Any good ideas for a CLEAN funny gag gift for family gift exchange?
 

This will be our first Christmas without Mom since she passed in June, I thought at our Christmas party it would be fun to do funny gag gifts or white elephant gifts to have some fun. Anyone have a clever, funny idea for me?

What about the shaped soaps, the ones like Oreos or sushi? https://www.etsy.com/shop/AubreyEApo...on_id=10422469 has a bunch, and I've always had good luck with her items. They are hilarious to little boys (age and mentally), and hey, they are clean :D

I used to make my son for st pat's day soap with money in it. it could be fun to make it too.

i often got my older brother with a lump of coal. [real gift stashed for after the gag]

You could always wrap up a box of trash bags...hint...help clean up after the party? Or wrap up an apron. The recipient helps clean the kitchen/helps with the dishes. (Do you have one that was your Mom's? This will also make it a personal, special, not so "gag" gift and can be passed around year after year.)

How about buying children's books for each family member based on their likes or hobbies? A baseball story for the brother, etc., who is wild about the game? Ballerina book for the dance lover, etc. After the party, these books can be donated to Toys for Tots or another organization for needy kids. (Games and toys work as well).

Sounds like a fun party. Sorry to hear about the loss of your dear Mom. Holidays are never easy, especially the first year after the loss, but you are definitely on the right track. Enjoy!

Anita

If you online shop, a flying screaming monkey is always a hit at parties. They are on Amazon.

I like gag gifts, which actually have a purpose of some sort, rather than a total waste of money.

Crazy socks or hat
Child's theme blanket
Anything really gaudy but still usable - serving dish, umbrella, etc.
Fruitcake (among most of my friends, this is a gag gift)
Anything that can be re-gifted to a child

Ugly Christmas sweater... Setting a price limit or saying it must come from your house or some other ridiculous rule might make it more challenging or fun...

one year when we had very little money we bought gag gifts for everyone. Mysister had just had her first child and thought Dr Spock was all it we happened upon someone selling a set of child raising books at 10 cents a book so we bought all 12 books for her and her spouse we got my FIL abox of plastic aprons he was newly retired and took over all the cooking. My momwasatailor but couldn't sew anything else so she got a book about sewing.those are the ones I remember the most It was a fun Christmas even without much money

How about a "junk drawer starter kit". I took a mayo jar and filled it with stuff my junk drawer - twist tie, thumb tacks, clothes pin, penny, book of matches, etc. There was a poem attached, but I can't remember it now.
Got one of those twisty phone cords - voila - a phoneless cord.
At a family reunion, I told everyone that the company I was working for had big profits that year and shared them with the employees, so I was going to share them with my family. I gave all the guys diamond tie tacks (I glued a dime to a thumb tack), and gave all the women diamond pins (glued a dime on a safety pin).

Someone - still not sure who - gave the grand kids those hats that have animal faces on top and flaps that come down over your ears - some even with face covers. We all had to try one on and have our picture taken with it on. They were funny and we all had a good laugh over them.

Hey! My shark hat isn't funny! It keeps my ears nice and warm.

Wait, it is funny. That's why I bought it.

Ours is currently the Clapper. It was a fish pillow till I kept it, really liked it.

At one gag gift party, one of the gifts was beautifully wrapped but was TOTALLY empty. It was soooooo funny!

Our family has really cheap, tacky or whacky gifts wrapped in newspaper. We are given 2-3 numbers each. The numbers are then drawn from a toy Bingo tumbler that we have and the oldest person in the room gives us one from the pile. I have "won" two whacky hats, a 3' pencil, funny signs and giant glasses etc. Perhaps you could use a version of this?

Have you seen the butt/face towels and bar soap? They were a big hit here! Brown on one end for drying the "butt" and white on the other end for drying "face"!

My favorite gag gift ideas are:

1. A picture frame with an autographed picture of yourself.
2. A pack of batteries with a note that says "Gift not included!"

In our family it is anything cheetah print.

One I got was and I-pad, a sanitary pad with a jiggly eye glued on one end of it. It read,"THE ORIGINAL I-PAD"

Flashlights are always popular - something everyone can use and they come in all sizes and prices.

Yes! This is right up my alley. When my mom pasted away several of the other sibling decided to call on me for everything (as if I was the new mom of the family) I was OK with it for about a year but then it got really annoying went they call and ask for "Mama Sue", so this is what I did.

I made a huge pair of panties and put them in a box with a note that read said " You are all grown up now, Here's your big girl/boy panties". It didn't take them long to learn "I wasn't mom". I will still help them out as needed just don't call me "mama", she is not replaceable, just missed.

Not that you are having this sort of problem, but it is a funny way to look at things and I think you could use this same idea but with different wording.

LOL!!! These are great!!

Personably I don't like to get or receive gag gifts. I feel it is a waste of money, and you take it home it is just thrown in the trash. I have enough junk in my house, I don't need more. I hope I don't sound like a scrooge.

I just don't see anything funny about your "I-Pad". I think it is embarrassing.

So funny!!!

I totally agree. Just rude. Imho. Needs to be rule about gifts that can be deemed rude or unkind.

Our ages span 19 years, so it was a little hard to appeal to all of us 40 years ago. When we were all home in July one year we had Christmas in July. We went to the dime store (remember those) with $12. in our pocket and bought presents for everyone. Eash one specific tho a particular person and wrote a poem to go with it. Lights in the fire place for a fire and put up the tree. It was one of the most memorable Christmas we had. and the warmest.

In this situation it is more about the laughter and fun during the game than it is about taking something valuable home to use.

My family would have died laughing at this one. :)

I guess it is our odd sense of humor.

one year my mom gave me a "diamond pin"-- it was a brand new shiny dime taped on a recipe card, with a lovely new safety pin, pinned through the card right next to it. she didn't lie--it was a "dime 'n pin".

she gave her niece a "two carrot ring", too--two fresh carrots with a shower curtain ring around them. lovely thought!

one year she gave me an "electric dishwasher"--part of a shortened electric cord stitched into the corner of a dishcloth. (she was not above raiding dad's workshop to find "parts" for her gifts.)

one gift was a box "mixed nuts" that was just a wonderfully random collection of family photos, with her "special" captions of everyone. yep. mom was a closet crazy. she always looked so "normal" and straight -faced, but she carried a bit of the wacky in her sense of humor.

she was fond of giving each of us a pair of socks, as a group--she would mix and match the crazy patterns so no two pairs were alike. christmas socks were the most common victims. even though mom has been gone for ten years, now, several of us still have those "pairs" of socks, and we wear them on the holidays, and laugh and tell the stories. we all still miss her...

Ditto to that. If the pad is abrasive to you, you could always use a plain color hot pad and do the same thing.

We would also fit into this category. lol