Dumb Consumer Products Of The Month - Gag Gifts

What do you do if you have received a gag gift? Say, "thank you"? Then what?

Re-gift it?

Store it in your closet of gag gifts?

Hang on to it because it has sentimental value?

Put it on display in your home?

Give it back next Christmas?

Ultimately, the gag gift is destined for the same place as most of our other useless stuff - the dump.

Since virtually everyone has stuff at home they don’t want, why not suggest an eco-friendly white elephant or secret santa where you can’t buy anything - it has to be something you already own that you don’t want. 

It seems unwise to use valuable, depleted resources to manufacture a useless thing, ship it large distances, then have someone pay money for it to give to someone else who will ''enjoy’’  it for a few minutes, then throw out a few hours later.

Giving nothing would be the better gift choice. And I don’t mean buying a jar of nothing at the dollar store, although technically an empty jar can come in handy at times. 

Give Mother Nature a gift this Christmas and make your own gag gifts using things you already have at home and don’t use.

That could be funny, and potentially useful as well.

What do you do if you receive a gag gift? Let us know in a comment below.

Dr. Santa’s Therapy

In our last post we saw Dr. Lucy Van Pelt dispensing medical advise to her client Charley Brown... without a license. 

As straight up as her advice was, it would no doubt be labeled as ’’dangerous misinformation’’.

In 2024 Lucy’s ''the doctor is in’’ booth would be torn down faster than you could say ‘’only five cents per session’’. A lawsuit would soon follow.

Today’s post looks at another faux facilitator. This time it is Dr. Santa, who could actually be considered a good judge of mental health. He does, after all, know your sleep schedule, and if you have been impulsive and antisocial, or empathetic and cooperative during the year.

And now, finally, it seems like Santa has had enough of selfish, over-the-top demands from girls and boys of all ages, and has decided to be proactive this holiday season and help people manage their desires.

He knows attachment to stuff can be a dangerous thing, and that expectations have a way of growing over the years. An orange, scarf, and board game just don’t cut it anymore for the modern gift recipient, and the elves can’t keep up with the demand any more.

All in all, gift exchange, an important social phenomena, has been promoted to the point of sickness and excess.

Not to fear - Dr. Santa is on the job, and his DAT (Desire and Attachment Therapy, Buddha approved) is meant to be good medicine for all. 

Note: Dr. Santa is not a real therapist, and does not dispense real medical advise, but is still asking the right question - "what makes you think you need all those things?". 

He is not trying to spoil anything, he is just trying to make us all good, for goodness sake.