Christmas Contest, Day Six
December 19, 2009
And the winner of 100 temporary tattoos and 50 Target buckarooni’s is commenter number 17, Lisa! Lisa, your timing was perfection so congratulations dear girl! Now get your mailing address off to me at anita@sisterfriends-together.org so you can begin the new year bedecked in some significantly cool tats.
Today’s Contest: It’s the Saturday before Christmas and a whole lot of folks are out there rushing around today like crazy monkeys finishing up the last of their shopping but not you and me. Nope, not us. Here we are with all the time in the world to make up games and play them. What a life, eh? Well, it seems the least we can do is join in solitary with the frenzy of hurried holiday shoppers and post the funniest (or most fun) Christmas present we ever received whether as a child or adult. Tomorrow morning I’ll take all the entries received, write each name on a scrap of paper and randomly pull one out and the name of the person drawn will be the happy little elf who wins a container of Silly Putty and a 20.00 Starbucks gift card.
Ready. Set. Post.
Posted in Contests, Giveaways, and Games, Holidays and Special Times
December 19th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Chain Saw – not the ha ha kind of funny, more the “odd husband” funny!
December 19th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Hehe
i could read the number in the envelope so easily yesterday.
Anywhose my funnest gift was, this little half human/ half dog thing. I would play with it for hours, and it also was the one thing that meant alot to me. Because when I was depressed, I would bring it out, and would hold it very close to my heart until all my sorrows were gone.
December 19th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Jennifer–>Waaaaahooooo! I had it like that intentionally just to see if anyone would notice and leave it to you! Okay….funny gift that ends up being all sweet and touching.
December 19th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Holly —> Seriously? He gave you a chain saw? For Christmas? I need to have a talk with that boy!
December 19th, 2009 at 9:30 am
lol oh
i thought it was on accident XD. yup hehe xD i wish i still had him
December 19th, 2009 at 11:03 am
i like the addition of happy ornaments in your ornament bowl.
December 19th, 2009 at 11:56 am
My silliest gift was a toilet seat cover made to look like a turtle. A bright purple turtle toilet seat cover. I don’t remember who gave it to me, but I was 16 and not impressed!
December 19th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Amy—> You noticed! Those just arrived a couple days ago. They were among my mom’s Radko collection
December 19th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I was 8 years old and our neighbour came by with a bowl of rum balls and said they were just for me! Yum, the best Christmas ever! OK I was 8 and it felt really grown-up to be gnawing on rum balls en route to the third grade.
December 19th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
3 years in a row I received the same CD from a friend. The exact same Simon and Garfunkel live in Central Park CD. Anyone want a CD? haha
December 19th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Oh please. These stories are WONDERFUL! Keep them coming!
December 19th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I don’t know that I have had a “funniest” Christmas gift. But the one that was the most fun was the year I received my first tape recorder… a cheap Realistic tape recorder and a package of three cassette tapes. I was nine years old, and it was like I had been given the Holy Grail. I recorded music off the radio, made funny skits with my friends Gwen and Earl, and I would interview my family members. This was the beginning of passion for sound that would grow into a short, yet successful, radio reporting career. Definitely the most fun gift ever!
December 19th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I had a doll that had blonde hair and blue eyes in 1980. She said yeah, and a few other things and cried. I loved that doll. I remember my two older brothers throwing her back and forth as we were driving across the country in the summer and I was in the middle trying to get her back. “You are a really dumb doll,” one of my brothers said to her. Just then the doll said, “Yeah!” We all laughed because it was really funny. But, I sure did love that doll!
December 19th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Well, this was actually a pre-Christmas gift…
He really developed a personality and wit, and was very popular in our family… ANYway, I was in eighth grade and away at a band contest right before Christmas, and when I came home my mom, dad and sister all looked like the Cheshire Cat’s offspring – telling me to “look around and see if I can find something”… so I finally found Zeb the troll all dressed up as an elf for Christmas. My dad had made the hat, my mom the tunic and my sister the boots. It was so cute, and most importantly it touched me that they had all taken their time and together created something to make me happy. A very fond memory indeed…
I had (have!) a little troll doll from the ’60s who was my “buddy” from the time I was nine.