Good Evening Ladies and Germs. And welcome to another edition of the NGIP White Elephant Gift Exchange Party. And by “another edition”, I mean the first edition.
A couple of weeks ago, a bunch of us bloggers swapped names and addresses and mailed (using real postmen and real postage and everything!) White Elephant Gifts to each other. And now we’re showing our gifts off!
My gift from Teri over at Snarky Mamma arrived in the following package:
A White Elephant Gift is an item that someone, say your clueless Uncle Harry, gives you and it never makes it out of the box and you can’t wait to re-gift it. A White Elephant Gift Paty is the perfect opportunity to regift that special something.
Often times it’s something tasteless and trashy, so this is also a great opportunity to use up all your tissue paper scraps because you only have half a sheet left of several colors:
Generally you want to find the most hideous-looking thing you’ve got so as to scare the crap out of your recipient when she pulls away the tissue paper…
GAH!! What the holy freakin’ heck is that???
So here’s the thing. I am at a total quandry here. If this were made (and worse, purchased) by an adult, this would easily be the crappiest gift I have ever received.
However, if it were made by a child, this would be the cutest thing ever. And then I would have to hang it on my refrigerator. Forever.
This horribly psychedelic marine animal reminds me of a wedding present I received that I once thought was hideous and nearly sold at a garage sale (except no one would buy it) and eventually fell in love with it because of its lack of mainstream popularity. It’s so loud and so kitchy and so hideous that I couldn’t help but love it. Let me see if I can go digging in my cupboards and find the thing so you can see what I’m talking about.
Oh, yes. Here it is…Ta da!!!
Awwwwr, look at that face.
Who’s a good fishee? Yesh you are. Yesh you are! Ah-boo! Ah-boo!
But seriously, don’t they look like they were made for each other?
The fish face was accompanied by a user’s manual:
… which may have been full of instructions, except that I don’t read user’s manuals. I mean all that techie stuff just confuses me and goes way over my head. I read BOOKS, not user’s manuals, but thanks anyways. It also came with this:
which you may recognize as an As Seen On TV item to hang pictures.
So I hung the fish face on the fish…face.
Gorgeous!
Thank you Teri!
And now if you want to see what White Elephant Gift everyone else got, they will be linking up their gift posts in the Linky widget below, so check them out!
I am so envious of the green goat…I am sure he/she would realy like to come and join my collection of cows and goat creamers in our guest house. I have never seen one like that before in all my years of collecting! Love goats. Kept a small show herd for around 30 years. Get my goat fix these days by goat sitting for friends!
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You now have a fish and a weird sea creature.
You MUST consider remaking “The Little Mermaid” using ceramic figures.
Hurry, before Tim Burton beats you to the punch.
YIKES!! But you’re right, they do go well to gether. I’m still shuddering….
Off to see what everyone else got.
You so made me laugh, which I needed today.
That is hilarious! What are some people thinking when they give gifts, eh?
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Since both fish have lips, I think it would be fun if you pretended they were on a date, and then you could make them kiss. Kind of like Barbies, except with fish.
Oh MAN!!! Why didn’t I think of that?! So instead there’s this sick and twisted backwards kiss because one of them is kissing the other on the inside of the lips. Or something like that. It’s lip-spooning.
Another baby goat pic post for you… 🙂 http://www.howiseelife.com/blog/2011/01/20/de-mille-ready-closeup/
Awesome! Thank you! Can I feature them for Goat Thing of the Day?
That is truly one of the most hideous pieces of “art” I’ve ever seen. Was it ever determined whether it was made by a child or not? If that is someone’s version of Folk Art, I am going to have to take exception. 😉
So yeah, as it turns out, it was made by a child. And Teri, who sent it to me, received 4 of those fish things plus 2 other animals that escapes me at the moment.
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I hope you don’t mind that I entered 2 links. Joy, my gifting partner does not have a blog, so I posted twice.
My thoughts exactly, Jenny. One for each of you. It’s perfect.
I am so mad at myself. Just when the perfect swap is held, I miss it. I mean, seriously, I am the queen of tasteless and trashy.
Anywho, the fishies are absolute perfection, for not being goats and all.
I was going to make some joke about fish in panties, but I think goats in panties is plenty.
I think you should consider renaming your blog “Crazy Acid Flashback Nanny Fish Not Wearing Panties But Disturbing Enough To Make You Run Through The Streets Naked If You Stare At Them Too Long”
Catchy, no?
Awesome! I wonder if that domain name is already taken.
Just checked and, surprisingly enough, it’s available.
Oh noes! I submitted my info to participate *and* I had a humdinger of a present to pass along on some poor, unsuspecting citizen of the interwebz, but I guess it didn’t get to you! I think Disqus hates me. Sigh. Anyhow, I don’t think you oughta leave those 2 fishies in such close proximity or you may wind up with a bunch of itty bitty psychedelic fishie babies! 😀 (LOVE those fish, btw – both of them!) Hopefully I can play along next year – I’ll tuck this gift away for then! Mwah ha ha haaaaaa….
Oh noes is right, Heather! I am so sorry. I feel terrible. This happened to one other person too, so I’ve got to figure out a way to make sure nobody gets left out! Something like telling everyone if they don’t get a confirmation email right away after signing up, to let me know. Please do tuck away your gift for next year and again, a thousand apologies!
Oh I’ve got it tucked away, all right! MWAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA!
😀
Next year, with bells on, okay?
Argh!!! That is what I say! What the heck is it? Ha! Too funny! A definite white elephant gift!!
Hugs
SueAnn
Ahahahahha! I absolutely *love* that you hung the new fish face ON the old fish face!
Thanks, Meleah! Total lucky coincidence about having two gaudy fish things.
Having two of something makes you a “collector of gawdy fish”, doesn’t it?
How long did you keep the psychedelic fish face on your other fish face?
Well, maybe about 4 minutes. Long enough to take the picture and put the cookie jar back in the box and back to the back of the cupboard. 🙂
Wow, just wow. I wonder what you say to someone that gives you that as a seriously lovely gift. Yikes.
LOVE this idea Margaret. I’m off to read what all the other “treasures”. jj
Yeah, this is turning out to be a real kick in the pants fun party!
I’ve just been reading all these posts and this has been so much fun. Margaret, this had to be a lot of work so I apologize for that Mr. Linky Nazi comment, you did a great job with and it is so much fun to meet everyone.
No worries, mate!
And thanks.
I thought it was Bozo the Clown at first but then I read the part about it being a fish. I would hang that with pride on my wall, so if you don’t want it you could send it to me or I could have my kid make one.
You’re the 2nd person to call it Bozo. So there must be something to that. I didn’t even realize.
Hey Margaret, somehow I submitted my link twice. Sorry about that. I don’t think it’s twice as good as yours or anyone else’s. I guess I have an itchy trigger finger.
Ha! That’s OK, I’m fixing anything that needs fixing. No problem!
What a cute fishy. My kids would demand to know who made it, lol and then want to make their own. What fun. I’m off to see what everyone else got.
What a cute fishy. My kids would demand to know who made it, lol and then want to make their own. What fun. I’m off to see what everyone else got.
What a cute fishy. My kids would demand to know who made it, lol and then want to make their own. What fun. I’m off to see what everyone else got.
I wonder how they made it, now that you mention it. I have no idea.
My human actually LIKES your ceramic fish, so if you do this again, you can send it to her. Me, I would prefer real fish, preferably sardines or salmon (wild, not farm-raised).
Ha! Of course you would prefer real fish! Still you got a real coo gift, too! Well, except for the light switch, which I thought was still great as I’m a big fan of David, but maybe not quite family-friendly.
Wow, this all sounds great. Sorry I missed out on this. Where was I anyway? Oh well, maybe if there’s a next time, I’ll join in the fun.
I should keep a list of anybody who says that so I can invite them next year.
I figured out why I missed it. That was the week I took blogging time off around Christmas, and I was not online as much. Darn!
lol that was great. In fact it was made by a kid and I received four fish and two horse heads ( not in bed). That is a fantastic fish set you have there. They were made for each other.
Oh my goodness, you mean there are more??? Hee hee!
Thank you so much, Teri – I loved it! I didn’t realize until the last minute that it totally reminded me of that cookie jar.
oh there are so many more in many more hideous shades of tempera paint…. bwahahaha
I almost tossed my cud. Which would be bad ’cause I need my cud.
hee hee!!!! I suppose you’d just eat it, Pricilla. 🙂
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I demand the backstory of that fish from Teri. She can call me up and tell me if it would get her in hot water to post it publicly.
For a while, I used to work at a bank that was across the store from Family Dollar. Boy, did we get some doozies for Secret Santa. But you know, meant sincerely so I couldn’t enjoy them the way I would have had they been meant ironically. All I know is, I spent 6 months with a sparkly resin and faux brass dolphin pen holder on top of my monitor with “da fent” engraved on the faux brass nameplate because I didn’t want to hurt the girl’s feelings. But maybe if I had she would have learned to give better gifts?
da fent? WTF does that mean? Is it missing a letter? Like it should have been “dalfent” which is German for dolphin? No?
Oops, typo, I meant Da Feng. My best guess it was a phonetic attempt at
spelling dolphin by somebody with a heavy Asian accent of some sort. You
should see some of my mom’s phonetic spellings sometime, they are things of
beauty.
Oh those fish came in a school. That was the best looking one, and there were two horse heads. Some family realized I needed wall art and sent me their art stash from their kids summer camp and wall fest has begun here at my house. I was passing the puffy fish love on 😉
I demand the backstory of that fish from Teri. She can call me up and tell me if it would get her in hot water to post it publicly.
For a while, I used to work at a bank that was across the store from Family Dollar. Boy, did we get some doozies for Secret Santa. But you know, meant sincerely so I couldn’t enjoy them the way I would have had they been meant ironically. All I know is, I spent 6 months with a sparkly resin and faux brass dolphin pen holder on top of my monitor with “da fent” engraved on the faux brass nameplate because I didn’t want to hurt the girl’s feelings. But maybe if I had she would have learned to give better gifts?
What the holy freakin’ heck is that???
Haha I’m a dope. I thought it was a creepy clown (Bozo hair).
Bozo hair! – hahahaha!!! It DOES look like bozo hair, doesn’t it.
What the holy freakin’ heck is that???
Haha I’m a dope. I thought it was a creepy clown (Bozo hair).
Ha hah! It’s fantastic – fantastically hideous!
I Know! It’s so perfect – I love it!
Ha hah! It’s fantastic – fantastically hideous!
I think those fishies were separated at birth. And now that they’ve been reunited, this could be the first thing of the year that’s brought a tear to my eye. Well, one of ’em.
Ha! I mean, I’m sorry to hear that. Or wait. I don’t know what I mean, actually.
I think the gift I sent was too nice. 🙂 I was lazy. I had one…just like the one I sent but didn’t want to send mine. So I sent one just like it! Ha! I loved my goat..I got a green goat! yay! I added the link. 🙂
I covet your green goat! And these gifts are all over the board niceness-wise. You saw the Godfather DVD collection right? Man – somebody totally scored there.
Heeehehehe, a mask for your treasured ceramic fish! Girl…tell me…does it ever get any better than this???
What fun!
God bless and have a great day sweetie :o)
Thanks, Nezzy! This gift was too awesome. A fish mask – who’s gonna beat that?