Hello! It’s super early here and I have some time before the sun comes up to get out and run so I thought I’d say hello to you nice people. (Waking up ridic early when you don’t have to is not cool.)
Yesterday I headed to my fam’s for some official business. It included taking doggie selfies…
and learning how to do down dog.
Thanks for that tutorial Bailey!
I wanted to just stay and play but headed home to work and pack and all that fun stuff.
I had fun dinner plans (extra fun because I wasn’t driving) so I tried this weird Ivanna B Skinny Margarita while I waited. My brother bought it for me as a gag gift recently. When he gave it to me he said, “Because I know you wanna be skinny… good luck… and because it was at the dollar store…”
Surprisingly it was good! It’s a wine based margarita (so it totally doesn’t count as one) with 10% alcohol. So, I’d say it’s like a glass of wine that tastes like a margarita? I might have added a splash of tequila because as a Mexican it was the right thing for me to do 
We have a long history of getting each other gag gifts. Our family has a tradition of getting something small for everyone’s Christmas stockings. In the past I’ve given him Pepto Bismo (which he was actually happy about! Ha!) and other randomness.
One year I found this ridiculous pair of pink chonies at the 99 cent store. I remember folding them up very carefully so it wouldn’t be obvious at first. On Christmas morning he was half asleep pulling things out of his stocking and slowly unfolded the worst girly pink underwear in the world. He was too sleepy to think it was funny. Bah!
I also like getting him completely random/inappropriate cards for his birthday like “Congratulations on your Christening!” or “Happy Birthday Princess”.
Question: What is the BEST gag gift you’ve ever gotten/given or heard of?
I need ideas!
(Chonies = underwear. It’s slang for the word underwear in Spanish.)
Hi, I just found your blog and I’m poking around through your posts. You are hilarious! I have to add you to my rotation. Also, fron here on out I’m totally giving inappropriate birthday cards to my bestie on her birthday!
Thanks! Welcome to RER 🙂
Love gag gifts!! At Christmas my uncle gave everyone scratch tickets and some of us won $1 but my aunt won $10,000 and ran to cash it in. She came back and it was a fake. We all had a good laugh with that one. My mom likes to wrap gifts in funny boxes, like tampon boxes and it is so embarrassing when you unwrap it. Oh or anything from the thrift store like a shake weight. I could go on forever!
For my cousin’s wedding, I got them a card with a very long poem that was in another language. I also filled it with mini rubber bands so they would explode everywhere when the card was opened.
Gag gifts are hilarious i need to start a tradition like this. When we were little my brother and I would always try to disguise our gifts to each other. We would wrap them with other objects (I got some cans of tuna once) so there would be no guessing. To this day i try to disguise gifts when wrapping them.
Katy Perry stole my hair…. anyway, our tradition for Christmas is that we have to buy our gifts for each other at a gas station. Do you know what kind of weird stuff is at gas stations? Very weird.
Gag gifts are hilarious! On a similar note I’ve always enjoyed the white elephant thing. I use to host a holiday cookie exchange for my co-workers and we did the white elephant thing and it was hilarious! Talking fish, dancing santa, feathered bra……….I think it got more silly every year (or maybe it got more silly with every glass of wine 🙂 )
I had a roommate who forgot about my birthday, so she stopped at Goodwill on the way home. She found the most ridiculous thing… a coconut carved into a monkey, painted to look like a hula girl, with an attached grass skirt. She said it reminded her of me because I eat a ton of coconut products (milk, butter, oil, etc). -_- Later on at my birthday dinner she paid for my meal so we called it even, but that silly monkey now frequents birthdays and white elephant parties. 😛
two words: yodelling pickle… with interactive website! 😉 http://www.yodellingpickle.com/
Hahaha I love this, you crack me up.
My friend gave her finance a fake “love letter” on their wedding day that said something like, “Heeeey, can’t wait to marry ya, you’re da best, LYAS”…poor guy. She quickly sent a real =)
Gag gifts are the ultimate “I wanted to get you something but had no idea what you really wanted so I’m just going to make you laugh instead”- but laughter really is the best gift, anyway, right?
One of the best gag gifts I have ever gotten is a Garden Gnome wearing my college’s jersey. My roommate gave it to me in college when we were living in an apartment (hence- nowhere to put a garden gnome) so Gnomey lived on the back of the toilet for a few years. I carried it around with me everywhere I’ve moved since. Now he finally has a tree to live under!
The best one I have ever given is a box of mints that numb your mouth. I can’t really tell you their purpose since I’m sure people of all ages read this blog, but I’ll just tell you I bought them at an adult store and I gave them to my friend for her bachelorette party.
Btw- way to uphold your Mexican heritage. Tequila= a must.
Dollar store margarita? Yes, you did have good luck indeed!
Waking up early when you don’t have to is the worst!
My family almost always buys me something with zebra stripes on it because I was horrified to see a *ahem* happy male zebra at a wildlife park when I was in middle school. They still think it’s hilarious.
Haha that’s funny that you guys do gag gifts. I tried to do that one year to my little brother. I got a huge box and placed a smaller box inside, then a smaller box, then a smaller box…all the way to the size of a jewelry box. Inside was a shiny new penny. He was not happy needless to say.
Why is it that you are unable to sleep recently? Preach girl! Hope all is ok. You never really touched on what was so upsetting for you. We are all here for you. Is everything ok with Ben?
My mom is Santa and my dad is “Bill” at Christmas.
Sometimes he gives us giant jaw breakers or boxes of toothpicks, snorkel masks, hangers. Random things.
One time he gave us headlamps and a coded treasure hunt. He has a lot of fun doing the shopping. Watching him laugh about it all is the best.
I bought the best gift for my husband. It was a remote control and I just set it on the coffee table. When he picked it up and hit a button, he got a little shock. It was hilarious, but even more hilarious because he kept pressing buttons! bwah ha ha.
…We have a rubber chicken that gets passed around in our family. But now you have to wrap it in disguise, so it is pretty hilarious. He has been stuffed with candy. He has been dressed as an elf. He has been in a puzzle…
Haha I have never really gotten one, nor given one, but these images were hilarious!
That’s funny you give random cards! Definitely keeps it interesting and you never know what to expect! I don’t really give gag gifts, but I’ve seen people fight over snuggies at work white elephant parties!
I love giving adults birthday cards from the kids section. For instance a card that says “you’re 4” but I add a zero after the 4 😉
My friend has a tradition for little Christmas. All her friends come over and we each bring something for dinner. Then we exchange “wrapped crap”. Basically it’s stuff you got that is useless to you. I got a talking pickle once. And peppermint shower gel.
I LOVE gag gifts! While they may not be exactly be something the person needs, I think it often shows you put some thought into making a gift that would give them a good laugh. I was given a pet rock one year (I forget what the context of the joke was at the time, but it was funny). For my friend’s birthday this year I gave her a bunch of scratch off tickets. We always joke about winning the lottery so it was a joke that I hoped would also win her some money. Sadly, I have ZERO luck with scratch tickets and she didn’t win anything…lol
my bros and I do that too! Last christmas my brother got me a pair of gloves (with those fancy fingertip texting areas) and wrapped up JUST ONE GLOVE in the box and made me think that he got a defective pack that only had one glove in it. I totally fell for it, too!
haha, that’s a fun family tradition, to give gag gifts. my bro and i should start doing that. hmm i can’t think of any that i’ve received, really…although my bday card from my bro this year was all about farts. BOYS.