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In 1981, we drew names and everyone had to go to a garage sale and buy the ugliest thing there – the kind of thing that the seller put $.25 on just so someone would think it had *some* value and wasn’t just junk.
My dad ended up being given an 18″ tall plaster bust of Queen Nefertiti from someone’s ceramics class. It was painted in light blue with a bright red jewel in her headpiece.
The next year, it was given to someone else, but we recorded with a black sharpie who it had been given to each year.
The rule is that if you receive it, you have to display it in your house in a prominent place. No sticking it in a closet.
It’s been passed down every year with few exceptions (Covid being one and a well-meaning but ill-advised prank being the other).
Somewhere along the way we started recording births and deaths on it.
CSB: My mother has threatened to smash iat several times – not because she hates it, but because she’s gotten it the least.
CSB 2: Was in a store and found several duplicates once. If I’d had the money, everyone would have gotten one.
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I just thought this was a great idea!
Made me laffffff, and glad I don’t have “family” traditions.
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