Need a great gag White Elephant gift idea

[Kirby]

On www.calendars.com you can get a Poo calendar. Each month has dog poo in different settings, on a railroad track, near a stream, at a mountain overlook......

 

[mumom95]

One of those Shake Weight things. The commercials for them are hilarious. I think they are about $20 at Walmart.

 

[marcyinPA]

One of those Shake Weight things. The commercials for them are hilarious. I think they are about $20 at Walmart.

OMG...I first saw the commercial for those at a Halloween party we were at...some of the guys were watching Comedy Central...

Anyway, being that I was a little, um...feeling good....that commercial struck me so funny that I could not stop laughing. It reminded me of a SNL commercial...it almost seemed fake! It was so suggestive!!!! (well, at least it seemed suggestive in my condition at the time! )

 

[marcyinPA]

Ok, I went into my basement after I read this thread and opened up a bag of stuff that my aunt had given me to sell at my next yard sale.

In the bag was an old 70's electric wall clock shaped like a flower (in harvest gold ), some Copper Craft stuff (a hanging butterfly, and a leaf shaped candy dish) and a set of salt and pepper shakers and a dinner bell to match, made of lead crystal with carvings of birds on them.

Do you think any of these would be suitable? I'd probably stick a $10 gift card to somewhere in the package as well....I hate for people to get stuck with my old crap!


Anyone have any good ideas for wrapping? The way we do our exchange is that we pick (and steal) the unopened package, so creativity is key! One year, one of the guys put his gift in an ammo box...that got stolen a lot. Any other ideas??

 

[golfgal]

Do you know how much those are? I think I might need to get one for our "Dirty Santa" exchange that we do with the youth ministry volunteers at our church! (they are a fun group and would get a real jolt out of something like that!)

http://www.drugstore.com/qxp213042/chia/obama_happy_pose.htm

They are about $20. You can get the "Happy" pose or the "Determined" pose.

On www.calendars.com you can get a Poo calendar. Each month has dog poo in different settings, on a railroad track, near a stream, at a mountain overlook......

I think I might need to get this for someone, I don't know who yet, but someone.

 

[mom2d&b]

I was in walgreens tonight and they have the leg lamp like in the Christmas movie. A huge hit at one of our parties was the book sex for dummies.

 

[golfgal]

Ok, I went into my basement after I read this thread and opened up a bag of stuff that my aunt had given me to sell at my next yard sale.

In the bag was an old 70's electric wall clock shaped like a flower (in harvest gold ), some Copper Craft stuff (a hanging butterfly, and a leaf shaped candy dish) and a set of salt and pepper shakers and a dinner bell to match, made of lead crystal with carvings of birds on them.

Do you think any of these would be suitable? I'd probably stick a $10 gift card to somewhere in the package as well....I hate for people to get stuck with my old crap!


Anyone have any good ideas for wrapping? The way we do our exchange is that we pick (and steal) the unopened package, so creativity is key! One year, one of the guys put his gift in an ammo box...that got stolen a lot. Any other ideas??

I would wrap it all up together, big box, get some fancy wrapping paper with all the "stuff" to go on it-fancy tags, etc. Make it look really attractive.

I remember at one party one guy "wrapped" his gift in a roll of toilet paper-just the cardboard end. It turned out to be about $20 in scratch off lottery tickets and the "winner" ended up with $100 .

 

[shortbun]

The comic hit of our gift exchange last year was Sarah Palin's book (complete with the big giant clearance price tag marking it down to $3.99).

I usually just buy scratch off lottery tix. Not imaginative but very popular.

Funny, I waas just going to say this. This year, I'm sure someone will bring
W's book for ours. We, the party goers, are of similar mind so there is no danger of hurting someone's feelings. We also have a few gifts that return every year. A giant ceramic dog, a bottle of cheap whiskey and some marachino cherries, a really old chia pet.

 

[KristaTX]

I agree, there is one of He Who Must Not be Named that holds the highest office in our land that I think our kids are going to get for their Grandpa.

When I read this I thought it was really weird that they'd make a Voldemort one, but still kind of cool. Although I wasn't getting the green hair association for him . Maybe you are talking about our president? Is that what you mean? President Obama? I'm sure we can say his name . I'm going to test it and see if it makes the filter: Barack Obama.

ETA: It works.

 

[clutter]

Last year, the big hit was a tissue box shaped in a tiki head (easter island, like in Night at the Museum). You pulled the tissues from his nose. It was from Amazon, but I don't know how you'd search for it. In keeping the theme, we found a nose that you hang in your shower that dispenses shower gel. (Green, of course.)

 

[luvmyfam444]

my parents used to pass around this ginormous pair of panties ( like size 60 or something) every year it showed up again .
Been to one where someone did a birdcage.
I was just thinking of some hideous clothes from the 60s or70s. Or satin sheets

 

[luvmyfam444]

Last year, the big hit was a tissue box shaped in a tiki head (easter island, like in Night at the Museum). You pulled the tissues from his nose. It was from Amazon, but I don't know how you'd search for it. In keeping the theme, we found a nose that you hang in your shower that dispenses shower gel. (Green, of course.)

love it ! HilArious!

 

[golfgal]

When I read this I thought it was really weird that they'd make a Voldemort one, but still kind of cool. Although I wasn't getting the green hair association for him . Maybe you are talking about our president? Is that what you mean? President Obama? I'm sure we can say his name . I'm going to test it and see if it makes the filter: Barack Obama.

ETA: It works.

See the sticky about Political posting-yes, I got points once for just having his name in a thread that was in NO WAY political

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

I'm going to enlarge a photograph of our President to throw in the pile at DH's family's WE exchange. They are VERY much on the other side of his beliefs.

We had the distinguished honor of both he and the Vice-President, visiting our hometown yesterday and I had the honor of being contracted by one of the local papers to photograph his arrival at the nearby Air Force base.

[BTW - it was my SIL's idea - she got mad at all the negative comments by them yesterday]. Being that I'm not a 'blood' relative - this should be tons of fun!

 

[golfgal]

my parents used to pass around this ginormous pair of panties ( like size 60 or something) every year it showed up again .
Been to one where someone did a birdcage.
I was just thinking of some hideous clothes from the 60s or70s. Or satin sheets

There were brothers from MN that passed a pair of jeans back and forth for something like 30 years. Each year the "gag" was how the jeans were 'packaged". One year they were in the glove compartment of a car...that had been crushed at a salvage yard

 

[disneyfam]

how about these gems.... pajama jeans. https://www.pajamajeans.com/flare/next

I about spit out my coffee when I saw a commercial for these. I wanna buy them just cuz they are so hysterical.

 

[PollyannaMom]

...Anyone have any good ideas for wrapping? The way we do our exchange is that we pick (and steal) the unopened package, so creativity is key! One year, one of the guys put his gift in an ammo box...that got stolen a lot. Any other ideas??

I've put rocks in the bottom of a box before to make it heavier.

Or you could make the package's "bow" out of a $5.00 bill.

Or put the stuff in a styrofoam cooler, and mark it "perishable".

 

[anniemae]

We did a gag gift yankee swap at work once and the biggest hit was the kids potty training book called, "Everybody Poop's." You could pair it with some kid's "wipes" or something like that. Depends on the humor of the audience.

 

[wdwiala]

I LOVE these ideas! Just when I get some good ideas, some unfun person decides that we should play a trivia game instead of White Elephant gifts...

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Take a package of batteries and attach a tag that says "toy not included"