Just got around to putting away some Xmas gifts and realised how crap some of them are.
Here's a real list of my crappiest gifts, feel free to add your own...
1. A lightstick. (because a torch is useful, so a one-time-use stick might be even more useful...)
2. A (very) large nativity ornament set with Joseph, Mary and little-baby-jesus in a crib. Big enough to go outside and been seen clearly from way across the street. I am not, in any way, religious. This thing actually looks expensive, which is kinda worse. Gotta love fundamentalist-Christian in-laws...
3. A book called 'American Gods', which is an awesome book, which I already own and have owned for years.
4. 3 different types of Bird-Feeder. My Mom is into bird-watching as her new hobby, and I guess that means that I must be really interested in it too. It only cost $30 to buy all the seed to fill them up, and I get to clear bits of seed offa my car every morning.
5. A special cloth to wipe the inside of your car windscreen to prevent it from fogging up - because its 1977.
6 Some hand warmers gel-packs that you put in the microwave. 3rd year in a row for these. The last 2 sets are still in their packaging. I have enough for a modified bean-bag-toss game now.
7. A Water filtration machine (also from my US in-laws) that will effectively filter out hazardous radioactive materials. I'm not sure if I would live long enough in a nuclear holocaust to make a nice cuppa, but if I do, I could possibly be extremely glad of the extra 3 seconds of life this gift will provide to me. Perhaps it would help the mad-max 'postman' type character that finds it in the ruins of my home in 150 years time? I'll prolly keep it around just in case. I can keep it with the 90 days of dried emergency food they got me for Xmas last year. I swear though, if there's no apocolypse in the next 5 years, I'm totally giving all this shxt back to them...
On the plus side, I did get an ice tray that makes ice in the shape of 7.62 calibre bullets, which is awesome.
Here's a real list of my crappiest gifts, feel free to add your own...
1. A lightstick. (because a torch is useful, so a one-time-use stick might be even more useful...)
2. A (very) large nativity ornament set with Joseph, Mary and little-baby-jesus in a crib. Big enough to go outside and been seen clearly from way across the street. I am not, in any way, religious. This thing actually looks expensive, which is kinda worse. Gotta love fundamentalist-Christian in-laws...
3. A book called 'American Gods', which is an awesome book, which I already own and have owned for years.
4. 3 different types of Bird-Feeder. My Mom is into bird-watching as her new hobby, and I guess that means that I must be really interested in it too. It only cost $30 to buy all the seed to fill them up, and I get to clear bits of seed offa my car every morning.
5. A special cloth to wipe the inside of your car windscreen to prevent it from fogging up - because its 1977.
6 Some hand warmers gel-packs that you put in the microwave. 3rd year in a row for these. The last 2 sets are still in their packaging. I have enough for a modified bean-bag-toss game now.
7. A Water filtration machine (also from my US in-laws) that will effectively filter out hazardous radioactive materials. I'm not sure if I would live long enough in a nuclear holocaust to make a nice cuppa, but if I do, I could possibly be extremely glad of the extra 3 seconds of life this gift will provide to me. Perhaps it would help the mad-max 'postman' type character that finds it in the ruins of my home in 150 years time? I'll prolly keep it around just in case. I can keep it with the 90 days of dried emergency food they got me for Xmas last year. I swear though, if there's no apocolypse in the next 5 years, I'm totally giving all this shxt back to them...
On the plus side, I did get an ice tray that makes ice in the shape of 7.62 calibre bullets, which is awesome.
