I wrote a fashion column last week about gag gifts and “creative gifts so amazing they can end family quarrels.”
No gag gifts this year. Grandma’s orders. The mass e-mail threw me off guard. The Heckel family has a long-standing tradition of Christmas gags — the supreme of which was always saved for the extended-family brown bag exchange.
A “vintage” 3-foot-tall Sammy Winder Broncos lamp. A pet coconut (similar to a pet rock but bigger and more annoying to store). Former state Sen. Stan Matsunaka’s face glued to a can of tomatoes.
Why tomatoes? Why not? The specifics of the gags remained a mystery. But one thing was for sure: We took pictures of them. We laughed until we cried. We regifted them. And we remembered them.
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Ah yes. The crappy gifts that totally rock in their badness. Check out this Web site and vote on the worst gifts ever: www.lottay.com/worstgiftever.
Here are some highlights, to uninspire you this holiday season:
Scary. Terrifying.
It’s perfume on the biggest damn necklace you’ve ever seen.
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