You might think that a Christmas Tree candle would be scented, perhaps with fragrant pine or boughs of holly. We’ll never know.īut what really sealed the deal was the smell. Maybe this had been a happy little wax tree at some point and undue exposure to heat had turned it into an agent of evil. The smile was small and mean, but the eyes were narrowed with all the malicious energy a wax Christmas tree could muster-which turned out to be quite a lot. One, the tree had a face-a face possessed by pure evil. That’s not terrible, right?Įxcept for a few key things. That year, I received the mother of all Terrible Christmas gifts. And that was my big gift that year.īut one year, she outdid herself in the awful-gift department. She gave me a bowl of plastic fruit that was supposed to look like wood. Sometimes this was just odd-one year, I got a bowl of genuine imitation wooden fruit.
Several years back, I had a relative (who shall remain nameless) who was well-known not only for the cheapness of her gifts (she would buy things at 90% off and then carefully peel off the layers of clearance stickers and leave the original price sticker intact to make you think she’d really spent full price on the gift), but for the overall awfulness of them. I got pretty lucky this year-my husband went a little nuts with the online shopping, but I’m not complaining!īut not all of us have emerged unscathed. The Christmas season has come and gone again, leaving several garbage bags full of wrapping paper and those irritating zip-ties that all children’s toys must now be belted into cardboard with.
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