Did this last year and I think the year before? Always went very well with seeing what random, awesome or crazy shit people got.
This year in TheGerman household, I specifically told everyone that I wanted to take a break from the gifting arms race as I realized earlier in the year that I had entirely too much shit as it was, and was thinning out gear/equipment/whatever, so don't buy me shit. Told the wife that this year I wanted a peaceful non hectic Christmas and was probably the happiest I've been in a long time relaxing at home Christmas Eve with a LEGIT charcuterie board the wife goes out of her way to improve on every year with things like a fig/walnut 'cake' directly from Spain, some fantastic whiskey you basically can't buy because the distiller doesn't want to sell it to anyone that I got from a friend, and just relaxing by the fire with the cat and the only real lighting on in the house being the Christmas tree lights. Honestly wished it didn't end; but Ill probably do it all again tonight
Anything I did 'get' was stuff I was buying anyways and the wife said hold onto it for Christmas. But the best gift had to be the 7 inch stripper heels my wife bought for herself 'for me'. I win.
On the other hand, my wife got some random shit from people that I think I could enter into the 'horrible gift' contest:
- A urban jungle camo'd fanny pack from someone at work. Ok, not so horrible until you realize that its an actual cheap fanny pack that person used in the 80s, put into storage for 30 years and then decided to gift someone.
- She received a box a few days ago that I thought had something she ordered in it. She didn't know what it was and opened it. We were both confused until she read the card (mispelling her name) in it; it was a 'company' gift from her hospital that consisted of a Made in China pleather satchel that was designed so badly that you couldn't close it and use the satchel strap simultaneously. It also smelled like it was dipped in some hazardous chemical and stunk up the house. The best part was that this was supposed to be the corporate gift for all of the doctors/specialists; you know, people that bill 10s of millions a year for you. We googled it to find out WTF this was and it was an 8$ thing off of wish.com (free shipping!!). I'm still confused as to who came up with this idea and thought this was going to be awesome. I did make up for it and bought her a Mercedes for Christmas, so there's that.
- Someone randomly left a warm bag of tortilla chips from Chili's and some picante sauce on my doorstep with a bow on it. Um, ok. At least I can eat it.
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
This year in TheGerman household, I specifically told everyone that I wanted to take a break from the gifting arms race as I realized earlier in the year that I had entirely too much shit as it was, and was thinning out gear/equipment/whatever, so don't buy me shit. Told the wife that this year I wanted a peaceful non hectic Christmas and was probably the happiest I've been in a long time relaxing at home Christmas Eve with a LEGIT charcuterie board the wife goes out of her way to improve on every year with things like a fig/walnut 'cake' directly from Spain, some fantastic whiskey you basically can't buy because the distiller doesn't want to sell it to anyone that I got from a friend, and just relaxing by the fire with the cat and the only real lighting on in the house being the Christmas tree lights. Honestly wished it didn't end; but Ill probably do it all again tonight
Anything I did 'get' was stuff I was buying anyways and the wife said hold onto it for Christmas. But the best gift had to be the 7 inch stripper heels my wife bought for herself 'for me'. I win.
On the other hand, my wife got some random shit from people that I think I could enter into the 'horrible gift' contest:
- A urban jungle camo'd fanny pack from someone at work. Ok, not so horrible until you realize that its an actual cheap fanny pack that person used in the 80s, put into storage for 30 years and then decided to gift someone.
- She received a box a few days ago that I thought had something she ordered in it. She didn't know what it was and opened it. We were both confused until she read the card (mispelling her name) in it; it was a 'company' gift from her hospital that consisted of a Made in China pleather satchel that was designed so badly that you couldn't close it and use the satchel strap simultaneously. It also smelled like it was dipped in some hazardous chemical and stunk up the house. The best part was that this was supposed to be the corporate gift for all of the doctors/specialists; you know, people that bill 10s of millions a year for you. We googled it to find out WTF this was and it was an 8$ thing off of wish.com (free shipping!!). I'm still confused as to who came up with this idea and thought this was going to be awesome. I did make up for it and bought her a Mercedes for Christmas, so there's that.
- Someone randomly left a warm bag of tortilla chips from Chili's and some picante sauce on my doorstep with a bow on it. Um, ok. At least I can eat it.
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
