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Floyd’s Guinness Book of World Christmas Records

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1. The number of people who fit on my couch on Christmas Eve broke a record.
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2. A present so big it was used as a coffee table.
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3. Best T-shirt
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4. This is the present I got in our Christmas Eve neighborhood Yankee Swap. I call it Steve Martin’s brain.
Post Notes: Other unique gifts in the Christmas Eve swap included: a vase full of tootsie pops, a water saving shower head, sex game dice, and Where the Wild Things Are slippers from Spain.

13 Responses | Add your Own

  • 1 Claire:

    Looks like a lot of fun, I hope that Christmas Day was just as good!
    Here from Michele’s today!

  • 2 Pearl:

    There’s a couch under there?! 🙂

  • 3 Ruth:

    Very cool decoration with the cups and lights! A new spin on the disco ball….a dollar store chandelier!
    And yes, I can see the comparison to Steve’s brain!

  • 4 colleen:

    That’s exactly what I thought…a disco party ball! I’m surprised you can tell it’s made out of plastic cups … it is!
    By the way, my couch is sage green. There’s just one little nano inch of it showing.

  • 5 Sherry:

    I am so glad you had a Merry Christmas. XO

  • 6 Coll:

    It all looks like so much fun. 🙂

  • 7 Rick:

    At last year’s in-law White Elephant, me Mutherinlaw made off with the Tiny Tim CD I put in the game. I now rue the day!
    Love the couch picture!

  • 8 srp:

    Can you explain exactly what a Yankee swap is? Is it the same as a white elephant? And yes, that does look like Steve Martin’s brain, or Martin Short’s brain… I don’t know which!

  • 9 Alan G:

    Well it certainly doesn’t look like anyone wishes they were somewhere else! Must have been a great get together. Even the dog is laughing.

  • 10 ginnie:

    That’s what I call a very Merry Group…looks like you had a wonderful time and I like the way you showed it to us!

  • 11 colleen:

    Yes, it’s probably more commonly called a White Elephant gift exchange. Here’s a link explaining it and all the different names it goes by. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange

  • 12 Terri:

    Looks like a good time was had by all and Christmas was fun at your house.

  • 13 carli:

    Totally dig the Obama shirt–even though I just found out that he–gasp!–smokes! He’s not perfect!
    Funky gifts are awesome. The best gift I ever gave was vintage wrapping paper I got on ebay for a friend who goes kind of wrapping-paper nuts. (She goes to Kate’s Paperie for $8 rolls, and whenever I buy paper, I’m like, “What is the paper’s square-foot-per-dollar ratio?” It has to be cheap–even if it’s see-through and made out of toilet paper.
    Here from Michele.

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