Here's a classic:
My wife used to have an old Santa doll that her Grandmother used to have as a child. It was given to her as a gift and she cherished it to no end. Sometime before we got married and she lived at home, she had the Santa doll out as a decoration one Christmas and it tragically fell behind a radiator. When they discovered it (probably from the odor of burning plastic), the poor Santa's plastic face had melted. Still, my wife cherished this doll, and
still put it out with all the other decorations every Christmas. I would tease her to no end about it....the doll was just not fit for public display. I finally convinced her to throw it away after our kids seemed scared of it.
