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One Christmas, I was truly skint. No way I could afford to buy even half eddecent pressies for everyone, so I decided to buy the worst presents I could find instead. I found a ยฃ1 shop that was having a '25% off' sale. I bought my vegetarian sister in law a glue based mouse trap, I bought my dad some cleaning spray for car seat leather (his car had fabric seats), I got my brother a feather duster.
On Christmas eve I laid the groundwork by saying, "I didn't have a lot to work with this year, but I think I've done pretty well!".
On Christmas morning, I asked to give out ny presents first and bigger them up again with ,"I put anlot of thought into this and I think you're all going to be very happy!". I gave out the presents and watching them open them with an expectant, wide eyed grin, like "I did good, right?".
It went perfectly. A slight awkward pause while they checked my expectant face, then everyone burst out laughing. They loved the joke, we were all happy. I have fonder memories of that morning than other times when I was able to give out actually good presents.