So the holidays are over....

girlgonemild shared a link said Fri, Jan 3rd 2014 at 12:57pm ET

With reindeer, carols, midnight countdowns and all that other holiday bullshit behind us (or is it?), I suppose it's time to return to work and move on with the new year.

But on last look at the holiday season of 2013... who has an interesting new year's resolution, received a bizarre white elephant gift or is returning something you totally didn't even want this year? OR more positive, who received something awesome that you love and adore?

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girlgonemild said Fri, Jan 3rd 2014 at 1:00pm ET:

I'll start with this: I was given a cow tea kettle.
I am honestly thrilled by it! :)

It goes pretty well with this item, that I already own:

I'm quickly becoming a crazy cow lady.

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spitfire6006006 said Sun, Jan 5th 2014 at 8:29am ET:

Not really bizarre, but my parents gave me a Dr. Who t-shirt and I don't even like dr. who

also apparently a car

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- Was the car particularly boxy and blue?
  
  JerseyFrank said Mon, Jan 6th 2014 at 2:55pm ET
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Ignorant said Sun, Jan 5th 2014 at 10:22am ET:

@spitfire6006006, car with a license plate frame that says "my other car is a tardis"?

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- no but i actually did buy one of those for my roommate
  
  spitfire6006006 said Sun, Jan 5th 2014 at 10:44pm ET
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nottobrag said Mon, Jan 6th 2014 at 9:48am ET:

I got some pretty awesome dish-ware: I may need to throw a party soon to use it! These are just some of the colorful selections..

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matthew said Tue, Jan 7th 2014 at 1:49am ET:

My dad gave me a 'possum skull, (mostly cleaned of its soft tissue) that had fallen out of a tree behind my parents' lakeside cottage this past summer. It wasn't really for Christmas, just at Christmas. Still, my weirdest gift.

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middlemanager said Tue, Jan 7th 2014 at 10:19am ET:

@matthew, How do you respond to the gift of a 'possum skull?

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- I pretended to be dead
  
  matthew said Tue, Jan 7th 2014 at 11:03am ET
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ceagee said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 6:41am ET:

I still have a holiday celebration this coming weekend. It just never ends. I can't wait to get the wrapping paper out of my room. Of course, if I actually wrapped things ahead of time, instead of day before or morning of........

Best gift : a large bag of cinnamon jolly ranchers. No. I'm not sharing.

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- I like green apple the best, or maybe strawberry or cherry or watermelon or...
  
  barnabee said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 12:05pm ET
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hales said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 11:01am ET:

One of the biggest hits in our white elephant gift exchange was this Lighting Reaction Shock Game that @plinville purchased. It basically plays some creepy music while the light pulses red, then when the light turns green the last person to press their button gets shocked. I'm pretty surprised that we didn't get one as a Seligman gift!

(Here it is on Amazon)

Side note - Amazon suggested that people frequently purchase a Flingshot Flying Screaming Monkey with it.

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plinville said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 11:23am ET:

@halesyeah, The recipient of that game sent me a picture of her and her college friends playing a blindfolded version of the game! I wish I had remembered to get that for the Mediocre team via the Seligman experiment...

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- yeah me too :(
  
  girlgonemild said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 11:38am ET
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ConAndLibrarian said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 11:39am ET:

I normally do not return items but I received a very expensive item from Nordstrom that I will never use. Since the half-yearly men's sale is going on right now, this is a perfect time to take it back for store credit and get some things I really need.

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chrisk said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 11:47am ET:

@halesyeah, We did get a pen that shocks you when you click it. Manny got me with it.

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Bogie said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 4:57pm ET:

I received a GoPro. Not sure what I'd use this for since I don't really do anything extreme. Still trying to figure out ways to hurt myself and film it in first person.

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dave said Thu, Jan 9th 2014 at 5:03pm ET:

We moved into a place with high ceilings (and high shelves), so I got my wife this, but she seems a little less than enthused to try it out, despite me telling her that cyborgs are the way of the future:

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matthew said Fri, Jan 10th 2014 at 5:42pm ET:

Yesterday a box arrived containing the Christmas items I couldn't carry on the plane home. Included: One 'possum skull, ready for cleaning. It's in this specialized shipping container.

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barnabee said Fri, Jan 10th 2014 at 6:25pm ET:

@matthew, open the container and take a deep breath. Is it smelly? If I don't hear from you, I'll assume that it is and that you passed out.

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- I have prior knowledge that it is, in fact, stinky (though not as stinky as you might guess). So I won't be opening it until it's time.
  
  matthew said Sat, Jan 11th 2014 at 3:24pm ET
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hart said Fri, Jan 10th 2014 at 7:00pm ET:

I got this little guy, who's now casually sitting on my desk awaiting April.

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