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What's a good joke present to get your SO for Christmas? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by 13esq@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My dad always likes to tell us about the Christmas when my uncle bought my aunt a tin opener (a good one!) for Christmas, she was apparently rather unimpressed but the story has given years worth of good laughs.

I also remember when my dad bought a holiday in New York for my mum and himself for Christmas, but the tickets were in a small envelope right at the bottom of a HUGE box filled with packing peanuts.

What terrible/joke presents can you think of that would be a good laugh on Christmas day?

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[–] sylphrin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Me and my extended family have begun a tradition of giving each other silly joke gifts instead of serious ones.

My father in law doesn't drink alcohol so I got him "alcohol-free" beer. It was just an empty beer bottle. Technically alcohol-free!
a couple of days before Christmas, my husband came back from doing the grocery shopping. I stole most of the non-perishable items when he wasn't looking, wrapped them, and put them under the tree. He thought I was a mind reader and gotten him exactly what he was planning to buy for himself until he saw them all together and realized it was his own shopping.
I went to a dollar store and just picked out anything with badly translated English and distributed them as appropriate to pad out numbers. One of them was a tiny plastic chopping board that claimed to be "high tech" and for "professionals". Another was a roll of duct tape. There was also a pack of serviettes that had "serves you right!" in bright colors on the front. Anything that was silly and cheap but would still would see some use.
I have a vegan sibling-in-law. A couple of years ago, we were joking about how plant-based chocolate treats for dogs were cheaper than the ones for humans. I think they've safely forgotten about that conversation now so this year I'm going to give them a little treat.
I think at one point I just wrapped a big box of packing peanuts with absolutely nothing else inside. I vaguely recall adding some rocks for extra weight in a gift somewhere, might have been that one.

Some of these would not have been funny at all if my family hadn't already been expecting shenanigans instead of real gifts, so keep your audience in mind!

The reason we started doing this was because our family stopped getting each other gifts many years ago and everyone enjoyed the lack of stress and being able to focus on quality time. And then my husband and I had a kid, and of course everyone wanted to buy her gifts. But we didn't want her to be the only one with gifts under the tree and develop some kind of weird complex about it, so these playful low-stakes gifts to each other were our solution.