Hey! I got someone's old shoe for Christmas!!!!

lol....... many of my family members expect gag gifts. This is a day of celebration not underclothes and socks like I always got as a kid. But I do understand, some people especially in this economy, truly want something they need rather than something fun or funny. Usually there are a few serious gifts in my group. Last year, we had funny ball caps.....the kind with short hair as the cap, some in blue! Actually the recipients used them during cold weather and had a lot of fun with them. This year, my hubby is getting at his age (in his 60's) two remote controlled toy helicopters. My daughter-in-law and step grand-daughter are getting matching monkey knit caps for cold weather, but they also are getting an expensive family membership to the botanic gardens. Last year, my grandson was given an anime computer program and a leg lamp like was in the movie "A Christmas Story." I think gag gifts are fine, if they are interspersed with serious. The best part of last year was when my step gran daughter wrapped my grandson in ribbon and paper and bows....what can you expect from a five year old?? Good fun and laughs. Hope you do send that shoe back but find an original way to do it like a box with a note giving directions where to find it and lead them on a merry chase for an old shoe. Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to you too, Birdie... Well, I never know people joked around a Christmas Gift, at least not in my family and neighborhood. Receiving any gifts is good to me as long as it is given with love.

Someone's old shoe for Christmas? There was not a pair there? I think your idea of giving the gift back to them with the box within a box would be a Great idea, and then maybe get them a nicer gift as well just in case they would not take the joke well. I can remember many times being upset by the type of gift I get from someone, and wish more people could think first for sure.

First of all,I must wish you a merry Christmas!What a fun, you got other's old shoe for Christmas.You are really a person who is generous to people .When you got it,You didn't get anger with them but put yourself in their shoes-money is tight. With the economic climate being as it is,they made the best of things,I admire them for that.

It's okay to receive a gag gift but not an old shoe It won't be useful to you anyway. If one would want his gift to be funny he must at least buy something good or make a creative one. Something that you can display in your room or put on your office table. Merry Christmas and hope you won't get any stuff like that again.

most of my families idea of a gag gift is to quadruple box the gift and use two roles of masking tape or duck tape, which gets pretty annoying if your the reciepient of several of those in one year! We also have a tradition on the other side of my family which we call hobo christmas. We do not buy presents for the adults but take something from our home that we no longer want or use and wrap it. When all the guests are together there is a draw from the hat to see who picks a gift first, the next person can either steal the first persons gift or choose another gift. We have definatly gone home with some "interesting" things from our hobo christmases

Gag gifts can be fun if they are not hurtful. My daughter would take that old shoe and use it as a planter for her old hen and chickens plant. She has taken cowboy boots, work bots and tennis shoes to make planters.

My daughter has some gag gifts up her sleeve. She is making chocolate covered bacon for her brother and also giving him a roll of toilet paper. I have in the past given one or two myself...it's all in good spirits though. My one sister a long time ago made a very ugly dish in ceramics. She always just hated it. When my dad passed away I took the dish....waited a couple of years and wrapped it up for her and put it under her tree from Santa. It now is passed from person to person as a hostess gift. You have to find a different use for it each time you pass it...so it's been a soap dish...a candy dish.....a fish bowl...fun!

I like gag gifts. I have never been hurt or angry when I received a gag gift, I just laugh when I get something crazy or unexpected. I have also given gag gifts to my family especially my brother and my parents and I love to watch their expression when they open the gifts I am from a family where we joke a lot and gag gifts is one of the ways that we joke and tease eachother. The gag gift is an extra gift and I always give my family real gifts as well.

I miss my grandmother so much at this time of the year. she was the gag gift giver of our family. she was always good for a good joke or prank at christmas. i can remember my younger brother complaining one year that all he got was little presents for christmas. My grandmother pulled a fast one on him. she found the biggesst box that she could and put a ratty old sneaker and a dirty sock in it with a gotcha note attached to it. We all had a good laugh about it and my brother did not complain about his christmas gifts anymore.

woah, if i got that i would be really pissed. I would rather not receive any. We don't do gag gifts here often.