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Inappropriate holiday gifts: Photo gallery

Posted in #Chicago blog by Kate Dessa on Nov 19, 2010 at 7:00am

Inappropriate holiday gifts: Photo gallery
  • This would feel awkward even at the raunchiest of bachelorette parties.

    $19.99

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  • Feast your eyes on a one-of-a-kind holiday gift: the three thousand dollar insult!

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  • Your parents might not think its funny to give your little sister a Michael Jackson rubber ducky...

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  • The only thing clever about this gift is the name.

    $2.95

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  • This gift isn't going to go over well with members of either sex.

    $57.95-$59.95

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  • You Hoosiers out there will be thrilled to know that Indiana Planned Parenthood offers gift certificates for purchase (seriously), if you're still shopping on the morning after Christmas Eve.

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  • If this is the only thing you consider buying for your wife or girlfriend at Victoria's Secret, you have bigger problems than gift giving.

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  • You might think this is a hilarious gift for your fat friend or your computer nerd friend. You're wrong.

    $5.00

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  • PleasureChest.com recommends you buy this necklace that secretly clamps onto one's nipples "For anyone desiring discreet and luxurious sensation". If you don't know someone who matches that description, don't waste your money.

    $109.00

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  • If you don't already understand why this is with the inappropriate gifts, I don't know what to tell you.

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  • I don't care if it's "Computers for Dummies", "Chopsticks for Dummies", or "Rocket Science for Dummies", they're still going to resent this gift.

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  • Don't give the gift of the "latest in sunless technology" to all your pale Irish friends.

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  • Tell people how you really feel with this spiffy t-shirt. The caption reads: "I don't make things complicated, that's the way they got all by themselves" -Mel Gibson.

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  • Hopefully you are never the first to notice that someone needs one of these.

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  • You're only suggesting one thing when you stick extra strength mouthwash in someone's stocking.

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  • Be the Commander in Chief, not some lame duck.

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  • Guaranteed to make at least one person in the room uncomfortable, if not everybody.

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  • Like a push-up bra for your ass, it's every woman's Christmas dream.

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  • This might be a career change suggestion your girlfriend may not take so lightly.

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  • I don't know if you we will see these hanging from your mother's tailgate, but its a cheap way to offend her.

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  • Your significant other might take this gift the wrong way...

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  • There isn't an easier way to let your parents they are getting old than getting them a giant remote so they can see the buttons.

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  • Your parents won't be amused when your little siblings take off these "silly bandz" and they reshape into their original form.

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  • These life-like pets only say I don't trust you to actually take care of a real animal.

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  • The only thing this handy tool says is, clean out your belly button!

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  • These cute mini basketballs tell your loved ones how you really think they smell.

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  • Doubt your mother will expect this cookie cutter to be in the mix when she is making this year's holiday cookies.

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  • Golf balls are always an easy out for dad, but I don't know how he will feel as he hits the right schwetty ball down the fairway.

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  • Someone will think you don't think the house is clean enough if you go with this gift idea.

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  • The blabber meter tallies in dollars, time spent listening to someone blabber. Although this might prove that your boss is a bit long winded, I doubt he will find it as entertaining as you do.

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This would feel awkward even at the raunchiest of bachelorette parties.

$19.99

The holiday shopping season is quickly approaching if not already here and the gift purchasing excitement/panic is beginning to set in with you, no doubt. As you begin to make your holiday gift list, you probably have a good idea of what to get your family members and loved ones, but how about that guy/girl you just started dating, long lost friend or new coworker? Be careful, gift giving gone wrong can be disastrous or just plain awkward. Consider these cringeworthy presents a warning and a handbook for what not to put a bow on this year. Hopefully you can avoid the trail of tears and raised eyebrows that Aunt Edna was known for.

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