there who do similar things...

Please pass on your story!

[SoCalDem]

1. My friend's sister-in-law gave her a gift card for $32.71

It was obviously a "store credit" for something she returned..but hey.. my friend's happy tp get it :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. My son's computer chair was too big to wrap,

so we sent him on a treasure hunt. Ultimately, he found it in the basement, amidst a pile of boxes, covered on top with a loose piece of wrapping paper and a bow.

He loved it! :D

[ghostsofgiants]

5. I kinda wish my dad had been creative enough to do that with the chair I got last year.

That's kinda neat.

[alarimer]

3. We do something like that

Only it is a napkin holder in the shape of a snowman. There are holes where the arms should be which you stick the napkins. They have to be rolled up so it is a pain to get them out. The original belonged to my grandmother and everybody hated it so she came up with the idea of sending it to one of her daughters. It got passed around for a while, then my aunt made three copies so everyone would have one. They all opened them one year when we were all together. Now my family passes ours around, although I haven't seen it for years. I was the last one to have it so maybe it is put away somewhere.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

4. Me and my daughter

gave my mother the same cd for christmas this year!

[Bjornsdotter]

6. Figs

My sister and I have been passing around the same nasty box of figs for years now.

some times we hide it in the gift for the person to find when they get home, sometimes we mail them....anyway the figs are about 13 years old and you never know when they will pop up.

Cheers

[LibertyLover]

7. One of my cousins

sent my husband and me an acrylic penguin box. The top part of the penguin is hinged and opens so that you can put something in the belly. It's too big to be an ashtray (and we don't smoke) but too small to hold more than 3 or 4 ice cubes. Oh and it's clear acrylic plastic. I can honestly say that I stared at it for at least a minute after I opened it, wondering what in the hell I was supposed to do with it. Last year for Christmas the same cousin send us a decoration for St. Patrick's Day - handmade by her 3 kids at one of those paint-it-yourself pottery places, so the penguin was a step up. However I still think that it may find its way to Good Will. I'm afraid however that the ornament found itself in the Christmas trash after it splintered into multiple pieces of pottery shards from having been dropped from a distance of about 6 feet onto a concrete floor - pity that.