Holiday pranksters check in HERE!

[gr8tpanther]

Every family has them, someone who just HAS to be the wisebutt! Whether you ARE this person, or this person has used you for a nasty Christmas prank, tell us your story!

For me? I AM the prankster! Here was my all time favorite of MANY!

My brother... Mr. Science Geek as a child! One year I bought him a microscope, next year I bought him a chemistry set with a note that said... "Don't create any explosions"! One year, I bought him this really cool Science Encyclopedia set! Well, I wrapped EACH book separately, and I put put them in many different boxes. Some boxes had wrapped bricks, some he had to dig, and ONE was a refrigerator box with just ONE book! Took him a VERY long time to find and unwrap ALL those books! The funny part about that is, when he saw his "stack" he thought he hit the jackpot that Christmas! Although he loved his gift, and learned ALOT from it, he was rather frustrated by the time he got to the 5th or 6th book and there were about 15 books in the set!

Ok, so lets here some of those pranks!

 

[disykat]

We don't really have any holiday prank traditions, but I have a friend whose family regifts a smashed ping pong ball. Some years it doesn't show up, other years it does. You never know when, or who is going to get it - all wrapped up of course.

My boys are getting a game system this year - and they obviously know it. They keep telling me about ads they've seen, games they're going to play, etc. I'm thinking of sending them on some kind of scavenger hunt for it, but haven't worked out the details yet. Maybe someone on this thread will give me an idea!

 

[sleepyone]

We don't really have any holiday prank traditions, but I have a friend whose family regifts a smashed ping pong ball. Some years it doesn't show up, other years it does. You never know when, or who is going to get it - all wrapped up of course.

My boys are getting a game system this year - and they obviously know it. They keep telling me about ads they've seen, games they're going to play, etc. I'm thinking of sending them on some kind of scavenger hunt for it, but haven't worked out the details yet. Maybe someone on this thread will give me an idea!

An idea I mentioned on another thread was to wrap something else (a scarf???)in the game system box. When they have that puzzled look and start asking questions about the system, just tell them you found an empty box to wrap the "great gift in....you didn't buy a system".

 

[gr8tpanther]

We don't really have any holiday prank traditions, but I have a friend whose family regifts a smashed ping pong ball. Some years it doesn't show up, other years it does. You never know when, or who is going to get it - all wrapped up of course.

My boys are getting a game system this year - and they obviously know it. They keep telling me about ads they've seen, games they're going to play, etc. I'm thinking of sending them on some kind of scavenger hunt for it, but haven't worked out the details yet. Maybe someone on this thread will give me an idea!

Well, hmmmm.... I think what I would do, since they THINK they know they are getting it... ISSSSSSSSSSsss... take the system and any games you might be giving, and wrap them, but don't put them under the tree. Put EVERYTHING else under it, and when they are DONE, and they SEE they didn't get this game system, well, they start to pout. Then I would put this system in a rather obvios spot, where they are SURE to see it, and find a way to draw some attention to it "To Boys From Santa" in BIG writing, something like that, and let them find it, but act like you didn't see it.

A scavenger hunt works too, but wouldn't make reference to that at all till everything is done, put the first clue in their stocking and let them do the stockings last.

 

[disneynutt1225]

I had my appendix taken out a couple of months before Christmas one year. Well, my father jokingly said that he wanted me to hold on to the staples they used because he ran out of them for his stapler (ha....ha.....). Guess what he got for Christmas that year? Yup, the staples from my surgery. It's been 11 years and I think he STILL has the box of staples on his desk at home.

 

[lewdyan1]

I had my appendix taken out a couple of months before Christmas one year. Well, my father jokingly said that he wanted me to hold on to the staples they used because he ran out of them for his stapler (ha....ha.....). Guess what he got for Christmas that year? Yup, the staples from my surgery. It's been 11 years and I think he STILL has the box of staples on his desk at home.

Eeewwww!

 

[ChristmasElf]

Well, hmmmm.... I think what I would do, since they THINK they know they are getting it... ISSSSSSSSSSsss... take the system and any games you might be giving, and wrap them, but don't put them under the tree. Put EVERYTHING else under it, and when they are DONE, and they SEE they didn't get this game system, well, they start to pout. Then I would put this system in a rather obvios spot, where they are SURE to see it, and find a way to draw some attention to it "To Boys From Santa" in BIG writing, something like that, and let them find it, but act like you didn't see it.

A scavenger hunt works too, but wouldn't make reference to that at all till everything is done, put the first clue in their stocking and let them do the stockings last.

Or you could make it look like Santa was playing with the system by setting it all up and putting a Christmas cookie with a bite out of it and half a glass of milk close by. Sprinkle some "snow" on the carpet with that fake snow that WalMart or a Christmas store stocks.

 

[disneynutt1225]

Eeewwww!

LOL, well they were sterilized, yeesh!

 

[jedi_librarian]

My Mom's co-worker is coordinating their Secret Santa. Well, the rule was you HAD to keep the name a secret. One of my mom's co-workers slipped and told her who she got (The name she picked was the guy who's coordinating it). My mom told her "How can that be? I picked his name, too!". Apparently everyone got his name. They haven't told him they discovered his trick, but they're planning something revengeful!

 

[MagicalMom]

My Mom's co-worker is coordinating their Secret Santa. Well, the rule was you HAD to keep the name a secret. One of my mom's co-workers slipped and told her who she got (The name she picked was the guy who's coordinating it). My mom told her "How can that be? I picked his name, too!". Apparently everyone got his name. They haven't told him they discovered his trick, but they're planning something revengeful!

Haaaaaaa! That is so funny! Let us know what they do to him!

 

[anut4disney]

The biggest and best prank at Christmas was given to me from my mother. I was having one of those DUH years where I left my brain in my bottom drawer or maybe hidden in my closet.

She wrapped up this beautiful package and when I unwrapped I found a can of pig brains. She told me that I needed all the help that I could get.
Actually there are days when I could use that can of pigs brains.

I really miss that lady.

 

[disykat]

Thanks for the Santa suggestions for my boys game system. Unfortunately they are 10 and 13 so they're assuming I bought it at Costco - and they're right! I don't think pretending we didn't get it will work, so I'm thinking of ways to make getting it little more difficult. I'm thinking of a fairly sophisticated scavenger hunt with riddles to solve in order to find the next clue, etc.