Unusual Christmas Gifts
November 21st, 2007Underwear. Socks. Handkerchiefs. Shudder. Christmas is a time of duds and clichés.
If you want to avoid being labelled the “boring Christmas-gift-giver” this year, you might want to peruse the below. We’ve compiled a list of… well, unusual presents to give at Christmas. Some good, some bad, but all certainly interesting.
Instant Snow.
For those of us south of the equator, a white Christmas has largely been something we can only dream of. Until now.
According to Thinkgeek:
It can be reused again and again so it’s also hippie friendly!”
What we want to know is, how many of these things would it take to be able to “write” your name in snow? Suppose it depends on how long your name is, really. Which is why it would suck if you were this dude.
The iCarta.
Now, unusual doesn’t always mean “refreshingly good”. In fact, this might be quite the opposite with our unusual iPod gift for 2007 – the iCarta.
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That’s right, it’s a dock for your iPod. That goes in your bathroom. Next to the toilet. Built into the toilet roll holder.
Of course! It’s so obvious there was a need for this!
Personally, we’re a little worried someone would be making crappy playlists with this. Badoom-tssssh.
We think that this iPod gift is wholly more appropriate; a 2nd Gen iPod Shuffle wrapped in $200 origami boxes.
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Sudoku Toilet-Paper.
Staying in the bathroom (and why wouldn’t you) comes this gem of a present, Sudoku toilet-paper.
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Yes, now you too can enjoy the frustration of discovering too late that there is no toilet paper left. Isn’t Sudoku a wonderful thing?
The Banana Guard.
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Available from bananaguard.com, the Banana Guard is the perfect gift for the co-worker who always brings in bruised and foul-looking bananas for their lunch (oh, don’t lie, every office has one). Just try to ignore the design of their “Buy Now” button…
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No, you haven’t stumbled onto an adult shop page. Those are perfectly innocuous banana guards. Honest.
The Penguin Tea-Timer
The perfect gift for the person that has accepted their inevitable fate as the world’s laziest individual, the penguin tea-timer saves you the unbearable hassle of waiting for your tea bag to flavour your hot water.
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Available from Signals.com, the Penguin Tea-Timer apparently always brews “the perfect cuppa”. That, and it also unfailingly reminds us of that joke where the duck buys condoms, and then when the chemist asks if he should put the condoms on the duck’s bill, the duck says, “What do you think I am, some kind of pervert?!”.
Aah. Good times.
The Traveller’s Phrasebook T-shirt.
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The perfect gift for any traveller, now you too can join the ranks of millions of women worldwide, and let your chest do the talking.
When arriving in a new country with a foreign language, now you can simply go up to the nearest desk clerk and point to the picture depicting your question.
Failing this, you could always do what most foreign tourists do anyway, which is continue to raise your voice, while asking the same question over and over again, only louder and slower, until you are red in the face and screaming at a frightened information official.
Available from Artlebedev.com.
Weird Edible Food Gift.
A gift that is guaranteed to be in the minority this year is a weird, edible food gift.
RandomShop has many succulent choices available. Want to say, “I love you”? There’s no better way than with the gift of BBQ Flavour Worm Chips:
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Want to say, “Happy ChrismukkahKwanza”? Then give the gift that exemplifies the season; the Chocolate-covered scorpion, or perhaps the Tequilalix Lollipop, complete with encased worm:
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Finally, Nothing.
For when you just simply couldn’t be arsed.
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I love the fact that on the product page, they “tick” the category “in stock”.
Well. Thank god for that. I would have hated the universe to run out just before Christmas time.
