Most unusual Christmas decoration in your home

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I thought we might get some chuckles out of sharing our unique Christmas decorations. I can’t be the only one!

Funniest thing we have: DH and I are pretty big Simpsons fans, so one of his friends gave him a “Santa” Homer who is stuck in a chimney. When you push the button, he tries to get out and says various quotes like, “Lisa? Bring Daddy his Jaws of Life!”, and “No Marge, a fire would not be delightful right now!”

Not very Christian of us…but it makes me laugh so I put it out!

Anyone else?
 
Smoking Santa.

He was a gift from my MIL, a statue of Santa, inside you put a cone of incense and the smoke comes out of Santa’s pipe.

I love it!
 
LOL–that’s cute kage.
We have a stuffed cloth wreath that has a moosehead on it, like Bullwinkle or something…I think a neighbor years ago bought it for the kids, but my kids love this thing, and won’t allow me to get rid of it. 🙂 I think it looks awful…and they always want to hang it on the front door. Uh, not this year kids. lol
 
It’s kind of a toss-up:
  • Stuffed frogs in winter garb that ribet Jingle Bells.
  • A reindeer in toe shoes and a tutu.
  • The cat plate with the cat choir forming a Christmas tree.
 
I’m one of those people who collects the Star Trek ornaments from Hallmark, so when I put up a tree expect to see various Enterprises, Worf figurines, etc.

Also, expect to see hockey-related ornaments.
 
Norseman82 said:
I’m one of those people who collects the Star Trek ornaments from Hallmark, so when I put up a tree expect to see various Enterprises, Worf figurines, etc.

Also, expect to see hockey-related ornaments.
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DUDE! that was be so awesome!
 
I’m making my dining table centerpiece from birch limbs from our yard.

It will be a birch candleabra with tealights, like this , sort of. Mine are prettier birch logs and I will use red tea lights for Christmas cheer. I’ll also get some red berries out of the yard and some evergreen boughs. I think it will be pretty.

Got a new spade bit for the drill and everything just to make them!
 
OutinChgoburbs said:
  • Stuffed frogs in winter garb that ribet Jingle Bells.
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They don’t play off each other, do they? My mom has a set that only “ribbets” when they are in close proximity to each other. They kind of trade off… So, one starts the song, ribbets a few times, and the other ribbets back, and they do this back and forth until the song ends. The whole time, they’re moving their heads up and down.
 
MIL gave us a teddy bear dressed in red plaid and a santa hat who plays the drums when you turn him on (until the battery mercifully runs out) guess she also struggles with what to buy for gifts.

also have a sink stopper where the handle is a Christmas tree, we actually used it until the whole thing broke

as kids we had a nice crib set, but added to the scene with plastic buildings and props from the model railroad set, all across the mantel and all table tops. To teach the proper liturgical timing of the story, my mom had us move Mary and Joseph a bit closer to the stable each day in Advent, then start moving the Wise Men on Christmas day so they arrived on Epiphany. My grandma sent us some souvenirs from a tour she took to Egypt and the Holy Land. One was a camel made of leather, saddle and all trimmed in red and gold silk, and his stuffing was sand. We know this because after a few years of trekking from the dining room to the stable on the living room mantel, he started to leak. Mind you he was not in scale (although the rest of the crib set amazingly was not in HO scale either), and roughly the size of a T Rex compared to the other plaster camels and sheep. So the trail of the 3 kings was marked by desert sand for several years, until he completely disintegrated. So the floppy leather came made a great addition to Bethlehem’s mainstreet that included a general store, newspaper office, livery stable, train station, several victorian houses, a plastic church with a steeple, and so forth.
 
i have a purple christmas tree.

my great aunt made lots of christmas gifts in her day. one of them was a green felt toilet lid cover with santa’s face on the top. when you opened the lid, santa was covering his eyes.
 
bluerose said:
Where can I get one of those???
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The Franklin Mint or eBay. The cat looking annoyed, second from the left on the bottom row, next to the cat snowman, looks like our cat, Pooh.

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Truly_Beloved said:
They don’t play off each other, do they? My mom has a set that only “ribbets” when they are in close proximity to each other. They kind of trade off… So, one starts the song, ribbets a few times, and the other ribbets back, and they do this back and forth until the song ends. The whole time, they’re moving their heads up and down.
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They are made like sock monkeys, only out of green socks. There are three of them, because I picked them up on after-Christmas clearance several years ago. We have to press their stomachs to make them work, BUT the minute they come out of the box, the girls start squeezing frog tummies.

I think so far, puzzleannie’s sink stopper wins. We also have an out-of-scale camel, who can hold ALL the wisemen. But he was made in the USA, and he’s plush.
 
I have an electronic Santa who climbs a gold chain (presumably leading him up and down an imaginary chimney) while Christmas lights inside him twinkle, giving him a sickly red glow, and while Christmas tunes play at extremely loud, tinny volumes. He was a gift. Since I don’t ever have guests at my apartment, I’m considering mailing him to someone who can display him with pride (or perhaps disbelief) to their entire family, and where he can be the tackiest decoration in the house, rather than the only decoration. :rolleyes:
 
dconklin said:
We have a pickle ornament.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, cucumbers in winter were considered luxuries. They were pickled and served at Christmas. Also, Germans, who made most of the glass ornaments, considered the pickle lucky. They made pickle ornaments, but most of them stayed in Germany. When Germans immigrated to the US, they brought their precious ornaments with them- including the pickles.

I retrieved this information from the Time-Life Book of Christmas.
 
We have lots of Christmas trees, the one in our office just has sports ornaments on it, mostly baseball players.

I have little figurines of the characters from the movie, The year without a Santa Claus

We have two Veggie Tale’s Nativity sets. The one, baby Jesus is a little pea in a red wagon. The other He is a little carrot with a pacifier.

We have an ornament of the leg lamp for “A Christmas Story”

A singing Scooby Doo, he sings jingle bells
 
We have a 2 foot plastic Santa and his beard has been painted black by magic marker. It is a relic from DW’s work. Every year the IT department plays jokes with each other and the black bearded Santa arrives in some odd way.

Last year it arrived at DW’s office by being duct tapped to her PC monitor. They had to use at least a roll and a half of duct tape. That was revenge for her duct taping him to another guy’s car windshield the year before.

We’ve kept it for a year and the plot to send him to one of her co-workers is under foot. There’s a new guy in her office that hasn’t been in on the tradition yet. 🙂
 
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