The Tackiest Gift for 2007

                                              

The Tackiest Gift for 2007 award goes to...drumroll, please...Sher of What Did You Eat? for the gift of  a grandmother's love that gave a childhood's worth of bras and undies in sizes too large for a child to even imagine had she not been holding them in her hands!  On the sweet side, as an adult Sher now remembers them with fondeness each time she sees hot air balloons and parachutes.

If you're just joining us and haven't had a chance to read the six wonderful "tacky gift" stories feel free to scroll down or click here: Tacky Gifts 2007 to be linked directly.

"Johnny, tell everyone what parting gifts Sher will receive for playing on our show today."

"Well, Glenna, since this was the award was for the Tackiest Gift, the award is as tacky as you could make it.  Look at all the lovely prizes cast off from your kitchen and cake decorating tower:

• One used cookbook from my collection, Party Foods. 
• One used and stained Wilton cake decorating bag with used coupler, and two used tips, one a writing tip and the other a border tip, one of which has been bent a couple of times and straightened with a pair of needle-nosed pliers (the writing tip...or maybe the prongs on the border tip, I can't remember for sure).
• For romantic cake decorating for her husband Bob this Valentine's Day (IF I get this shipped out in time), a half used can of red edible food coloring spray.
• A used pair of kissy lips cookie cutter with some flour embedded in the middle part (didn't know that was there and am now to lazy to get a toothpick to clean it out).
• One half jar of red-red no taste food paste coloring.
• One half jar of multi-colored edible glitter.
• One copper snowflake cookie cutter used two Christmas's ago.
• The individual box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal that came in the Amazon box with my Martha Stewart Cake book Sher so wonderfully got me for my birthday, except that the Cinnamon Toast Crunch has been replaced (I ate it) with my home-made granola in a baggie.
• And finally, 2 Celestial Seasonings Mandarin Orange teabags just because they were there.

Now there.  Aren't you all sorry you didn't win? Cough. Cough.  Be sure and send your condolences to Sher at What Did You Eat?  They'll get there before the box does.

For the second place winner, Diane, my tacky gift will be to finally deliver her Pampered Chef order from the party I had, I believe, six months ago.  I might even slip a one cup glass measuring cup in the bag just for laughs.  Yours and mine. Probably NOT Diane's.

And on that note, be sure to save up all your tacky birthday and Christmas stories this year so that next January we can once again play:  Tackiest Gift for 2008. Remember that memories can play too.  You just have to have find a way to make dredge them up.

Thank you to everyone who sent in stories, voted, read, and laughed along!

               

Comments

[sher]

Oh be still my heart! I ain't never had none of that red food coloring spray. My heart is just a going pitter patter.

Thank you to the Academy, and thanks to my parents, and the producer and the director.........wait, that's the Oscar speech I wrote, just in case I ever became an actress. And thanks Glenna, for thinking up this contest. :)

[MyKitchenInHalfCups]

Now that is tacky fun!!! Well done.

[Deborah Dowd]

Thanks for such a fun contest! I had to admit that I voted for Sher- the huge panties were just over the top! The real prize was getting to read others' stories.

[BeckyAndTheBeanstock]

What fun, and what a nice job you did of writing it up! I love that they were "too big for a child to imagine, had she not been holding them in her hands". :) I once got two used coffee mugs. I could tell that they were used because they had the brown stain like teeth that haven't been cleaned in awhile... (A gift from Crazy Aunt).

[Glenna]

Sher-LOL! Well you will now, girlie. A can of red edible food spray is a prize, I admit. Hee hee.

Tanna--Thanks!

Deborah--I agree. The stories were fantastic!

Becky--Oh thank you! And man, wish we'd had your coffee mug story. That's a classic!