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Advent & Advert Calendars Updated!

The Advent Calendar rages on as Mare, Knacks and Kuse share their very first Christmas tree together. And make big sushi plans. Elsewhere, Dearfoams slippers sneak a mention onto the Advert Calendar. I'll be back later today with some more stocking stuffer reviews -- picked up a bunch this weekend while out shopping for presents, something I wouldn't go through again even if Sears started handing free hams covered with silver dollars to every customer.

Survey: What's the best/your favorite/weirdest Christmas/holiday decoration you own? We pulled out all of our shit today, and I can't believe how much Christmas junk we've accumulated. This year's haul is one for the books -- wait till you see the pics.

Posted by Matt on 12/05/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 44 comments

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Chestnuts roasted by Grant @ 12/05/2004 11:28 PM

I own a fake chirstmas apple that I took a bit out of when I was three. Now it has a big whole with bite marks. Yet I LOVE that APPLE!

Chestnuts roasted by BallerinaDancer @ 12/05/2004 11:29 PM

We are also putting a Santa mannequin out the front sitting on the road with blood stains and an axe, scaring the kiddies is the best part of christmas, we had a dead santa last year, this year he is a killer!

Chestnuts roasted by Grant @ 12/05/2004 11:31 PM

My fave will always be the ornament that features Woodstock driving a firetruck while wearing a santa hat. It isn’t that weird but since i can remember I have always requested to put that ornament on the tree…

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 12/05/2004 11:40 PM

one ornament that we have that is kinda weird is a green metal tree covered in red old school pull tabs for cans!!! it is pretty silly indeed….

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 12/05/2004 11:45 PM

I put my Christmas stuff out last week. My parents keep my three large boxes of Christmas decorations in their garage because the boxes alone take up more than half my living room. Either they bring the stuff over right after Thanksgiving or they bring it over right after New Year’s. They’re busy people in December.

Mom gives (or makes) my siblings and I a Christmas ornament every year, so it’s a tough call to say which is my favorite. I got this nifty big-ass snowflake ornament that looks like it’s made of icing last year – that’ll do for now. I also still have the sequin-covered Frosty the Snowman stocking my aunt made me when I was three, and I deck almost my entire teddy bear collection in winter gear and stick them under the tree (which is the only place in my apartment big enough for all of them).

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 12/05/2004 11:50 PM

I have a set of three porcelain Christmas angels playing various musical instruments. The one playing what I assume is a lute got decapitated in an impromptu holiday wrestling match when I was little. To save the day and get us out of trouble, my uncle accidentally super-glued her head back on…BACKWARDS. What on earth can you do about that? It’s not like you can try to re-break her head off; the whole thing would shatter. I took the set when I left home, and get a huge kick out of displaying the trio every year.

Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 12/05/2004 11:54 PM

I have several favorite ornaments and such, but the main one that comes to mind (also the one that would probably be most appropriate to this site) is the Energizer Bunny. He’s made out of clear plastic, and I suppose it’s meant to look like glass, and there he is, just beating away at his drum.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 12/06/2004 12:17 PM

A weird holiday decoration from my past was something that we called the "Santa From Hell". It was this Santa in a sleigh with a reindeer, and it was all plastic. You turn it on, and it rolls and goes in circles, and the eyes on both the Santa and reindeer LIGHT UP. And for some reason, we had a ton of these, so we used to just give them to anyone that wanted to enjoy the same kind of "joy" that the "Santa From Hell" gave us.

Now, in my new apartment, there’s a new tradition – we decorate the fake ficus tree (that my boyfriend and his roommate bought on a whim from Ames back in college and carried it back to their dorm while on roller blades) with lights, tinsel, and cheap red fuzzy ornament balls. If I can find my Christmas Pickle, that would be a good addition to the tree.

Chestnuts roasted by Sara @ 12/06/2004 12:17 PM

Also-where is that gnome guy at the bottom of some pages from? It’s the one that when you click on him, he brings you back to the main page. He looks so familiar…

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 12/06/2004 12:20 PM

Hey I went to the Photog page and put it in print preview….532 pages, medium size font in Internet Explorer. I would have posted this there but I can’t. Anyway someone asked so there ya go.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr King @ 12/06/2004 12:34 PM

For me, Christmas is not complete without watching "Claymation Christmas" featuring…..The California Raisins!!! (My personal favorite). The husband rolls his eyes and groans every Christmas Adam (the day before Christmas Eve), when I gleefully pull it out and make him watch it. Oh, man, I am getting sooo excited!
"You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen…"

Chestnuts roasted by inquisitivewoman @ 12/06/2004 1:10 AM

Here in Korea, I have to pick up a spare amount of Christmas gear, so the favorite piece I own so far is a Jazzy Santa I picked up in a department store for 15,000 won ($15). It’s about 10 inches high and takes two batteries. Whenhe’s on he belts christmas classics out of a little saxophone and gyrates lewdly at anybody passing. I love my crazy horny santa!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Snake-eyes @ 12/06/2004 1:11 AM

Speaking of…
Matt – why don’t you do a "Claymation Christmas" review? Or have you done one in the past? (I’m a new lurker)

Chestnuts roasted by inquisitivewoman @ 12/06/2004 1:12 AM

inquisitive woman–How about the ice skating walruses (walri?) and the terrified penguins (YAAAAAAAHHHH)?!! What a classic!!

Chestnuts roasted by Snake-Eyes @ 12/06/2004 1:13 AM

I’m with inquisitive woman on this one. You know you love the raisins, and the claymation is pure Will Vinton craziness. When you see the three camels doing their best impersonation of Luther Vandross singing "We Three Kings", you will know that life is worth living.

Chestnuts roasted by Snake-Eyes @ 12/06/2004 1:18 AM

I think that is David the Gnome from an old Nickleodeon show. It sucked, so I always skipped that shit.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 12/06/2004 1:52 AM

Snake-Eyes – So adorable!!
The bad thing is that my VHS cuts out right after the penguins and comes back in the middle of the next clip, so I’ve never seen what happens to the "walri" !!

Chestnuts roasted by inquisitivewoman @ 12/06/2004 1:57 AM

My favorite AND weirdest holiday decoration I own is a paper ornament I made in first grade. It’s shaped like a Christmas tree and it says, in giant glitter letters, "OH YEAH!!" How can an ornament possibly be better? You are all jealous of me now.

That Dearfoams ad is creepy. They’re…moving…on THEIR OWN!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 12/06/2004 2:00 AM

This Santa tea light candle thing. I played with it every year. When youlight the candle it looks like Santa is staning in front of a lit fireplace.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 12/06/2004 2:34 AM

My most fantastical ornamentation has got to be good ole Travis the Singing Trout. Though I was initially frightened by this singing denizen of the deep, he now hangs proudly for all to see and fear. Mother-in-laws are pretty crappy, but sometimes they accidentally stumble onto the greatest of things.

Chestnuts roasted by kentdog @ 12/06/2004 2:47 AM

My favorite decoration is probably this Gingerbread Man that I made way back in 1st grade or somewhere around there. For some reason I kept licking him, thinking that maybe he’d taste better the next time.. or the time after that.

And 10 bucks says that Mare summons bursts of pure plasmatic energy in her fists and shoots them out of her fingertips like bullets by the time this Advent is over with.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 12/06/2004 6:32 AM

Swear to God, one year I took this little fuzzy jack-o-lantern thing a resteraunt was giving away at Halloween, stuck a hook in it, and hung it on the tree. For several years, it adorned our Xmas tree, and my mom never once tried to argue with me.

Just because its Xmas doesn’t mean you should forget the spirit of Halloween, I guess. Or maybe it was my tribute to Tim Burton.

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 12/06/2004 7:50 AM

My favorite holiday decoration is a porcelain doll that my great-grandmother gave me shortly before she died, when I was litte. I used to collect china dolls when I was a kid, until my younger brother (I’m talking to YOU FROSTOR)broke them all.This was the only one that survived.

It originally had nothing to do with Christmas, but somewhere along the line, my mom started using it as a tree-topper, I guess because she had a white dress, and could be construed as angelic. After Christmas was over every year I’d ask my mom if I could have the doll back and she wouldn’t let me have it, fearing I’d break it, so she packed it away with the Christmas stuff.

So when I moved into my own place, I asked my mom if I could finally have the doll back, and like 2 years later, she finally gave it to me. It’s a little the worse for wear. Her hair is kind of knotted and her dress has a lot of pitch on it, but it’s still my favorite part of Christmas, putting that damn doll on top of the tree every year.

Sorry this wasn’t more funny… :)

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 12/06/2004 9:17 AM

Christmas Cobwebs, my own design. Red and Green "cobwabs," just like the regular fake cobwebs you put up on Halloween

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 12/06/2004 9:58 AM

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